Small Engine Care & Repair: A step-by-step guide to maintaining your small engine (Briggs & Stratton) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Briggs & Stratton, Daniel London
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 50999
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 158923121X
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.4340288
EAN: 9781589231221
ASIN: 158923121X
Publication Date: April 1, 2003
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Condition: NEW SOFTCOVER EDITION
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Product Description
With this book, you can handle all of the maintenance needs of your four-stroke small engine, whatever the brand, and take on virtually any repair project. It guides you through each procedure in clear, concise steps, with more than 325 color photographs and illustrations. Small Engine Care & Repair provides more than just detailed instructions and glossy photos. It teaches you the principles of small engine operation, so you can broaden your knowledge, whether you're performing maintenance or repairs or just want to understand your equipment better. This book is a resource for beginners and seasoned home mechanics alike, with a wealth of information on specialty tools, safety and other issues affecting your small engine. This new, expanded edition has been revised to include an important section on seasonal maintenance, and updated to include the latest engines, maintenance products, and tools.
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 FAST SHIPPING November 21, 2007
FAST SHIPPING. BOUGHT IT FOR MY HUSBAND AND HE IS PLEASED WITH THE INFORMATION. IT IS A BASIC GUIDE ON MAINTAINING YOUR OWN SMALL ENGINES.
 Pretty but Dumb July 12, 2007
OK maybe that's harsh. If you've never touched an engine before, and yours is still running, this is a friendly introduction. Or if you lost the operating manual.
What I was hoping for was an updated version of the old B&S manuals you could buy at the auto-parts and hardware stores (See Briggs & Stratton Repair Manual (For Single Cylinder 4-Cycle Engines)), but this is not it. It seems dumbed-down a lot. The "Care" and "Troubleshooting" bits are mostly in the manual when you buy something with an engine, and the "Repair" stuff is mostly obvious if you've got any mechanical sense.
Unfortunately, Neither Haynes nor Chilton seem to have updated their manuals since the late 90's, and the newer pubs by other folks seem to be dumbed-down as well according to the reviews. I'm at a loss to recommend an alternative. Personally, I'm going to dig up my old B&S manual and see how much of it still applies. In the end it'll be the carburetor, it always is, and the old book won't help because that's the part that changes continuously from year to year. Oh well.
 Very informative and methodical May 19, 2007
I love this book. I found the information to be very helpfull, I was able to replace the gas tank on my lawnmower and clean out the engine. This is the first time I have done anything like this, but because of this book I think I can even work on my other small engine equipment. This was a great buy for me.
 Check to see if you really need this April 27, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
OK, here's the deal on this book: if you either need to do some repair and heavy maintenance on your B&S (or, as I like to call, BS) engine, or you already have part of it apart and don't know how to get it back together, then this book will be helpful. However, if you have already torn your mower apart, put it back together, but are still having trouble honing in on the problem, I don't think you'll get much out of this book.
I was in the latter position up until, well, today. I had taken the carb off, "rebuilt" it, and readjusted it several times. But I couldn't get my mower running. Turns out the smallest internal part of the carb -- the needle seat -- has to be put in a certain way. This book doesn't go into anywhere near that much detail. This is only one example of which I'm sure there are others, particularly when you start messing around with the head and piston.
You can only learn engine repair and diagnosis through experience with (hopefully) a mentor. Online forums can help be that mentor in many cases. If you have no idea how to get started, then yes, I recommend this book. But if diagnosis and other small issues are your problem, I don't think this book will help.
 Very Dissappointed - Only covers 1 type of B&S engine November 18, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have two lawn mowers with Briggs and Stratton engines. One purchased in 2000 and the second in Oct 2006. Both have roughly the same 4 HP engine. (This has to be one of B&S more popular B&S lawn mower engines.) This book does not offer any guidance on repair or maintenance instructions for the carburetor that is on my 2 engines. Very generic. I thought it would cover all models
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