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Small Gas Engines: Fundamentals, Service, Troubleshooting, Repair, Applications

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This is the best book on Small Gas Engines that we have found. This is the text for our Small Gas Engines course at Clark State Community College. This is a good place for anyone to learn about the basics of small gas engines and how they operate.

I purchased the text book and the workbook to use together so as to teach myself small gas engine repair. But after I got the workbook I noticed that it DID NOT INCLUDE THE ANSWERS. So one does not know when you get a question wrong so as to learn from your mistakes. I called the EMU, they do not use their own material, I called the publisher, they were rude, arrogant, and obnoxious. They refused to furnish the answers without a teacher's cert. The material isn't even used by the University that authored it, what's the deal. So don't buy it, as for myself, I will NOT buy anything else put out by "Goodheart-Willcox", Good they are NOT, they are a nightmare to deal with. Don't buy their junk. UP-DATE, heard from the publisher on 10-16-08, they offered to sell me the answers for the DEEP DISCOUNT PRICE OF $50, I refused, I chose to cut my losses on this one. It is a shame I didn't know the score BEFORE I laid down my money on this workbook. I paid for this mistake, maybe you can learn from it.

I am novice to engines. This book slowly (with diagrams) tells you how the engine operates. There are a lot of details on 2 and 4 cycle engines. I recommend this book as a starting point for anyone who wants to learn about small gas engines.

The book is well written and orgainized.
It exhaustively covers the subject.

This book was obtained for my 15 year old sons small engine repair class. The book is well written with adequate illustrations. It may be a bit too in depth for a 9th grade level class.