A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Small Engine Service.

Using any sort of vehicle in exploration missions, in outdoor adventures in the middle of the wilderness, or thorough inhospitable and barely passable roads may put drivers and pilots in sudden emergency and survival situations. The vehicle in question need not be an old fashioned single-engine biplane, and you should not thing that such things would happen to you if you fly over the dense tropical jungle of Mytkyna, or the polar seas around Jan Mayen; if your engine stops then, well, you may call Houston to tell that you have a problem, but you can have those elsewhere too.

If the engine of our all-terrain SUV, 4x4 jeep or truck stops while we are crossing a mountain pass, or a road thorough the desert we will be confronting a serious situation too that may even become desperate and difficult to survive if no other vehicle passes nearby in a couple of days; and in our world there are many places just like that.

Thus, the adventurer, explorer and the lover of all sorts of all-terrain vehicles, be them in two, three, four or more wheels, should not only learn to drive, navigate and pilot, but to repair it as well. And, why not? This concept may be extended to all sorts of common people that might found themselves in the path of a disaster, like what happened to the unfortunate inhabitants of New Orleans, in the United States, in 2005.

Any vehicle owner will benefit from such knowledge but in cases such as what we are mentioning, repairing a vehicle's engine, improvising and cannibalising if necessary, and doing all sorts of circumstance repairs may make the difference between dying or living to tell the story. It would not be good enough to repent from not having acquired this knowledge once an new hurricane Katrina is knocking at your door, implacably.

In a society based in speed and vehicles, learning how to repair them is a survival skill.

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