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Service Manual
I did a search on these in the 2017+ and 6.7 forum and did not find what I was looking for so if this topic has been beat to death, throw me a bone and tell me where to find it.
I have the factory service manuals for the 7.3 (all 20 pounds of them) and I would like to find the factory service manual for the current truck. It seems the prices on these things are all over the place and I am not sure which one would be the best. If anyone out there has any direct experience with these products, I would like to know if they are any good. Here are a few examples:
https://www.factory-manuals.com/expa...anual-652.html
https://www.factoryrepairmanuals.com...l-shop-repair/
https://manualsforyou.com/shop/ford-...repair-manual/
I have the factory service manuals for the 7.3 (all 20 pounds of them) and I would like to find the factory service manual for the current truck. It seems the prices on these things are all over the place and I am not sure which one would be the best. If anyone out there has any direct experience with these products, I would like to know if they are any good. Here are a few examples:
https://www.factory-manuals.com/expa...anual-652.html
https://www.factoryrepairmanuals.com...l-shop-repair/
https://manualsforyou.com/shop/ford-...repair-manual/
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There are a lot of really inadequate, sloppy, and stolen works out there masquerading as shop manuals. I took a quick look at those and I'd be very suspicious of those. One look like it might be sort of okay, but the prices are nowhere near what a real manual would cost even on disc. I recently worked on a car where the owner had what he said was the shop manual. It was comical. Images referenced in the text had nothing whatsoever to do with the repair. In the end, I wasn't able to make the repair because of incomplete and faulty information. In that regard, the information wasn't worth a dime.
These are the two authentic shop manual sources. They are not cheap but in the end you get what you pay for. I like to actually own the information, either on paper or disc and these are primarily online. The advantage there is as the information changes, the updates are automatic.
https://www.alldata.com/
https://www.helminc.com/helm/homepage.asp?r=
These are the two authentic shop manual sources. They are not cheap but in the end you get what you pay for. I like to actually own the information, either on paper or disc and these are primarily online. The advantage there is as the information changes, the updates are automatic.
https://www.alldata.com/
https://www.helminc.com/helm/homepage.asp?r=
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Cargo Master
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I went through Helm when I purchased the service manuals for the Corvette. I see they don't offer a hard copy for the Ford, just a CD. Hopefully they will get with the program as my latest PC and laptop don't even have a CD player as that tech is on its way out.
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Someone needs to get a copy of the CD and make a bunch of backups on USB thumb drives 
Thumb drives are pretty cheap now days... $5? Maybe we can all go in to make the cost low and back it up across a bunch of thumb drives to share so it never gets lost?
Thumb drives are pretty cheap now days... $5? Maybe we can all go in to make the cost low and back it up across a bunch of thumb drives to share so it never gets lost?
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Paper is on its way out. I get nothing on paper. Everything electronic. My laptop doesn't have a CD drive, but I have a USB external CD drive for those times when it's needed.
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I have the Helm manual, comes on CD, my computer doesn't have a CD so I had to get an external drive.
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That's what I would prefer. Direct download. Maybe they think they're less likely to see a lot more copies in the wild if they produce it on CD. I don't have a problem paying for a service manual, as long as it is obscene. $100, sure. $700, nope. The service manual for my Nissan Titan cost me $10 from an authorized source, and it was downloaded direct to my PC in 2008.
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https://www.helminc.com/helm/product...717&itemtype=N
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Seeing as how the service manuals for both the 02 Ford and my 2015 Corvette cost over 400 each, less than 200 for the new truck sounds like a bargain. Helm has them listed as out-of-stock so I will order one when they become available.
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