Small Engine Care & Repair: A step-by-step guide to maintaining your small engine (Briggs & Stratton) [Paperback]

Briggs & Stratton (Author), Daniel London (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2003

Complete maintenance and repair instructions, with full-color photos and illustrations.

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Book Description

Complete maintenance and repair instructions, with full-color photos and illustrations.

About the Author

The editors of Creative Publishing international have created dozens of best-selling titles in the fields of home repair, home improvement, home decor, and landscaping.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Creative Publishing international (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158923121X
• ISBN-13: 978-1589231221
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for maintaining & servicing small B&S engines, January 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Small Engine Care & Repair: A Step-By-Step Guide to Maintaining Your Small Engine (Paperback)

This is a great reference for care and servicing of small B&S lawn mower engines. Contains countless photos with illustrations and some tables, but mostly a lot of color photos. Contains chapters entitled "Maintenance", "Basic Repair", and "Advanced Repair". "Maintenance" includes servicing spark plugs and air cleaners. "Basic Repair" includes troubleshooting, adjusting the carburetor, and replacing the rewind. "Advanced Repair" includes overhauling the carburetor, replacing the ignition, removing cylinder head carbon deposits, servicing the valves, and servicing the engine brake. The book does not cover overhauling the engine, but is a great reference for lawn mower owners who want to do their own maintenance.

65 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, June 11, 2004

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La Plata Kid "La Plata Kid" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Small Engine Care & Repair: A step-by-step guide to maintaining your small engine (Briggs & Stratton) (Paperback)

Given the title and the previous reviews of this book, I thought it would give me the information needed to at least diagnose and perhaps repair an elderly lawn mower sitting in our garage. Unfortunately, no such luck.

The lawnmower in question ran fine last year until **something** happened in the middle of a mowing. Then it just quit and wouldn't restart. Like many a homeowner, one of the first things I checked was the spark plug. Sure enough, it was completely fouled. Clean it off, still no start -- it's hard to get that much carbon off. So a new spark plug. The mower started up just fine and ran for about ninety seconds. The new plug had already fouled!

Okay, it sounds like oil is infiltrating into the chamber somehow. But how? I bought Small Engine Care and Repair hoping to find the answer in a troubleshooting guide. But when it arrived I found that there is really very little troubleshooting information. Yes, there is a troubleshooting section. Fouled spark plugs? Yes, on page 51 but it just talks about cleaning them, nothing about what might cause fouling and how to repair it. Similarly, the book talks about cleaning carbon deposits off the cylinder head but doesn't say much about preventing the deposits in the first place. The only recommendation is to use unleaded gas and clean the head once every 100 hours of operation.

To be fair, the book does describe the critical systems of small engines (compression, fuel, ignition, lubrication, etc.) well, shows you how to tune the engine, and routine service. The advanced repair topics -- as far as they go -- look to be well done, too. Photographs are excellent and used with good effect.

The book would be great for anyone wishing to perform **routine** maintenance and repair on a small 4-cycle engine. But if you've got bigger problems, pass on it!

49 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small Engine Care & Repair : A Step-By-Step Guide to Maintai, May 18, 2000

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Will Singleton (Kentucky, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Small Engine Care & Repair: A Step-By-Step Guide to Maintaining Your Small Engine (Paperback)

Anyone wanting to get started in small engine service, needs this full illistrated detailed book from briggs and stratton. The book breaks down the internal components of the small engine and describes them in full. The large colorful pictures helps those with little knowledge. If you are interested in small engin repair or own a lawnmower this is a definite title to add to your collection!