Steering and Suspension
Engines
Electrical
Brakes
General Knowledge and safety
100
The alignment angle shown here:
What is caster?
100
Intake. Compression, Power, and Exhaust.
What are the four strokes of an engine?
100
You would set this device on 20V DC to measure a car battery's volts.
What is a Multimeter?
100
If this happens to your brakes, the pedal will be low and spongy feeling.
What is Getting air in the brake system?
100
You should Know the location of these in any shop in case of fire.
What are fire extinguishers?
200
Checking all the steering linkage, joints and bushings for looseness before performing an alignment.
What is a Pre-Alignment Check?
200
These seal compression in the cylinder. and oil out of the cylinder, and are mounted on the pistons.
What are piston rings?
200
In this type of circuit, if a wire is broken at any point all the lights will stop working.
What is a series circuit?
200
This can make a hissing sound from under the dash when the pedal is pushed, and make the Pedal hard to push.
What is a bad brake booster?
200
Using one of these when working on a car lifted by a floor jack is important for safety.
What is a Jack stand?
300
Leaf springs, torsion bars, and coil springs.
What are common types of suspension springs on vehicles?
300
It controls how much and when the valves open.
What is the camshaft?
300
This could cause a good bulb to be dim, or not work at all.
What is high resistance at the ground?
300
These help cool the brake rotors, and on high performance rotors there are also slots machined and holes drilled to help aid in cooling.
What are fins between the two sides of a brake rotor?
300
You should wear this item when grinding, working under a car, basically at all times in the shop.
What is protective eyewear, or safety glasses?
400
The alignment angle that measures your tires pointed in, or out.
What is Toe?
400
These help to prevent an engine block from cracking should water in the cooling passages freeze and expand?
What are Freeze plug/expansion plugs?
400
This has six 2.1 volt cells and powers the cars electrical system.
What is a battery?
400
These have shoes that press on the inside of a rotating cylinder to stop the car.
What are drum brakes?
400
If this happens, try the next smaller size, or try Metric/standard size, whichever is different.
What do you do if a socket fits too loosely on a bolt?
500
The alignment angle that will wear out the edge of your tire, because it is leaned in, or out, sideways at the top.
What is Camber?
500
This is the stroke when the spark plug fires, creating an explosion of the air fuel mixture.
What is the Power stroke?
500
This law can calculate the resistance, current, or voltage of a circuit using its formulas.
What is Ohm's Law?
500
This means that brake fluid absorbs water from the air.
What is hygroscopic?
500
What is .125 (125 thousandths)?