For many, many years now, whatever I've owned, I've got a factory service manual and if possible a parts manual. If you work on your own vehicle, you are doing yourself a disservice by having anything with less information. The ones for my Eagle (now with the new owner) saved me countless times in the short time I owned my Eagle. Regards, Russell Tom Jennings wrote: > Oh man you gotta have a factory technical service manual!!! I don't know > how anyone wrenches ramblers without one!! There's just so much > information, they reveal so much, it's be like working in the dark without > one. > > In fact it pays to have many of them, for each of the sort-of chassis > classes, as a lot of things are better in one vs. another, and you get to > compare years for parts, specs and techniques. > > I'm about 70% of the way to a full set (58 - 88), and while I paid $50 each > for my 63 Classic and 70 hornet (pre internet) most I paid under $20 for -- > eBay! > > Anything around the performance cars (AMX, Jav, etc) 68 - 69 cost the most! > > A decent reference set of TSMs is, if you want full-product line info, > > 62 American (lots of these available) > 63 or 64 Classic/Ambo > 67 > 70 > 74 > 79 > 82 or so > > That covers most motors at least partly and those TSMs seem to be more > common. Before 67 somewhere the american books were separate from > classic/ambo. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > > _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list