The longer I’m around, the more I realize the importance of the basics. How many times have you tackled a complex vehicle issue, only to find the problem was...
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It’s late Friday afternoon and you’ve already had a long, stressful, rollercoaster of a week. Your shop foreman just walked into your office to tell you...
Change happens even when you don’t realize it. Change in this industry is happening quickly and that trend will continue for several years to come. All too...
In 2013, when I presented the Honda 6-speed at Expo in Washington, D.C., I speculated that Honda was pushing their traditional helical gearset design to the...
It’s been a few weeks since the 2018 TCRA event, the preeminent training and meeting program for the torque converter professional. This year’s event took...
This past March 24th, ATRA’s Dennis Madden and Keith Clark were on hand at the Mister Transmission annual convention. Mister Transmission is a strictly...
In case you haven’t noticed, many automotive manufacturers now offer transmissions with eight to ten different gear ratios. This has been a major change in...
There are many different types of communication protocols in today’s vehicles, depending on the manufacturer and system. These include CAN, Flex CAN, UART...
It’s time once again to mark your calendar and save the date for Expo 2018. This year marks the return to Bally’s: Expo will be October 31st through...
For decades, we’ve seen mass airflow sensors (MAF) on the vehicles that we service every day. Most technicians are aware of the function of the MAF sensor...
Introduced in late 2005 to become the 6-speed replacement for the 4-speed transmissions such as the 4L60E, the 6L presented several new challenges. The early...
Last year, TCRA chose the warmth of Southern California for its annual seminar program; this year, they’ve moved across the country to another notoriously...
The idea that the transmission industry is changing is hardly a new one. And it’s certainly an observation that everyone involved would agree with.
Nowhere...
Solenoids have come a long way since the early, on/off styles. From regulation to clutch control, these solenoids are becoming not only the norm, but every...
Honda/Acura transmissions have evolved quite a bit over the past couple decades. When looking back to the five-speed transmissions from the early 2000s...
The first one-way clutch was designed in 1869 for use in a bicycle. In the years since, we have seen this technology advance and now one-way clutches are used...
2A lot of technicians just aren’t comfortable with the newer format that many manufacturers use to display wiring information on their a schematics. It...
