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O*NET detailed work activityRepair defective engines or engine components
Stays humanHands-on work
8 jobs11 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Repair vehicle components, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 11 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Maintain, repair, and overhaul farm machinery and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, and irrigation systems.
- Repair and maintain gasoline engines used to power equipment such as portable saws, lawn mowers, generators, and compressors.
- Repair engine mechanical equipment, such as power tilts, bilge pumps, or power take-offs.
- Specialize in repairing and maintaining parts of the engine, such as fuel injection systems.
- Rebuild gas or diesel engines.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Inspect recreational vehicles to diagnose problems and perform necessary adjustment, repair, or overhaul.
- Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, or generators.
- Repair, replace, or adjust defective fuel injectors, carburetor parts, and gasoline filters.
- Inspect and repair or adjust propellers or propeller shafts.
- Repair and rebuild defective mechanical parts in electric motors, generators, and related equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
- Disassemble and overhaul internal combustion engines, pumps, generators, transmissions, clutches, and differential units.