Motorcycle Mechanics

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.

Job Task

• Reassemble and test subassembly units.
• Disassemble subassembly units and examine condition, movement or alignment of parts visually or using gauges.
• Listen to engines, examine vehicle frames, and confer with customers in order to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.
• Connect test panels to engines and measure generator output, ignition timing, and other engine performance indicators.
• Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, and generators.
• Remove cylinder heads, grind valves, and scrape off carbon, and replace defective valves, pistons, cylinders and rings, using hand tools and power tools.
• Hammer out dents and bends in frames, weld tears and breaks; then reassemble frames and reinstall engines.
• Repair or replace other parts, such as headlights, horns, handlebar controls, gasoline and oil tanks, starters, and mufflers.
• Repair and adjust motorcycle subassemblies such as forks, transmissions, brakes, and drive chains, according to specifications.
• Replace defective parts, using hand tools, arbor presses, flexible power presses, or power tools.

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