Manuals. Can you get them?
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5th Wheeling
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Manuals. Can you get them?
Can you still get the Ford manuals for our trucks? The full set of books would be great but I would settle for a CD. I have some full sets of manuals for my Mustang and a few others and I love them... They've helped my solve a ton of issues particularly the wiring diagrams, those are great to have. I've done searches but can't seem to find them anywhere. Don't want the Haynes or Chiltons.
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Those manuals are still around. I recently did a manual conversion on a 96 f250. I guess the junkyard pulled the trans out of a partially crushed truck with undetermined miles. 40 thousand on it now and going strong, not new but strong. (it was like $200) They are not too expensive to rebuild either if you need to.
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Those manuals are still around. I recently did a manual conversion on a 96 f250. I guess the junkyard pulled the trans out of a partially crushed truck with undetermined miles. 40 thousand on it now and going strong, not new but strong. (it was like $200) They are not too expensive to rebuild either if you need to.
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I got a Dave Graham manual on CD from Rockauto. Looks like a scan of the original manual, says it's officially licensed by Ford. I don't recommend it. The pages take longer to load than any other PDF I've used (and that's after I've copied them to the hard drive), so scrolling through it takes a while. You can't just go straight to the page number you want, because Ford organized the manual by group and section, which has no relationship to the page numbers in the PDF. Ford's cross-index shows six lettered volumes, but the CD has five files, one of which has the section letter in the title. I haven't been arsed to see which is missing or whether they combined the large truck manuals or what the deal is there. I've had it jump to other pages when I tap chapter headings, like maybe it has internal links, but they aren't marked and it doesn't do that consistently. Some pages have scan artifacts or info covered by the watermark, but this hasn't been an issue so far, probably because I can't find crap to begin with.
So, yeah, don't get that one.
So, yeah, don't get that one.
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Agree on the Dave Graham ones being a total pain in *** to navigate, but the data is there for reasonable cost.
I only use mine for torque specs or odd exploded diagrams.
I only use mine for torque specs or odd exploded diagrams.
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I picked up a EVTM and factory service manual set for my '91 on eBay. They are readily available, and if you're patient, you can get them for the "right" price.
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Thanks for all the info. Exactly why I was not wanting the CD, to difficult to scroll and find info but for the price it might be the way to go for now. The CD is so cheap compared to the original manuals (asking price on ebay). But I'll keep waiting for a good price to pop up. The original paper back manuals are definitely the way to go I just didn't expect them to be asking over 3 bills. I know it's a asking price so maybe the prices will come down.
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