Book Description
If like most do-it-yourselfers you've relied on a sketchy owner's manual or one of those abstruse shop manuals written for professional mechanics to keep your onboard running, here's an end to your frustration. This abundantly illustrated nonthreatening guide is filled with effective maintenance, repair, and advanced troubleshooting advice for two-cycle and four-cycle engines from 2 to 250 horsepower. Although outboard engines have become more reliable, they're also more sophisticated and require more than a passing knowledge of mechanics to troubleshoot and repair. Outboard Engines covers recent developments such as electronic ignition, oil injection systems, and four-stroke powerheads. Your fears about the reliability of your "finicky" outboard are over!


Card catalog description
Outboard Engines fills the gap between owner's manuals that don't even tell you how to change a spark plug and professional shop manuals that detail how to do a complete rebuild. It covers basic principles and techniques for a wide variety of outboards - four-stroke as well as two-stroke - with the emphasis on maintenance and advanced troubleshooting. Ed Sherman's clear explanations and diagrams take you step by step through the basics and beyond, helping you track down even the most elusive problems a modern outboard can throw in your way. his methodical approach can save you a world of frustration - and peril - as well as time-and-a-half weekend mechanics' charges.

FROM THE PUBLISHER