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ericsb210 wrote:
A basic tuneup is not always the answer on a 33 year old car, which it sounds as if it has not been cared for properly. Not everyone understands basic car mechanics and it cannot be explained to them by reading a manual which was written in technical terms for a person with a fair bit of knowledge.
Well you are partly right.
A proper tune up will establish a baseline & if it doesn't fix the problem, it will eliminate many possible causes from the diagnostic process.
This is what I had writen in a previous post. [Post #17]
After all, you can't fix a problem if you can't diagnose what the actual cause of the problem is.
Workshop manuals?
I rather like the Gregories manuals because they are writen for the home mechanic more than the professional & this is why I recomend them. They have plenty of pictures & clear descriptions on how to perform most tasks that a home mechanic might try to do.
They even have a list of the tools that would be required, or at least mine do.
I had also writen this in a previous post too [Post # 25] so the comments about the tune up & the manual only show that not all of the posts were actually read before commenting.
A Haynes manual is one that I don't have so I can not comment on the quality of the instructions but I'd have to agree that my Inter Europe manual is not as good as the Gregories.
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