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The little part doing the biggest job Most drivers never give it a thought. The water pump sits up the front of your engine, quietly spinning. You only think about it the day it stops — and by then, it's already too late. A water pump's job is dead simple. Keep...

Stop the 2am phone calls — our new basic truck maintenance course for fleet drivers Meta description: Webbie's Mechanical is running a basic truck maintenance course for fleet drivers — pre-starts, fluid checks, leak spotting, kingpin play, bleeding fuel and more....

Every prime mover runs a fuel filter and a water separator. The fuel filter catches rust, dirt, algae and the brass shavings that show up when a fuel pump starts to wear. The water separator does exactly what it sounds like — separates water from your fuel before it...

Same leak, second time around A Volvo rolled into our Welshpool workshop the other day with a familiar complaint — oil dripping from the front of the engine. Nothing unusual about that on its own. What was unusual was that the customer had just paid another workshop...

Your engine is tired. It’s not pulling like it used to.It’s using oil, chewing through fuel, and you’ve been nursing it along hoping to get a bit more time out of it. But deep down, you already know. It’s rebuild time. So you book it in. We start by inspecting...

If you’ve spent any time in the trucking industry, you’ll know one thing is always true — good mechanics are hard to find. Most truckies have a story about booking their truck somewhere and waiting days before anyone even looks at it. Or chasing phone calls just to...

One big head — or eight little ones Have a look across our rebuild bay any given week and you'll spot two very different sights. One engine has a single, long cylinder head running the length of the block. The one sitting next to it has eight separate little heads —...

Valve lash is a tiny gap at the top of your engine. Set it wrong and the valves can drop into the piston. Here's what an overhead set actually does. A tiny gap. Massive consequences. An overhead set — call it a valve adjustment, call it a top set, call it whatever you...

Braking systems rely on air pressure to work effectively. So when you hear a hiss of air every time you press the brake pedal, it’s not something to ignore. That was the issue with a recent truck that came into the workshop. The Symptoms Hissing sound when braking Air...