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Saturday Mechanic: Repairing A Flat Tire
Popular Mechanics — A tubeless tire puncture can be properly repaired only by breaking the tire off the rim and pulling a stem-type patch through the tread from the inside. There's rarely a more welcome sight than the inside of a warm garage late at night, as your ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: How To Charge Your Battery
Popular Mechanics — Spring has come and gone. With the yard finally whipped into shape, you've managed to schedule a long weekend up in the mountains--just you and your family and a few days of a lot of nothing. The motorhome starts with the aid of jumper cables, ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Passing An Emissions Inspection
Popular Mechanics — Your car is running beautifully, and all seems right with the world. You have no trepidation whatsoever when the time comes to take it in for your state or local emissions test. After an interminable wait in line at the inspection station, a ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Repairing Power Windows
Popular Mechanics — Check out that sky--black as the inside of a cow. A big thunderstorm is rolling this way for sure. Better run out and close the car windows. Of course, that's exactly when it happens, as was laid down in the beginning when we humans made our ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic - Search Engines
Popular Mechanics — Your temperature gauge inches up toward the danger point. Simultaneously, traffic slows ever closer to 0 mph--without ever quite reaching it--as the rush hour deepens. There's no air moving through your radiator, and any that does is too damned ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Turn Up Your Heater
Popular Mechanics — It's colder than a witch's belt buckle outside, so you gulp down some hot coffee, dash to the car, start the engine and run inside. Although you know engine idling isn't a great way to warm up an engine, comfort counts most on a cold morning. ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Fixing Rough Shifting
Popular Mechanics — Adjusting the throttle-valve (T-V) cable is generally straightforward. Some cables (typically GM's) use a pushbutton-style adjuster at the upper end of the cable. Others have a more conventional adjuster, requiring two open-end wrenches at the ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Electric Cooling Fan Problems
Popular Mechanics — It's a really, really warm day, but the temperature gauge reads normal and the a/c is blowing out a lot of cold air, so who cares? Then the traffic suddenly slows to a crawl and doesn't get any better. Gradually the temperature gauge needle ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Repairing Windshields
Popular Mechanics — It's a fine day. The sun is shining, traffic is moving along smartly and you haven't a care in the world. Whack! Until now, that is. Now there's a rosebud the size of a quarter smack in the windshield. What's worse, it's directly in y ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Servicing Brake Discs
Popular Mechanics — Pull the wheels for a closeup look. With the wheels off, you can inspect the rotor-lining contact surfaces. First look for a crack that goes all the way through a vented rotoror at least through one of its two surfaces. A cracked rotor causes ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic December 2001: Aligning Body Panels
Popular Mechanics — Unpacking the car after a vacation weekend is never fun. Less fun, even, than cramming the family's idea of "just enough clothes for a summer's weekend at the lake" into a modern compact car's diminutive trunk. Were those ski parkas ...More…
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Saturday Mechanic: Replacing A Battery
Popular Mechanics — As you stumble outside, you realize the absurdity of it all. Now, you know that there is no woodpecker in your car, or anywhere nearby. The pecking sound your significant other has identified as avian in origin is really just your starter ...More…