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How To Replace Your Car’s Water Pump

By on July 8, 2011 in Car Maintenance

How To Replace Your Car’s Water Pump When your car’s water pump fails, your engine becomes exposed to overheating. The pump’s job is to circulate coolant from the radiator to the engine, and back to the radiator where absorbed heat is allowed to dissipate. If the component malfunctions, coolant will be unable to reach the [...]

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A Step-By-Step Guide For Replacing Your Car’s Fuel Pump

By on March 15, 2011 in Car Maintenance

A Step-By-Step Guide For Replacing Your Car’s Fuel Pump Your car’s fuel pump is responsible for creating sufficient pressure to push gasoline from the gas tank to the engine. When it fails, or begins to malfunction, your engine may not receive the fuel it needs to move your car. If the pump fails gradually, you’ll [...]

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What Goes Into Making A Modern Tire?

By on January 24, 2011 in Car Maintenance

What Goes Into Making A Modern Tire? Modern tires contain a lot of technology, but for the most part people never appreciate just what goes into a tire or how it does its job. For most people, they never think about their tires, rarely checking them for the correct tire pressure and taking them for [...]

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When The Time Comes To Replace Your Car’s Oil Filter

By on November 10, 2010 in Car Maintenance

Image via Wikipedia When The Time Comes To Replace Your Car’s Oil Filter A lot of drivers are unaware about the way oil enters their engines. They realize their engines require oil in order to perform effectively. They also realize that without it, the moving parts inside the assembly will suffer damage – sometimes, to [...]

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Factors That Cause Your Car’s Water Pump To Fail

By on August 26, 2010 in Car Maintenance, Car Tips

Factors That Cause Your Car’s Water Pump To Fail To understand why your water pump (WP) is an essential automotive component, it’s important to understand what takes place around your engine while you’re driving. The pistons housed inside the engine’s cylinders rise and fall thousands of times per minute. Each time this occurs, the air-fuel [...]

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