My name is Carol. I'm 76 years old and I split my time between Louisiana and Arizona. I travel the miles between them in a 2012 black Volvo S60 with a little terrier named Thumper riding shotgun. I write

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Easiest rebuild of my life, well I suppose it is still a rebuild, I do exactly the same I would for a completely burned out transmission except for changing

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Confusing DSG! Well we got this one of a kind problem! Actually isn't a weird problem at all we just had to scratch our heads at it a couple of times!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Yellow Alfa Romeo! Well yeah this isn't going to be the biggest and most baddest post ever! Nor is this going to be a in depth technical post either!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Ugly Beast! Now this is something I fancy! Mind you I should not call it ugly! But damn is this an ugly transmission! The idea of it is just wonky! BUT!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Small Leak Huge Work! Now more than often that is the case so I don't even know why I want to bitch about that fact! But I am going to! We techies always

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Hard Leak! Well this is something not exactly in our ball park but let's try and run with it! We rebuilt a transmission on this one some time ago and

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! My Favourite One! Now this goes without a doubt! This must be my all time favourite transmission to do teardowns on! Now with that said this was one hell

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! It's More A Caravelle... But meh, these things are all the same! We just fitted one into a Audi Q3 so they really are all the same! Now be be very honest

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Finally What We've Been Waiting For! Okay honestly we've not waiting that long for it, it did arrive yesterday already! But we've been busy with a bunch

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Finally The Jag Build! Now remember when I tore down that absolute wreck of a transmission that is from a Jaguar the other day! Now funny story, turns out

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! We've Been Winging It For Too Long! So here's the story! Yeahp! We've been winging it for far too long from a workshop manual and doing that makes one lazy

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! First Glance Is Bad! Well when I pulled this one open I told bossman sheeessshhh I don't think we can save this one! But of-course we still had to do a teardown

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! This Is Serious Crazyness! A few months back we booked in this car and well to be honest we don't even want to work on it anymore! The car is a huge mess

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Weirdest Find! Now there really isn't much to say about this one other than the fact that it's an odd little thing to find! Of-course they once were

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Critical Part Of Not Adhering! Well I don't think it's a matter of adhering I think it's more a matter of people don't always understand how things work

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Here We Go Again! Of-course! Okay really we do a lot of Ford Ranger transmissions, not the only ones but we do a lot of them! Now here's the thing! We might

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! A Pre Section. Well as most would know it has been some time since my last legitly technical post, the reason for this is simple! Things have been hella

Well Hello There Horsepower Lovers!! Something I rediscovered lately was the timelapse function in my camera on my mobile phone, or rather this one is a Hyperlapse. Not exactly sure what the difference

Well Hello There Horsepower Lovers!! A Nice Little T-Cross! Yeah that's what I thought until I started tearing this thing down! The client drove from another town and got left beside the road with a broken