Vehicle Maintenance & Garage Practice
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Vehicle Maintenance & Garage Practice Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Vehicle Maintenance & Garage Practice (subject code 2170206) as prescribed for Auto · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 63 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2170206)Unit 1 Vehicular Maintenance Practices
- Requirements and importance of service & maintenance
- Predictive & Breakdown maintenance
- weekly and monthly maintenance schedule
- Periodic maintenance scheduled chart
Unit 2 Measuring Instruments
- Measuring instruments for wear
- Fuel consumption
- Methods used for measurement of fuel consumption
Unit 3 Garage Practices
- operations and activities of service stations
- Layouts of modern service station/workshop
- Criteria and 06 15 requirements of service station and its layout
- Study of service tools
- measuring & gauging instruments and service/repair equipments with testing and repairing processes. 4
- (a) Maintenance & Overhauling of engine components: Measurement of cylinder bore
- cylinder boring and honing
- liners fitting
- Cylinder head facing
- valve seat lapping
- Adjustment of valve timing and fuel injection pump timing
- Rocker arm gap adjustment/setting procedure
- Tuning of carburetor
- Fuel injection pumps and fuel injector’s calibration
- Engine Lubrication circuit and it components
- Fuel supply circuit of petrol
- Bi-Fuel engines
- Cooling system layout and its components
- Air intake & Exhaust systems and components (b) Maintenance & Overhauling of drive lines: Adjustment of clutch
- repair & replacement of clutch parts
- Overhauling of all types of gear boxes
- Repair & maintenance of Propeller shaft & universal joint
- Differential back lash adjustment
- Repair & maintenance of differential
- Repair & maintenance of final drive/axles
- (c) Maintenance & Overhauling of various systems: Lubrication and maintenance of suspension system
- Study and adjustment of steering geometry
- toe in, toe out, caster
- camber, and king pin inclination
- Maintenance of steering system
- Maintenance of wheel and tyre
- Tyre rotation
- tyre re-treading
- effect of tyre inflation & tyre wear
- Wheel balancing
- Maintenance of hydraulic brakes
- brake adjustments and bleeding of brakes
Unit 10 Job cards of modern service station. List of experiments (any ten)
- Study of modern workshop layout. 2
- Study of different types of job cards & maintenance schedule chart. 3
- Study of measuring
- gauging & service equipments. 4
- Demonstration on tyre inflator and hydraulic hoist. 5
- Demonstration on tyre changer and car washer unit. 6
- Performance on wheel balancer. 7
- Performance on wheel aligner. 8
- Cleaning and testing of petrol injector. 9
- Cleaning and testing of different types of nozzles. 10
- Bleeding of hydraulic brakes
Unit 12 Study of different workshop documents & records. List of equipments
- Hydraulic hoist 2
- Electronic tyre inflator 3
- Tyre changer 4
- Wheel aligner 5
- Wheel balancer 6
- Petrol injector cleaner test setup 7
- Diesel nozzle tester and cleaner setup 8
- Measuring and gauging instruments
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