Showing posts with label Auto Repair & Maintenance Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auto Repair & Maintenance Tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

What make a Car, A Quality car!

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Sonnax

New Sonnax Website
Sonnax invented the original high capacity Powerglide 10-Clutch Drum more than a decade ago. Over the years, we have designed and manufactured a variety of innovative 10-clutch kits which make up our current product selection. Today we are excited to announce that we've made some phenomenal improvements and additions to expand this selection, providing racers with the absolute best in value and performance.
The most significant improvement is an additional .060" in piston travel to allow for greater clutch clearance and minimal wear, while also eliminating concerns of the piston seal coming out of the bore. View the table below to find the product that's right for you.







The above parts shown may not make any sense to you or you may bother to know. These parts are similar to your car parts. Your car also have similar parts in it. It may sound confusing but any automatic car have similar type of parts for shifting gears and when your car stops moving in D or R, it means the transmission parts have worn out, broken or faulty in side the transmission.

Do you really need to know. It depends! Some like it and some don't. Just like inside our body there are blood vessels, blood itself, muscles, bones, ligaments, brain, heart etc, cars have inside parts that work hard to get you going. 

Just like for us to move, we use our legs predominantly but we are least interested to know how and what inside body parts make us move. Similarly we have least interest in the interior car parts functionality and quality. Why Toyota has emerged as a successful brand in car industry because people believe in Toyota quality. Why, because these cars have good performance, least maintenance yet very reliable and affordable. What makes you believe in Toyota is above said reason and in nut shell your good experience with these cars. Similarly other brands have good cars which people have good experience with. 

But certainly what Toyota really rely on to maintain there reputation and remain in forefront of the industry. Certainly the management, the quality control, the research work, production quality and efficiency, quality parts, quality assembly and quality parts design department. Even though everything is crucial to push out quality cars for Toyota but our point of interest is Quality Parts Design Department.

The car is a combination of assembly of various parts together. These part's material quality and parts production quality produces a Quality part. But just like a piece of paper is so flimsy and without much strength but if same piece of paper is folded in certain pattern together it can produce great strength. So how to design the part is most crucial.
As you can see in highlighted text, Sonnax is talking about increasing the piston travel by .06", big deal!
Yes it is for design engineers because this little extra travel can give them more choices to increase the power handling of the part and better functionality which could relate to better shift quality for smooth shifting of gears and better fuel efficiency and may be more power.

Where as a driver we look at comfort, performance, safety, reliability, fuel economy and more power in our car, the design engineers make it happen by choosing the combination of quality materials, state of art design of parts and state of art machines that produce parts. We talk about how fast our car can run, they talk about fractions of mm or inches to accomplish that extra edge of more power and speed in any given car.

Maintenance of your vehicle is the best favor you can do to your car for keeping it in factory condition for longest possible time with least repair. For that read your vehicle maintenance booklet which advise you about various maintenance requirements of different parts after driving it for X amount of kilometers. Like some Honda and other brands need to change timing belt at certain mileage, without it there are good chances that belt may break which in turn may break your vehicle engine parts. Similarly easiest but most crucial is changing engine oil in time and flushing radiator coolant at certain point. There are lot more involved in any car for maintenance and one must refer to maintenance chart or table to keep track of it. Happy driving.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Auto Repair & Maintenance Tips: Good Brakes and Safe Braking Tipshttp://surrey-auto-mall.blogspot.com/

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Good Brakes and Safe Braking Tips:



Brake fail of a moving vehicle is a nightmare but it has less chances but Poor braking is quite a possibility and a major contributor to accidents.

What is involved in safe braking:

1   Good Tires
2   Good Brakes
3   Good Wheel Alignment

I like cover Good Brakes in detail: Components involved in Safe/Good Brakes:

1   Good Brake Pads/Shoes
2   Good Rotors/ Drums
3   Good Calipers/ Wheel Cylinders
4   Good Brake Booster without Vacuum Leak
5   Good Brake Master Cylinder
6   Good Brake Lines & proportionate valve
7   Good Brake Pedal without excessive play
8   Good ABS pump/motor assembly
9   Workable Breather Valves
10 Proper level of Brake Fluid of good quality
11 Proper release of air from brake master cylinder/caliper pistons/wheel cylinders and brake lines
12 Any amount of air bubbles in brake lines reduce braking capacity
13 A run out in rotors or drums also reduce braking capacity
14 If vehicle equipped with rear brake drums: Periodic cleaning and brake adjustment is necessary to                maintain good braking power
15  Proper lubrication of caliper pins and free of rust is utmost important for good braking (Very important         for front brakes)
16  Quality of Brake Pads material also makes big difference for proper braking and long-lasting brakes.

17   All vacuum lines, hydraulic lines, electrical wiring and devices and sensors, mechanical wires for hand brakes and all mechanical components involved must be in good working condition without any wear tear and rust etc.

These are most crucial factors involved in braking and proper functioning of ABS system is very important as well. If ABS warning light is ON, it means anti-lock brake system is non-functional and unsafe.

Regardless of Good Brakes and Good Tires, never under-estimate the Power of Safe Driving that includes safe speed and safe distance from front vehicles.

Note: This article is for general knowledge and not a proper procedure for repair and maintenance of braking system. For replacing any component please follow factory manual or third party service manuals. It is always advisable to utilize services of a Repair Shop.