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Advanced Brake Diagnostic Tools Fresno CA

Brake technicians are only as good as the tools they use. I have lived by this statement for a long time and it only makes sense, right? Well, what if I say the most important tool a brake technician has is his mind. The mind is a powerful tool when equipped with the right information, but can be a handicap when the information contained within is not accurate. It is my belief that the most significant challenge the brake technician faces is separating the fact from the fiction.

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Advanced Brake Diagnostic Tools

Brake technicians are only as good as the tools they use. I have lived by this statement for a long time and it only makes sense, right? Well, what if I say the most important tool a brake technician has is his mind. The mind is a powerful tool when equipped with the right information, but can be a handicap when the information contained within is not accurate. It is my belief that the most significant challenge the brake technician faces is separating the fact from the fiction. Unfortunately, our industry has more fiction than it does fact and this creates many of the problems we encounter (See Figure 1).

For the most part, technicians are self taught. Most of what we know comes from the shop floor or from other technicians. The result of this is that while most technicians know how to R & R a part, many of them don't know how those parts work. Much of what the average technician thinks they know about how the parts in a brake system work is based on fiction, not fact. Don't take what I'm saying the wrong way. I believe those of us in the automotive industry have all chosen an industry that doesn't do the best job training its people and this lack of knowledge is what creates many of our problems.

Figures 1-8

You might be wondering what's all this got to do with this month's topic? Well, none of the tools I am going to discuss will be of any use to you without a factual understanding of how the brake system and the components that comprise the system work. The in...

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