Description
By: Peter Hunn .
Its common for homeowners to have 2- or 4-cyclinder small engines in their lawn and garden equipment, utility vehicles, recreational vehicles, generators and other machines.
With this easy-to-follow, richly illustrated handbook, homeowners will be able to understanding small engines, troubleshooting them and working on them.
The book has a brief history of significant and popular small engines and a guide to setting up a home workshop in which to work on them.
It also includes case studies on the disassembly, maintenance, repair and/or rebuilding of: a 2-stroke lawnmower engine, a 4-stroke utility motor, a 2-stroke chainsaw engine, and a curbside junker.
The writing is lively and entertaining and the color photos clearly show how to work on these useful engines.
Covers Case studies:
- Circa-1960 Lawn-Boy Lawn-Cruiser
- 1960s four-cycle Educational Power Kit
- 1990s MTD Yard-Man mower
- 1960s West Bend Model 580-09 Power Bee kart
- Circa-1980 Stihl Farm Boss and Homelite Model 150 chainsaws
Rather than presenting the information in a shop-manual format, Hunn illustrates the text with all-color step-by-step photography and period ads and provides anecdotes detailing the adventures each case study presented, in the process providing the reader with the foundation necessary to embark on their own small-engine projects.
