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Repairing Your Outdoor Power Equipment (Trade) |  | Author: Jay Webster
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 372
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0766814033
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.4340288
EAN: 9780766814035
Publication Date: January 3, 2001
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Product Description
Repairing Your Outdoor Power Equipment is a new resource which shows you how to successfully service and repair your favorite outdoor power equipment, including: lawnmowers and garden tractors, snow throwers, leaf blowers, chain saws, portable pumps, and more! Complete with step-by-step photo sequences, this book will introduce you to the professional failure analysis and servicing techniques you need to keep your equipment in top condition, while highlighting the operation of basic two-stroke and four-stroke engines. Safety precautions and troubleshooting skills are emphasized in every chapter to ensure your success. There's even a full section in Repairing Your Outdoor Power Equipment which allows you to conduct a failure analysis and learn to rebuild a failed engine!
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 good resource September 11, 2009
jdog
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I find the book to be very informative. Obviously it can't cover every make and model in detail, but it does a good job of explaining how each type of tool works in general. It's a great place to start for the beginning handyman (or woman).
"Repairing your outdoor equipment" October 30, 2008
Kenneth Moore
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The BEST manual for both beginners and experienced mechanics.
Absoluteely recommend for one book choice or a library.
good book with detailed information about each engine parts August 6, 2008
Edison (United States)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I brought a generator over the Internet. When it came, it does not start. Sending it back for replacement will cost about $100 for shipping, also I don't have a way to pack it in its orignal shape -- since I have assembled. In addition, it is over 200 lbs -- way too heavy to box in anything I have.
So I brought this book to try to make it work. I have so far able to adjust the valve to improve the compression based on reading this book. Check the fuel systems and other part. Just there is not enough information from the manufactuer or from this book to be able to tell the carburetor is good or bad, since this book is for gasoline engine and mine is a LPG/NG engine.
Although reading this book did not get the engine started, it is a fine book to read. Recommeneded.
great book for understanding gasoline engines!!! June 2, 2008
raubritter (Texas)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book starts out with the simplest 2-stroke engines, explaining different carburetor setups, and goes up through more complicated 4-stroke engines. This book would be a great basis for learning about gasoline engines in general... It also has advice on general maintenance and troubleshooting. Very informative book for learning HOW these things work so that you can fix them.
Good book that goes into a lot of detail December 22, 2007
Tax Filer (Ohio)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I looked at several small engine repair manuals and I was unimpressed by them. (The Haynes book is particularly disappointing) This one goes into a nice level of explanation of how something (e.g. a carburetor) works, the various types available and then how to trouble shoot it. Knowing how something works is crucial to really trouble shoot an engine.
I am an engineer so I like how this book describes the items function. Obviously some level of technical understanding is necessary to really appreciate an engine manual. But if you don't have that appreciation - you probably aren't trying to fix your own engines. So if you are looking for such a book, I can easily recommend this one.
The knowledge I've gained from this book has also helped with larger pieces of equipment - like full-size tractors. The older tractors (like my John Deere 3010) use the same basic components.
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