Shop Manual

[Steve Wood]

I am always a bit puzzled when I find that people don't want to download a shop manual for our cars.  It makes it so much easier to sort out the electrics, etc.

Originally, Jeremy Wood and Jim Testa scanned the pertinent sections of the shop manual and sold cd's.  Later, Jeremy stopped selling the cd's and posted the manual on line.

Anyone that wants one can download it here  thru Google docs  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_taSEdSERBnSzlWSkZtTWJhbjA/edit
When you click download, it will say the file is too large to virus scan but you can click and go ahead and download it anyway.

All the data that was on the cd is there.  Really makes the wiring diagrams easy to follow and it gives all the other info from the factory to explain how things work/go

[Be4u]

I remember buying a printer and printing every single page on that cd. Glad I did cuz I don't have the cd anymore but I got the printed manual.

I'm glad the manual is still on the internet, if you ain't got it, get it!

[motorhead]

Thanks, Steve!  I never managed to get my hands on this until now... always had a full set of 1986 Buick service manuals as my guide and the paper is getting pretty grungy.

[Steve Wood]

Mike, I have a paper manual and grungy is the word!  Not to mention the pages that got pulled out and stuck back in the wrong place, etc.  I prefer paper usually, but, its life is limited.

[gusszgs]

Thanks Steve
A guy up here was going to give me a copy on cd about 10 yrs ago

[daveismissing]

I think I have 2 full sets plus the addendums - its about 3 lineal  feet of shelf. Much is duplicated but who has time to sort thru. Prefer Jeremy's CD (purchased) actually 

[good2win22]

I was fortunate to have a coworker give me the paper shop manuals complete. I don't think he ever opened them up. A few years later a guy sent me the manuals on disc which I promptly saved to an external hard drive. I have always preferred paper manuals but find looking for stuff so much faster when it's on pdf


Edit: I have also found that having the info on my iPad while working is extremely handy.

[Be4u]

Steve, I was so happy to have the manual printed I even put them in plastic pages, like baseball cards.

[earlbrown]

Odd. I spend forever renaming all the PDFs to they chapter names and still can't find shit in those files.  The actual shop books are waayyyy easier for me to find stuff (and still kindov a bitch )


I guess I don't go into the manuals enough to memorize what's where.

[motorhead]

I guess I don't go into the manuals enough to memorize what's where.

I use Post-its and flags.

[Steve Wood]

I have the electrical section in a separate notebook.  that's the one that is completely worn out...but, at least in that era, GM made the diagrams easy to use instead of putting the entire car on two pages.

[motorhead]

The electrical section was paramount when I was wiring up the wagon.  I learned a lot.

[earlbrown]

I use Post-its and flags.

If I use post-its on my screen they cover up titties the other 99.9999999% of the time.


and we can't have that.

[poppy1440]

Hello,  when you download the manual can you download it to the computers hard drive or do you have to save it to a disk.  The only option I get is to save it to a disk. 

[earlbrown]

Saving it to the hard drive is saving it to a disk.