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Explore practical resources across the SWAT library: books, videos, and articles built for professional technicians and shops.
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Books & Manuals
Structured diagnostic material from Brandon's published work — real testing, real data, real process.
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Video Library
Watch Brandon walk through diagnostic thinking, scan data, waveform analysis, and testing strategy.
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Articles & Notes
Practical diagnostic insights, field notes, and shop-focused guidance for working technicians.
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Diagnostic thinking you can return to.
Brandon's books give technicians structured ways to think through vehicle problems, scan data, waveform captures, testing strategy, and real-world diagnostic decisions.
A Streamlined Approach To Diagnostic Dilemmas
A practical framework for thinking through diagnostic problems, avoiding dead ends, and keeping the process moving.
Driveability From the Driver's Seat
A focused look at scan tool data, driveability strategy, and using data to make better diagnostic decisions.
Pressure Waveform Acquisition and Analysis from the Inside Out
A technical resource for pressure waveform acquisition, interpretation, and diagnostic application.
It Starts With A Spark
A practical diagnostic resource focused on ignition, spark, and analysis-driven testing.
Videos
Watch the diagnostic process in motion.
Use SWAT videos to see how Brandon explains problems, reviews data, and teaches practical diagnostic process.
Tech Tips
Tech Tips Short
Short, focused diagnostic walkthroughs, testing process, and real-world repair thinking.
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Wrench Tales
Wrench Tales
Instructional recaps of real technical support calls — scan data, waveforms, and diagnostic strategy.
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Mastering Diagnostics
Mastering Diagnostics
Tactics to increase accuracy, efficiency, and confidence in the bay — case studies and technical explanations.
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Articles & Notes
Short reads for sharper diagnostic thinking.
Brandon's published diagnostic articles covering scan data, case studies, testing strategy, communication faults, pressure waveforms, and real-world repair decisions.
Keeping a diagnostic journal
By Brandon Steckler
A diagnostic journal helps technicians track symptoms, tests, and results so patterns emerge faster and comebacks shrink. Brandon breaks down what to record and how to use it on the next tricky job.
Solved: Jeep Cherokee won't communicate
By Brandon Steckler
A no-communication Jeep Cherokee case study that walks through network testing, module wake-up, and the decisions that actually led to a fix.
A Jeep Cherokee that won't communicate
By Brandon Steckler
Another look at a Cherokee communication fault, this time focusing on scan-tool strategy and separating network problems from module failures.
Seal Hunting on a 2013 Jeep Wrangler
By Brandon Steckler
A cooling-system pressure waveform case on a Wrangler, showing how to use pressure transducer captures to find leaks that hide from a visual inspection.
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