fandomhigh | Practical Applications Period 5 Week 2

John paced the front of the room, and gave a quick overview of shop safety. Wear the shop glasses, don't light gas on fire, no firing up the engines without warning other people, and so forth.

"H'okay, you three. Last week was kinda an intro class. Lotsa talking, not much action. This week? Action. Here's the deal: you need to pick an engine, diagnose the problem, and repair it. Probable problems will be a bad spark plug, dirty carb, or a broken part. Or all three. Could be something more severe, like overheating, cracked block, ring job, new pistons." He thunked three small-engine manuals on the table.

"It may not be for whatever engine you choose, but it's got the basics, and they've got a good step-by-step on troubleshooting. Diagnosis. Disassembly. Reassembly."

He pointed to a pile of parts on a side table. The table was chartreuse, as was every other frickin' thing in the shop aside from the engines and the parts, as they were not part of the Danger Shop but real. "This is a pile of crap for your engines. Carb rebuild kits, valve kits, ring job kits, cylinder hone kits, et cetera, et cetera. Tools are on the wall," he said, pointing to the lovely green toolboxes with sickeningly green tools (blasphemy!) "and if you need anything, I'll be here. So. Questions?"

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Mechanic overalls and latex/vinyl gloves available. Shop glasses required. Ear protection optional when the buggers finally fire up.

Naomi Wildman

A.J.

Dib

Anything from a pair of weed whacker gas engines to 1, 1.5, 2, 2.33, etc engines up to 7hp (John's). Tecumseh, Briggs & Stratton, Honda, Snapper, etc. Grab one (or two) and start getting messy!

A.J. picked out an older, mid-level ~~or whatever~~ engine that looked like a good one to start picking at...

~~it has power steering, cruise control, and leather seats~~ If he were to try to start it, it would just make a hissy phutphutphut sound and not turn over.

Naomi eventually selected a Tecumesh engine to work on.

It's in decent condition, bit dirty. She'd have a bit of trouble trying to start it, as the pull cord seems to be missing.

Dib picked an engine at random and spent a second in dismay looking for the USB port so he could run a diagnostic. Remembering that he was in the wrong time period for that, Dib took a deep breath, secured his shop glasses, and went about looking at its condition.

The engine just sat there, anthropomorphically sad. And lonely. It would cry big weepy gas/oil tears if it wasn't suffering from dry-rot.

Handwave, play What's Wrong With My Engine? (sp), chat, build art sculptures with wrenches, etc. (Not really. No manhandling of John's tools inappropriately.)

...and got to work on it it. He didn't need to build sculptures, thank you very much. Getting inside all the workings of an engine was art enough in itself.

Although that didn't stop him from thinking about what parts might be able to be spared for something later, hum hum.