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1. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 98 09:24:22 -0500
On 2/27/98 7:59 PM so and so John McEwen said. (And I quote) You didn't read the page where you need a "POLICE BOX" Or a TARDIS to the rest of the uninformed. Sorry, couldn't help myself. Larry Macy
/html/mgs/1998-03/msg00004.html (6,940 bytes)

2. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 98 09:58:33 -0000
requred 3 the In my experience, allen bolts are not limited to VW: all modern cars = use them. Even more tricky are star head bolts. The reason they are used is that they can be used on an automated
/html/mgs/1998-03/msg00075.html (7,136 bytes)

3. Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Patrick Bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 04:58:54 -0800
Just spent the day replacing a half shaft on my wife's VW RABBITT!!!!! It is nowhere as much fun as working on my MG!!!!My gripe is WHY don't these car repair manuals in this case a Haynes tell you w
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01534.html (7,845 bytes)

4. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: "charlie schellinck" <charlie@mars.ark.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:19:30 -0800
I hate VW's I had the same experance with the damm sump plug. it requred the godzilla of allen wrenches to remove it witch would not be in for 3 weeks. so I heated a pice of steel up super hot and po
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01536.html (7,485 bytes)

5. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Sean Bartnik <sbart7kb@www.mwc.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 98 21:10:45 EST
Jeez, all you have to do is take a 17mm bolt, stick the head in the plug and thread two nuts onto it right up next to each other and use your favorite wrench to undo it. Or instead of buying a 17mm
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01541.html (7,866 bytes)

6. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: "Dan Ray" <danray@bluegrass.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 21:31:47 -0600
Oh Adam! ouch! You should qualify your hatred with "modern" or "water-cooled"! The air-cooled Vdubs are simplicity defined to work on! I never had a Bentley Manual for my Bug and did great. I'm findi
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01542.html (8,604 bytes)

7. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John McEwen)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:59:07 -0500
Sorry Pat, the Rabbit has common nuts and bolts. You live in the only country in the world which still uses SAE standards. Get used to it. Most American cars now contain many metric fasteners and the
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01545.html (9,696 bytes)

8. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:02:29 -0600
Nope. Unrepentent hatred for Honda Accords. When I met my wife she was driving an '86. Honda management said they wanted a low hoodline. Thus the front suspension had little travel and poor geometry.
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01550.html (8,002 bytes)

9. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 02:38:25 +0000
I had a similar experience on my VW Jetta. there is a plug that covers the access hole for checking the ignition timing that uses a hex fastener about the size of a typical crowbar cross-section. Si
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01557.html (8,527 bytes)

10. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Don Walton <dhw@atomic.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 10:46:45 -0500
for the complete idiot. I bought a 75 Rabbit new and put over 250,000 miles on it and this book helped me immensely. Plus the atrwork in the book is priceless. I sold the car years ago, but the book
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01562.html (8,599 bytes)

11. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Wildbil923 <Wildbil923@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 11:43:33 EST
I agree. Most manuals are of very limited value, telling you the obvious and leaving out the valuable. The best manual I've ever used in is John Muir's (God rest his soul) How to Keep Your Volkswage
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01566.html (7,504 bytes)

12. Re: Crappy car manuals (score: 1)
Author: Sean Bartnik <sbart7kb@www.mwc.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 98 13:14:15 EST
Beware! Muir is fine if you're a novice, but Muir is also an idiot himself about a lot of things and there is a lot of misinformation in his book. If you're a serious shadetree mechanic, spend the b
/html/mgs/1998-02/msg01568.html (8,301 bytes)

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