Automotive Technician Training: Practical Worksheets Level 3

Tom Denton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317528128
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Automotive practical worksheets and assessments for students at Level 3

This Level 3 Student Worksheets book contains tasks that help you develop practical skills and prepare you for assessment. The tasks also reinforce the automotive theory that you will learn online and in the classroom. Each worksheet covers individual topics in a step-by-step manner, detailing how to carry out all of the most important tasks contained within the syllabus. Alongside each of these worksheets is a job card that can be filled in and used as evidence towards your qualification.

• Endorsed by the Institute of the Motor Industry for all of their Level 3 automotive courses.
• Step-by-step guides to the practical tasks required at all Level 3 qualifications.
• Job sheets for students to complete and feedback sheets for assessors to complete.

Engines

Worksheet 1: Vehicle inspections

Procedure

General visual inspection – listen for abnormal noises.

Check brake operation and pad/disc condition – record thickness.

Check tyre tread depths.

Torque wheel nuts – include torque figures and calibration date of torque wrench.

Additional items – see manufacturer’s schedule depending upon type of inspection – pre- and post-work, PDI, PPI, pre-MOT, VHC or post-repair.

Job card

Assessor report

Worksheet 2: Carry out exhaust gas analysis using an exhaust gas analyser

Procedure

Set up the exhaust gas analyser in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. Observe all setting conditions – clean air, running time, basic checks for contamination and filter changes.

Run the engine up to normal operating temperature and drive to analyser test area. Insert the exhaust gas probe into the exhaust tail pipe or extraction system probe adapter. Ensure that the probe is inserted to the recommended depth (about 300 mm or 12 inches).

Run the engine at idle and observe and record the readings for gases on the analyser screen.

Run the engine at about 2500 rpm and observe and record the readings for gases on the analyser screen.

Compare the readings with the idle readings and with statutory requirements or manufacturer’s data.

For statutory test certification procedures using an approved gas analyser, follow the on-screen prompt sequence for entering the vehicle data and for connecting the exhaust gas probe and the engine speed tachometer, and in some cases measuring the engine temperature.

Continue to follow the prompt sequence to carry out the test. The result may be given as a pass or fail or as a set of gas percentage (%) values and lambda value for comparison with statutory regulations (different sets of values are used for different years of manufacture).

Job card

Assessor report

Worksheet 3: Remove and replace electronic distributor – strip and reassemble

Procedure

Disconnect battery ground lead. Turn engine to align timing/TDC marks. Remove distributor cap.

Note position of the rotor to the distributor body and of the body to the engine. Compare with manufacturer’s data. Disconnect multiplug to amplifier unit. Disconnect vacuum hose where fitted. Undo and remove, if necessary, distributor clamp bolts – pull out distributor. Inspect drive gear. Undo vacuum unit securing screws and connection to distributor base plate (circlip or hook). Pull out vacuum unit feeding base plate linkage through hole.

Follow manufacturer’s instructions for the removal and replacement of the pulse generator. Remove base plate to access centrifugal advance weights and springs. Remove, inspect and replace as necessary. Lubricate all parts and reassemble in reverse order with new springs if required.

Reassemble pulse generator, check, and adjust air gaps with non-ferrous feeler/gap gauge if appropriate (depe...