(Sorry for the supe post, but it seemed relevant to both areas...)

Found a great link with procedures for testing various parts of your electrical/ignition/starting/charging systems with a multimeter... it's on Fluke's website, so they naturally show all Fluke meters, but a lot of the tests can be done with any $10 Princess Auto DMM, and even the more advanced ones can be done with any properly-equipped DMM.

http://assets.fluke.com/appnotes/aut...e/beatbook.pdf