reminds me of the Old Motors Auto Repair manuals from back in the 50’s and 60’s. I would thumb through those for hours when I was a kid.
I have a 1970 Motors manual, one thing you can say is they are very terse. Wish I could’ve grabbed my dad’s series, he had it back to ’53 and it would still useful to have!!
The good ole days as it were.
This was my text book in junior college for an auto shop class–
Back in the late 60’s/early 70’s I was discussing Chebbie car coils – I told the counterman that the coils were 6 volt, not 12. He begged to differ. I brought in my Dad’s 55 Chevy Shop Manual and showed him the circuit. The coil normally runs with a resistor in series, dropping 5-6V across it, but when cranking it switches to 12V “for a hotter spark” according to the manual. Ford and CHrysler did the same at the time…
Things have REALLY changed, eh?
Setting the timing on the MGB-GT I bought as my first car was such a joy, but not as much fun as adjusting / synchronizing the dual side-draft webbers. They would go out of whack with every thermal cycle of the engine – you know, start it and it gets hot, shut it off and it cools off . . . . . like that. Turns out that POS had a ’61 “racing” engine according to the old guy in the machine shop who took a liking to me, mated to a ’68 transmission in a 1967 chassis. In other words, some kind of Frankenstein. Took a few times of changing the throw out bearing and the bushing that mates the flywheel to the shaft on the tranny (no, the GOOD kind of tranny) for me to get the dial micrometer out to discover that the standard bushing the local MG shop sold me was the correct OD to fit the flywheel, BUT TOO SMALL FOR THE SHAFT ON MY ’86 TRANNY!! I think I went through that 4 times before I realized something was way wrong. . . . .. .. . but cut me a break, I was only 17.
But the arrival of the new JC Whitney catalog every now and then was always a reason for celebration.
Except for EV, then you have to call the Geek Squad.
Does that mean I’m Geek Squad?
http://www.commutercars.com
reminds me of the Old Motors Auto Repair manuals from back in the 50’s and 60’s. I would thumb through those for hours when I was a kid.
I have a 1970 Motors manual, one thing you can say is they are very terse. Wish I could’ve grabbed my dad’s series, he had it back to ’53 and it would still useful to have!!
The good ole days as it were.
This was my text book in junior college for an auto shop class–
https://www.amazon.com/engines-electrical-systems-Frederick-Blanchard/dp/0910992258/ref=sr_1_1?Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0&qid=1664118191&refinements=p_28%3Aauto+engines+and+electrical&s=books&sr=1-1&unfiltered=1
Still have it.
Back in the late 60’s/early 70’s I was discussing Chebbie car coils – I told the counterman that the coils were 6 volt, not 12. He begged to differ. I brought in my Dad’s 55 Chevy Shop Manual and showed him the circuit. The coil normally runs with a resistor in series, dropping 5-6V across it, but when cranking it switches to 12V “for a hotter spark” according to the manual. Ford and CHrysler did the same at the time…
Things have REALLY changed, eh?
Setting the timing on the MGB-GT I bought as my first car was such a joy, but not as much fun as adjusting / synchronizing the dual side-draft webbers. They would go out of whack with every thermal cycle of the engine – you know, start it and it gets hot, shut it off and it cools off . . . . . like that. Turns out that POS had a ’61 “racing” engine according to the old guy in the machine shop who took a liking to me, mated to a ’68 transmission in a 1967 chassis. In other words, some kind of Frankenstein. Took a few times of changing the throw out bearing and the bushing that mates the flywheel to the shaft on the tranny (no, the GOOD kind of tranny) for me to get the dial micrometer out to discover that the standard bushing the local MG shop sold me was the correct OD to fit the flywheel, BUT TOO SMALL FOR THE SHAFT ON MY ’86 TRANNY!! I think I went through that 4 times before I realized something was way wrong. . . . .. .. . but cut me a break, I was only 17.
But the arrival of the new JC Whitney catalog every now and then was always a reason for celebration.
I would like to have a poster of that!
Making it look like the exploded diagram is easy.
It’s the putting it back together that sucks!