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Your radiator is one of the engine’s unsung heroes. It’s responsible for essential heat exchange functions in your car’s cooling system. Working in tandem with the thermostat and water pump, the thermostat plays an important role in distributing coolant and also maintaining coolant temperature. And when the radiator doesn’t work, things heat up in a…

     Spider Injector Replacement The spider injector can be a problem for drivers of GMC trucks. Depending on your situation you may need to do a full spider injector replacement or just replace individual injectors. Either way, this is a general overview of how to change spider injectors and how to replace spider injectors so…

If your catalytic converter is going bad, that’s bad for the environment. And depending on where you live, that failing catalytic converter just might keep you off the road; a failed emission test usually means that you’ll have to get the problem fixed before you can get your car back on the road again. So…

How To Buy an Alternator   An alternator, one of the critical components of your vehicle, can leave you stranded on the roads, if it fails completely. The alternator usually fails in stages and it can be detected by a few symptoms. Maintaining the alternator to work up to its standard is highly necessary so…

How to Buy a Fuel Injector   The fuel injector, as the name implies, injects fuel into the engine at the right time to ensure optimal efficiency. Older automobiles had carburetors that mixed the air and fuel before delivering it to the engine. Fuel injectors replaced carburetors in the 1990s, and have since evolved into…

Introduction: The steering gearbox is a unit that can be found on most of the larger duty trucks and older cars. Gearboxes are used in cases where the weight of the vehicle would be too much for a rack and pinion to handle. As the materials that are used in the construction of vehicles have…

Introduction: The Oxygen Sensor, a part of the emission control system, is used to estimate the ratio of air and fuel in the engine's combustion chamber. The amount of oxygen in the exhaust is measured by the sensor and sent to the engine control unit (ECU). The ECU makes adjustments in the fuel injection to…