Job Description:

• 1) Repairs and overhauls motorcycles, motor scooters, and similar motor vehicles: Listens to engine, examines vehicle's frame, and confers with customer to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.

• 2) Connects test panel to engine and measures generator output, ignition timing, and other engine performance indicators.

• 3) Dismantles engine and repairs or replaces defective parts, such as magneto, carburetor, and generator.

• 4) Removes cylinder heads, grinds valves, and scrapes off carbon, and replaces defective valves, pistons, cylinders, and rings, using handtools and power tools.

• 5) Hammers out dents and bends in frame, welds tears and breaks, and reassembles and reinstalls engine.

• 6) Repairs and adjusts clutch, brakes, and drive chain.

• 7) Repairs or replaces other motorcycle and motor scooter parts, such as spring fork, headlight, horn, handlebar controls, valve release, gear lever, gasoline and oil tanks, starter, brake lever, and muffler.

• 8) May specialize in repair of motor scooters and be designated Motor-Scooter Repairer.