Small Engine Repair: 5.5 HP Thru 20 HP Four Stroke Engines (Haynes TECHBOOK) | John Haynes

Small Engine Repair: 5.5 HP Thru 20 HP Four Stroke Engines (Haynes TECHBOOK) | John Haynes | One more manual -- and thats all.

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Small Engine Repai...

	Small Engine Repair: 5.5 HP Thru 20 HP Four Stroke Engines (Haynes TECHBOOK) John Haynes Haynes Manuals, Inc., 1999 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Provides coverage for larger single and twin-cylinder engines typically used in lawn tractors, generators, rototillers, snow blowers, log splitters and industrial equipment. This comprehensive manual covers maintenance, tune-up, repairs, overhaul and seasonal storage of gasoline-powered four-stroke engines. All popular Briggs and Stratton, Tecumseh/Craftsman, Honda, Kohler and Robin/Wisconsin Robin engines are covered, including newer Overhead Valve (OHV) models.

An OK reference for beginners

This is an OK book for someone who is just beginning to repair medium size riding lawnmower engines. Experienced mechanics will find little in the book that they do not already know. Understand that, as one would expect from the title, small chain saw, weed eater, leaf blower, and push mower engines are not covered. The information is limited, pretty elementary and lacking enough detail to help an experienced repair person making major repairs or difficult diagnostics. The number of different brands of engines covered is limited.

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One more manual -- and thats all.

I own a couple of repair manuals and this one isn't the best. I'm not much of a mechanic and don't find working with engines easy to do, as do many guys. Thus I've been looking for an engine repair manual which will take me through every step necessary in order to maintain and repair an engine -- this one isn't it (at least not for me). Another reviewer of this book found it to be too simple where as I find that it, like most other books of this nature, assumes the reader knows the jargon and understands the principles fairly well to start with. This book, at least for me, left much to be desired. I don't think it is as good as the Briggs and Stratton manual. It covers more engine types but does so in less detail and with less step by step directives. If you are the type of person who doesn't have a technical mind (and I don't) and doesn't easily understand mechanical devises (and I don't), I'd suggest you look elsewhere.

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recommended text

This text was recommended by the instructor of the small engine
repair class sponsored by the Urbana Adult Education Unit 4
district. It is bigger and has many more photos than the Demsey book but is less portable and fewer line drawings.

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