Areyour Brake Relines up to Nissan & Infiniti Standards?
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Nissan-TechNews-Fall-2008_MarchStarTuned2005 6/30/15 4:10 PM Page 1 October 2008 | Volume 1 | Issue 1 Are Your Brake Relines Up to Nissan & Infiniti Standards? | Nissan & Infiniti Head Gasket Replacement | How’s That Fuel Pump? | Nissan & Infiniti Ignition Service | Performance | Parts Department | Dealer Listings Nissan-TechNews-Fall-2008_MarchStarTuned2005 6/30/15 4:10 PM Page 2 Nissan-TechNews-Fall-2008_MarchStarTuned2005 6/30/15 4:10 PM Page 3 Nissan & Infiniti Tech News | October 2008 | Volume 1 Issue 1 ® Nissan & Infiniti Tech News is a publication of Nissan North America. No part of this newslet- ter may be reproduced without the express writ- |Contents ten permission of Nissan North America. Group Publisher Features Christopher M. Ayers Jr. [email protected] 6 Are your brake relines Senior Project Director Tamra Ayers up to Nissan & Infiniti [email protected] standards? Editorial Director What you need to know about how pad Bob Freudenberger and rotor quality and proper procedures [email protected] will assure that your customers stay happy. Managing Editor Chip Keen 10 Nissan & Infiniti Head [email protected] Gasket Replacement Contributing Editor Is it a blown gasket? Or, something else? Kerry Jonsson Here’s how to be sure, and procedures that [email protected] will avoid comebacks. Art Director Jef Sturm [email protected] 16 How’s that Fuel Pump? Nissan North America One of the first tests that should be Project Manager performed during a no-start or drivability Steve Wagner diagnosis is for proper fuel pressure. [email protected] But there’s more than just pressure to Nissan North America think about. Technical Content Advisor Edwin J. 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If a condition is described, DO NOT assume that | 20 Nissan & Infiniti Parts Department a topic covered in these pages automatically applies to your vehicle or that your vehicle has that condition. | 26 Nissan & Infiniti Dealer Listings Nissan & Infiniti Tech News | 3 Nissan-TechNews-Fall-2008_MarchStarTuned2005 6/30/15 4:10 PM Page 4 Nissan &?Infiniti Tech News ® | Welcome to Nissan & Infiniti TechNews A Valuable of poor forecasting: “With over 50 One more thing: Given the Information foreign car makers already on sale complexities of service on modern here, the Japanese auto industry high-tech Nissan and Infiniti vehi- Resource — isn’t likely to carve out a big slice of cles, it no longer makes any sense the U.S. market for itself.” to risk using anything but the very Free! The company’s reputation in best parts, namely the genuine North America grew steadily there- Nissan &?Infiniti products available Welcome to the premier issue after. 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The To say that Nissans & Infinitis company’s history can be traced to have become fabulously more 1911 when Masuijiro Hashimoto, sophisticated since those early an American trained engineer, days is quite an understatement.. founded the Kwaishinsha Motor Car As with all other carmakers that do Works, which evolved into the huge business in this country, the sim- manufacturing concern we know plicity we loved so well is gone, today as Nissan. Its first car was the supplanted by amazingly complex 10 horsepower DAT (an acronym technology. Hence the need for from the first letters of the partners’ accurate, specific information on family names, Den, Aoyama, and how to maintain, diagnose and Takeuchi) runabout, but the compa- repair late model Nissan and Infiniti ny’s small, rugged trucks made up vehicles. One good source for this most of its production. 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That means O.E. quality from your Nissan dealer. 6 | Nissan & Infiniti Tech News Nissan-TechNews-Fall-2008_MarchStarTuned2005 6/30/15 4:10 PM Page 7 ® For all truly professional • Glazed pads or rotors "We use O.E. pad applications in every- shops, avoiding customer • Inadequate piston retraction comebacks is a top priority when causing dragging (which also thing we service. Why? It minimizes or selecting replacement brake pads leads to glazing) eliminates noise problems. There may and rotors. One of the leading • Misaligned caliper or bracket causes of comebacks is brake be warranty issues to consider as well. squeal, something the use of gen- • Calipers with bent floating pins, We want to do the best job possible uine Nissan or Infiniti parts mini- or inadequate lubrication of the mizes while providing effective pins, not allowing the caliper to for our customers. " properly float braking performance. Aftermarket Scott Destemper, Alpine Automotive pads may look like a bargain, and • Lack of a bevel on the pad may even stop the car adequately, leading edge but few are extensively tested for a a certain percentage of the other, specific Nissan or Infiniti model. In • Proper application of grease at specific locations and some amount of several other the “black magic” world of brake different materials. friction recipes, rotor materials, and What’s really in brake pad materi- caliper design, a lack of part-to- | What are they al? There may be Kevlar, steel, or vehicle matching will often result in actually made of? fiberglass strands as a replacement brake noise that’s objectionable to for asbestos fibers, resin to glue it a significant percentage of your The quest for the ideal friction all together, iron, brass or copper customers along with premature material has been sort of like a dust, particles or strands, lubricants, wear, not to mention poor perform- drawn out version of Thomas some form of clay (if the pads are ance. Here’s why. Edison's search for a suitable light ceramic), and other “top secret” The trick with brake squeal often bulb filament. All kinds of things materials. There may be 15-20 isn’t actually eliminating it, but hav- have been tried for over a hundred different ingredients in all. The dif- ing it occur at a frequency that’s so years. The spoon brakes used on ferent materials perform differently. high human ears can’t hear it. The the first cars usually had wooden When Nissan/Infiniti brake engi- way this is done is by selecting blocks, but they were sometimes neers specify a certain formula for unique combinations of rotor mate- supplemented with a leather lining. a particular model, they have rial, pad material, shims, retainers, Band type brakes were either metal numerous goals in mind such as and lubricants. Even with all this, a to metal, or used wood or leather, exceptional stopping performance, set of brand new brakes properly too. The earliest drum stoppers long service life, low noise poten- installed and functioning may be (invented by Louis Renault in 1903) tial, as little dusting as possible, silent most of the time, but may had iron shoes against steel, then and rotor longevity.