Engine Repair and Rebuilding: From Top-End Service to a Full Rebuild

This is the deep end - the most advanced book in the series, for the home mechanic ready to take an engine apart and put it back together right. You'll learn how to: read noise, smoke, and oil-use symptoms; run compression and cylinder leak-down tests; interpret oil and coolant clues; decide between repair, rebuild, and replace; measure to a thousandth of an inch; apply TTY and torque-angle correctly; replace a head gasket; do a full cylinder-head and valve job; set timing belts and chains; tear down the long block; measure the bottom end; fit pistons, rings, crankshaft, and bearings; assemble the short and long block; and break in a fresh engine. With 59 full-color figures, precise measuring and torque procedures, and clear guidance on what to farm out to the machine shop. The capstone of the auto-repair series.