Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul trucks, buses, and all types of diesel engines. Includes mechanics working primarily with automobile diesel engines.

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• Use handtools such as screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches, pressure gauges, and precision instruments, as well as power tools such as pneumatic wrenches, lathes, welding equipment, and jacks and hoists.
• Inspect brake systems, steering mechanisms, wheel bearings, and other important parts to ensure that they are in proper operating condition.
• Perform routine maintenance such as changing oil, checking batteries, and lubricating equipment and machinery.
• Adjust and reline brakes, align wheels, tighten bolts and screws, and reassemble equipment.
• Raise trucks, buses, and heavy parts or equipment using hydraulic jacks or hoists.
• Test drive trucks and buses to diagnose malfunctions or to ensure that they are working properly.
• Inspect, test, and listen to defective equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test instruments such as handheld computers, motor analyzers, chassis charts, and pressure gauges.
• Examine and adjust protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices.
• Inspect and verify dimensions and clearances of parts to ensure conformance to factory specifications.
• Specialize in repairing and maintaining parts of the engine, such as fuel injection systems.
• Attach test instruments to equipment, and read dials and gauges to diagnose malfunctions.
• Rewire ignition systems, lights, and instrument panels.
• Recondition and replace parts, pistons, bearings, gears, and valves.
• Repair and adjust seats, doors, and windows, and install and repair accessories.
• Inspect, repair, and maintain automotive and mechanical equipment and machinery such as pumps and compressors.
• Disassemble and overhaul internal combustion engines, pumps, generators, transmissions, clutches, and differential units.
• Rebuild gas or diesel engines.
• Align front ends and suspension systems.
• Operate valve-grinding machines to grind and reset valves.

• Blow torches
• Adjustable wrenches
• Adjustable wrenches
• Welders
• Hammers
• Battery chargers
• Induction heaters
• Pneumatic sanding machines
• Specialty wrenches
• Compressed air gun
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Boring tools
• Boring tools
• Box end wrenches
• Brake repair kits
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Hammers
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Slings
• Cold chisels
• Hammers
• Combination wrenches
• Hammers
• Blow torches
• Speed sensors
• Depth gauges
• Desktop computers
• Portable data input terminals
• Diagonal cut pliers
• Calipers
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Power drills
• Workshop presses
• Dynamometers
• Feeler gauges
• Files
• Specialty wrenches
• Portable data input terminals
• Forklifts
• Engine or component test stands
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Engine or component test stands
• Power grinders
• Saws
• Portable data input terminals
• Ear plugs
• Hex keys
• Hoists
• Drill bits
• Hydraulic pumps
• Hydraulic pumps
• Impact wrenches
• Pressure sensors
• Calipers
• Jacks
• Lathes
• Locking pliers
• Metal inert gas MIG welding machinery
• Micrometers
• Milling cutters
• Multimeters
• Needlenose pliers
• Open end wrenches
• Calipers
• Paint sprayers
• Personal computers
• Adjustable widemouth pliers
• Pneumatic impact wrenches
• Power drills
• Power grinders
• Power sanders
• Power saws
• Pressure indicators
• Pry bars
• Specialty wrenches
• Workshop presses
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Stamping dies or punches
• Putty knives
• Files
• Ratchets
• Reamers
• Rivet tools
• Safety glasses
• Protective gloves
• Screwdrivers
• Shears
• Hammers
• Slip or groove joint pliers
• Specialty wrenches
• Thickness measuring devices
• Retaining ring pliers
• Socket sets
• Feeler gauges
• Sockets
• Pressure or steam cleaners
• Tachometers
• Tape measures
• Circuit tester
• Pressure indicators
• Torque wrenches
• Tungsten inert gas TIG welding machinery
• Two way radios
• Utility knives
• Vacuum pumps
• Resurfacers
• Locking pliers
• Voltage or current meters
• Adjustable widemouth pliers
• Welding tools
• Welding masks
• Wheel balancing equipment
• Wire lug crimping tool
• Wire cutters
• Stripping tools
• Workshop cranes
• Adjustable wrenches

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