Complete practical guide
The small-engine repair book that opens with a mower in pieces and a bill bigger than the mower
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on repairing garden machinery, generators and pressure washers - why the diagnosis has to be paid for, why it is almost always the fuel, and how to have income in more than five months of the year.
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What this guide is
The mower came in on the second Saturday in April. Wes had eleven machines waiting and this was the twelfth: a mid-range petrol rotary, five or six years old, the sort of thing that had spent every winter of its life in a shed at the end of a garden. The owner put it down, said 'it won't start,' and asked how much. Wes said it was probably the carburettor, that they usually were, and that it would be about an hour. That sentence is the whole of what went wrong. The carburettor came off and was as bad as they get - varnish in the bowl, a jet blocked solid, a screw that seized and then rounded. Two hours, not one. With the carburettor off, the fuel line was obviously perished, and it would have been absurd to reassemble around a component certain to fail within the month. With the deck accessible, the blade boss was worn and the blade itself sharpened past the point where sharpening was sensible - a safety matter, and not one Wes was going to hand back to a member of the public. And on the third attempt to start it, having done everything else, the coil had failed. Four hours and forty minutes on the bench and ninety-one dollars of parts, in a mower worth perhaps a hundred and forty on a good day. Every one of those four decisions was technically correct. Not one of them was a decision Wes was entitled to make alone. Wes rang the owner, explained all of it in order with the reasoning for each stage, and the owner said the thing Wes has never forgotten: 'I only wanted it starting. I'd never have paid that.' And they were entirely right - because by then the old carburettor had been cleaned, the old line was in a bin, the old blade had been scrapped, and there was no 'as it came in' to hand back to.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- The six-second question that prevents every version of that April
- Why most machines that arrive dead are not broken
- The fixed diagnostic order - and why you finish it even when you find the fault first
- The one minute of testing that prevents most comebacks
- Why you must charge for diagnosis, and how to say it in one sentence
- The metric where zero is a warning, and what financial pressure does to it
- How to have income in ten months instead of five
- The autumn letter that converts three times better than any other marketing
- Fuel, fire and carbon monoxide handled by procedure rather than by care
- 148 AI prompts - and the one thing you must never, ever ask an AI system in this trade
Ideal for
People starting a small-engine repair side hustle from a garage or small workshop; existing repairers who have never charged for diagnosis and cannot explain where their money goes; anybody whose income exists in five months of the year; and anybody who has ever taken a machine apart before agreeing what it would cost.
- Anyone starting a small-engine repair side hustle from a garage or workshop.
- Anybody already doing it whose income exists in five months of the year and who has never charged a penny for the part of the job they are best at.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with permission for the activity, the fuel storage position and care-and-custody insurance all confirmed in writing before a single customer machine arrives, an outdoor engine-running position built before any tool is bought, a twelve-field intake card with an agreed spending limit completed in four minutes with the customer present, a fixed diagnostic order on the wall that is completed even when the fault is found at stage one, a test protocol including the hot restart and load test that prevent most comebacks, every safety function tested and recorded individually, a bench-hour cost built from fixed costs divided by actual earning months, a diagnostic charge that recovers the skilled work previously given away, a machine history per machine that makes an autumn service letter specific enough to convert, a monthly audit of twenty work orders that counts facts rather than judging performance, three reserves sized against the non-earning months, and a seasonal plan whose autumn quarter determines the following year.
A complete working system for repairing and servicing lawn equipment, generators, pressure washers and other small engines - built on four rules covering the intake record and agreed spending limit that must exist before a single fastener moves, the fixed diagnostic order that starts where the fault almost always is, the fuel and fire discipline that is managed by procedure rather than by care, and the four-month earning season set against twelve months of costs - with earnings per bench hour as the central figure and two operational numbers, one of which treats a zero count as a warning.
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