Tailgate Small Engine Repair

Your gas blower won’t start, or it starts and dies, or it’s lost the power it had last season and you’re tired of guessing.

This book covers gas-powered blowers only: handheld, backpack, and blower attachments for multi-tool powerhead systems. Two-stroke, Stihl 4-MIX, and true four-stroke engines. No battery or electric models.

Eight years of professional landscaping repairs, written the way I’d walk you through it at the tailgate of my truck. No shop, no special tools. You get the Tailgate Diagnostic Sequence for testing in the right order, the fuel, air, and carburetor problems that cause most failures, carb tuning in plain language, ignition and kill-switch checks, vacuum and shredder conversions, powerhead couplings and why an attachment that clicks isn’t always seated, emergency fixes that get you through the day, and 15 Field Warnings marking the mistakes that cost real money. Clear line-art diagrams throughout, plus photos straight from my own repairs.

Book Two of the Tailgate Small Engine Repair series.