New to automobile technology? Start here.

[rezzle]

We seem to attract a lot of young inexperienced car enthusiasts who require guidance regarding even the simplest of mechanical and automotive thoery.


To that end I have been surfing the net off and on for weeks looking for some good info for folks who are totally green and this is what I have come up with so far.

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There are three things pertaining to cars that are extremely useful here.

IF YOU DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT CARS READ THE SAFETY STUFF FIRST!!!

The fellow who wrote this web is quite witty and works on cars himself. He seems to have what could be called 'particular first hand experiences' regarding automobile safety. I have also had some of those experiences and suggest anyone reading take heed.

First the Safety link
http://mypage.direct.ca/k/kdomries/safety.html

The Ten Commandments
http://mypage.direct.ca/k/kdomries/commandments.html

Information on how brakes work. This guy explains it exactly how I do.
http://mypage.direct.ca/k/kdomries/brakes.html

The home page
http://mypage.direct.ca/k/kdomries/index.html

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Engine and how a four stroke engine works including some very will done animations. Bookmark this page and go here after reading the ten commandments above, then plan on spending a good 3 hours reading and watching the animations to absorb exactly how a car engine works.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm

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Engine electrical system and electrical theory. Extremely good pages here teaching the basics of electricity and elecronics as they apply to automobiles. It also goes indepth to explain almost all of the electrical subsystems of Toyota car engines. Depending on the level of knowlegde you wish to obtain plan on 15 minutes to 30 hours.

http://www.autoshop101.com/autoshop15.html

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I consider this the best E-mag on the web. The link here is the technical article reference section. Just pick a topic. Each topic is about 3-5 minutes of reading and there are a couple of hundred topics.

http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jk/index.htm

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One of our very own has started to produce a website with some merit. He covers some of the basics very well. Congrats Shaun.

http://geocities.com/nuahs_cx/maint.html

[TRDragoon]

i nominate this thread to be a sticky

[Nick]

seconded

[Chris Corolla S]

wHOA I third that! good stuff, I have only read about half of these links, so I need to bone-up myslef

[RedruM]

haven't read any yet but make it a sticky please so i can read it anytime

[Phi]

stop your bickering! I added it to the the "ulitmate sticky". Now shut up!:p

[Dredd2099]

thank you sir

[RedruM]

finally phi is doin something usefull around here

[boroEF]

whoa my site is on that list...i'm going to cry from the happiness

[RedruM]

congrats shaun....