Small Engine Repair: 5.5 HP Thru 20 HP Four Stroke Engines (Haynes TECHBOOK) [Paperback]

Haynes Haynes (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1563922983 | ISBN-13: 978-1563922985 | Publication Date: January 15, 1999 | Edition: 1

Inside this manual you will find routine maintenance, tune-up procedures, engine repair, cooling and heating, air conditioning, fuel and exhaust, emissions control, ignition, brakes, suspension and steering, electrical systems, and wiring diagrams.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (January 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563922983
• ISBN-13: 978-1563922985
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #539,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An OK reference for beginners, July 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Small Engine Repair: 5.5 HP Thru 20 HP Four Stroke Engines (Haynes TECHBOOK) (Paperback)

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.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One more manual -- and thats all., December 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Small Engine Repair: 5.5 HP Thru 20 HP Four Stroke Engines (Haynes TECHBOOK) (Paperback)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Concise reference to a variety of Brands, March 29, 2010

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This review is from: Small Engine Repair: 5.5 HP Thru 20 HP Four Stroke Engines (Haynes TECHBOOK) (Paperback)

All small engines are similar and if you've had one of them apart, the others aren't that different or difficult to figure out.

The difficult part is finding the setting and specifications for each brand and model of engine: Head bolt torque spec, crankshaft end play allowance, point, plug gap settings, carburetor settings, Piston and bearing wear specs, etc.

All of these specs are provided in this manual in quick to access tables. This is a reference that will be by my bench all of the time and the pages are probably going to get very stained from repeated use.