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Automotive Technical Tips Forum

Professional automotive forum primarily for the submission of time-saving technical tips, vehicle repair procedures, helpful hints, etc. This forum is strictly oriented towards sharing helpful tips, and not for asking technical questions, as you might find in the Technical Discussion Forum. This forum is for experienced automotive repair professionals only, membership required.

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Recent Automotive Discussions in the Automotive Technical Tips Forum

Holding a floppy nut or bolt to a wrench
11/03/2024 in the Technical Tips Forum
Hello IATN folks, We've all had those "blind spot" or "in close quarters" nuts and small bolts that would constantly drop out of a box end or an open-end wrench. Here is an easy solution: Tape or adhesive. Example: I witnessed this problem with a young te...
Present Day Professional Parasitic Draw Testing
10/25/2024 in the Technical Tips Forum
Present Day Professional Parasitic Draw Testing Even if you are already extremely proficient with parasitic draw testing, there may be some misconceptions, or other ways to accomplish such testing. The following video contains very valuable ways to accomp...
PUMKIN CARVING
10/23/2024 in the Technical Tips Forum
Just got through carving up our home grown pumpkin with my Grand Daughter who is ten years old. She drew a rather intricate design that would have taken hours with multiple cutting instruments required. I used my Dremel with a rotozip bit designed for cut...
Roll pin installation
10/22/2024 in the Technical Tips Forum
I was putting a shifter position sensor in a 2016 F150 yesterday (it's inside the trans) and had to get the roll pin out and back in that holds the sensor to the manual valve. Trying to hold the pin and drive it with part of the valve body and the exhaust...
Ford Y block engine oil pick up tube
10/07/2024 in the Technical Tips Forum
These old monsters (272,292, 312) have an external mount oil pump with a pick up tube that comes through the side of the pan to the pump. It had a rather odd shaped rubberish grommet that compresses to the tube, similar to any compression fitting. The tub...

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