Intestinalworm
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That was a great buy - Haynes Manual! Thanks StanleySteamer for recommending that I purchase it - pictures are great.
I am glad you are happy with it.
They used to be great, they even taught you how to strip and rebuild gearboxes and back axles.
But sadly now they all too often don't do exploded diagrams, are inaccurate in places, and the photography is nowadays simply awful which is inexcusable in the digital age. So I'm happy you are happy with them!
They also now think people like you and me are incapable of many task like those mentioned above. They even leave stuff out, like try to find out how to change the ATF temp sender on a TD5 auto. a job i have to do soon.
BUT there really isn't anything else much around. Autobooks seem to have died the death, (who remembers them? i had to get one for my Renault 17). And they do show you how to get around some of the special tools needed.
Not meaning to knock them too much but I remember the good old days as I bought my first one in about 1978. I have a shelf full! I also got married the second time in the Haynes motor museum. which i also totally recommend!
The Merkins also have good manuals, can't remember the name of them for the moment.
frostythor
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I agree with Stanlysteamer, the older books with the exploded drawing are far better a show the parts in more detail than an ouit of focus gray photo, when an engineer wants something made it's a CAD drawing not a grainy old photo
frostythor
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yes but there are more than one manual, the one I use is 1672 pages is it the same as yours
Intestinalworm
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I am glad you are happy with it.
They used to be great, they even taught you how to strip and rebuild gearboxes and back axles.
But sadly now they all too often don't do exploded diagrams, are inaccurate in places, and the photography is nowadays simply awful which is inexcusable in the digital age. So I'm happy you are happy with them!
They also now think people like you and me are incapable of many task like those mentioned above. They even leave stuff out, like try to find out how to change the ATF temp sender on a TD5 auto. a job i have to do soon.
BUT there really isn't anything else much around. Autobooks seem to have died the death, (who remembers them? i had to get one for my Renault 17). And they do show you how to get around some of the special tools needed.
Not meaning to knock them too much but I remember the good old days as I bought my first one in about 1978. I have a shelf full! I also got married the second time in the Haynes motor museum. which i also totally recommend!
That's a great story - getting married in a motor museum; if my wife had her way we would have got married in a shoe shop!
This particular Haynes is second-hand and in fantastic condition - they now have electronic versions of course; it's a great complement for the electronic RAVE - sometimes it's great just to read/look at a printed page!
I too prefer paper all the time.
I also photocopy the page with the service regime on it, write the mileage and the date at the top then tick the boxes and write remarks on it as I service it.
Then do the same next time so I build up a service history. I also write on the sizes of sockets needed, their positions etc etc.
The wedding! Art Deco 1920s themed. Most of the men wore overalls, the ladies mostly wore flapper gear, I wore an Edwardian driving coat over RFC overalls. The wife wore a silk, blue, set of overalls, or at least that was what they looked like till she took the jacket off and revealed a halter neck type jump-suit thing.
The rings were tied to a spanner with silk tape. Cars provided by my Kit Car club most of which looked like 1930s cars. mine, used for the honeymoon, looked like a 1930s Alfa-Romeo
Etc etc. Great fun.
