Mark S. Lepore, M.D. wrote:
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> Does anyone have a work manual to recommend for a TR6? I'm not planning
> to do any "Major" stuff like engine work, tranny, or differential. I'd
> like to find a do-it-yourself type manual for those of us without a lot
> of tools or know-how.
Take the shop manual/bentley manual. There's no such thing
as more manual than you need. ;>
The best part about those manuals is the redundancy. A Haynes manual
will show you how to take your whole dash about, and how to take your
whole carb apart. But if what you want to do is change your
choke cable, you have to kind of interpolate exactly what needs
removing.
The bentley manual will have like job 50.30.16, removing
choke cable. TURN THIS NUT. MOVE THIS BRACKET. UNSCREW THIS.
REMOVE CABLE. REPLACE CABLE. SCREW THIS NUT. MOVE THIS
BRACKET. TURN THIS NUT. All done.
It's redundant, because taking apart the same piece will
be covered in several "jobs". But paper is cheap.
Also very useful, the shop manual is usually a lot more
specific to each model and year. This is really bad for
cars that have had long production lives, like spitfires
or my spridget. The Haynes for my spridget covers four
engines, four bodies, three trannies, several carb setups,
and so on. The shop manual covers four years, and every
year is detailed "this is 1975", "this is 1976-78", etc.
...very handy for emissions or electrical stuff that changes
often. No need to make sense out of a diagram that says
"typical early design shown, late models similar" when yours
is a late model.
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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