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Once a month we sit down and talk through what’s been happening in the workshop. The interesting jobs, the problems we’ve solved, and the tips worth passing on. Looking back over this month, one thread ties nearly all of it together. We don’t just fix what’s broken,...

We’ve got a couple of engine rebuilds in the workshop at the moment, and both came in badly corroded on the inside. The cause was the same for each. They’d been run on water instead of coolant. These are stationary engines that run constantly at high RPM, and they...

We recently loaded up and headed out to a customer’s yard to run our driver training on site, on their own trucks. There were seven drivers, so Scott and I split the group. Scott took them through the prime mover and the trailers, and I worked through the little...

That was all the driver said. In fact, when the truck came into the workshop, he didn't mention it at all, so the overheating was news to us. He'd babied it back, kept the revs down, and got it home without doing any damage. Good call on his part, because that's...

Webbie's Mechanical is running car-care days for women and teens, plus hands-on truck pre-start training — at our workshop and out at your yard. Here's what's on in August and how to join. You want to feel confident with your own vehicle There's a particular kind of...

A Mercedes 20,000km overdue for a service turned a simple wheel bearing into a bent spindle and a six-week parts wait. Here's why servicing on time is the cheapest repair you'll ever do. You just want to get home from the run A driver was on his way back from...

Take a walk across the Webbie's Mechanical floor. Three mechanics, three very different jobs — and the same standard on every one. Here's what a proper workshop day looks like. You just want it done right When your truck or your vehicle goes into a workshop, you're...

Scott and Jade walk you through this month in the workshop: a head gasket job that became a full rebuild, a runaway Hino, a bent spindle from a late service, a cracked Scania water pump, and our August courses. You want your truck fixed once, and fixed right Every...

A coolant leak with three faults hiding behind it — how we worked it back "I'm losing coolant and I don't know where it's going" This is a pretty standard request — "I'm losing coolant, no idea where it's going." A customer rolled in with exactly that. He also...