Standard

Updated: 02/2005

EHO 150 - Small Gas Engine Repair and Maintenance

Course Description

Provides instruction in basic small engine maintenance.  Topics include: engine types; ignition systems; fuel systems; lubrication, filtration, and maintenance; and engine repair.

 

Competency Areas

Hours

Engine Types

Class

3

Ignition Systems

D. Lab

2

Fuel Systems

P. Lab/O.B.I.

3

Lubrication, Filtration, and Maintenance

Credit

5

Engine Repair

 

 


Prerequisite:

Provisional admission

Corequisite:

 

 

Course Guide

 

Competency

After completing this section, the student will:

Hours

Class

D.Lab

P.Lab/

O.B.I.

ENGINE TYPES

10

5

10 

Basic engine Identification

Identify basic designs of two and four-cycle engines and their components.

 

 

 

 

Basic operating principles two and four-cycle engines.

 

 

 

 

Describe the operating sequences for two and four-cycle gasoline engines.

 

 

 

IGNITION SYSTEMS

5

5

 

Identify basic designs.

 

 

 

 

Basic operating principles.

 

 

 

 

Describe the operating sequence

 

 

 

FUEL SYSTEMS

2.5 

2.5

2.5  

 

Identify basic designs.

 

 

 

 

Basic operating principles.

 

 

 

 

Describe the operating sequence.

 

 

 

LUBRICATION, FILTRATION, AND MAINTENANCE

2.5 

2.5

2.5 

 

Basic operating principles. 

 

 

 

ENGINE REPAIR

10 

5

10 

Troubleshooting system components

Lubrication. 

 

 

 

 

Ignition System.

 

 

 

 

Filtration System. 

 

 

 

 

Fuel System.

 

 

 

Basic engine repairs

Perform basic repairs to two- and four-cycle gasoline engines. 

 

 

 

 

Suggested Resources

 

Books

 

Roth, A. (2000). Small Gas Engines. South Holland, IL: Goodheart-Wilcox, Inc

Radcliff, R. (1997). Small Engines. American Technical Publishers, Inc

Atkinson, H. (1999). Mechanics of Small Engines. McGraw-Hill

Schuster, W.A. (1999). Small Engine Technology. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers.