[HN Gopher] Old Online Chevy Manuals
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       Old Online Chevy Manuals
        
       Author : 1970-01-01
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-02-15 23:30 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com)
        
       | 486sx33 wrote:
       | Love it. This rather dates back to a situation awareness "joke".
       | It goes something like this... "in 1970 a cars ownership manual
       | detailed how to adjust the valves, in 2007, it tells you not to
       | drink the battery acid".
        
         | 486sx33 wrote:
         | They really need to fix their site certs though :(
        
       | tendiesfortwo wrote:
       | I never thought I'd see a 1947 truck manual, this is so cool,
       | nice find!
        
       | pard68 wrote:
       | I've been restoring a 1954 Chevy 6400, commonly referred to as a
       | 2-ton. There are so many great resources online like this.
        
         | dimator wrote:
         | I just googled that, what a beauty!
        
           | pard68 wrote:
           | It is! I own a farm, hope to get this truck back into working
           | shape and use it to pick up my monthly grain order.
        
       | AngryData wrote:
       | Nice, I wish such old service manuals were more freely available
       | for other equipment too. Car ones are generally easy to find, but
       | for some like certain tractors, despite being over 50 years old,
       | aren't freely available and require paying like $120 for a loose
       | leaf copy.
       | 
       | A friend of mine bought a Case 830 gas tractor that stalled out
       | randomly while driving it home and it refused to start again, and
       | another friend came over and tried to "help" by randomly turning
       | all the carb adjustment screws. I thought I could just look up
       | the manual online to reset them properly since it was old as shit
       | and half the people who ever bought them also got manuals for
       | them. Figured it would put us in a good position to diagnose the
       | original problem at that point. But no you gotta pay an
       | extortionate amount for some company to print off a loose paper
       | copy, a free copy of the digital file for printing it was nowhere
       | to be found.
        
         | jethro_tell wrote:
         | huh, I've never had a problem finding online manuals. Usually
         | $20 ish dollars which I feel is fare for someone to go and find
         | the manual and digitize it.
         | 
         | I usually have better luck searching for parts manuals or shop
         | manuals which is what you really want anyways.
         | 
         | I basically buy the manual before I'll buy anything, other than
         | the family daily driver which is the only machine i own that I
         | don't work on.
         | 
         | I know I have a couple case shop manuals and I own a couple old
         | case machines, never had an issue pulling manuals and wiring
         | diagrams for them.
        
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