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Are the new Haynes manuals crap?
V8MoneyPit:
That may be part of it, but being a retailer of Haynes publications I can add a little....
The Mini one used to include a section on manual gearbox rebuilding. The automatic transmission section gave a simple overview but said that it was a 'specialist job' to rebuild it. The latest Mini manual now also describes a manual gearbox rebuild as a 'specialist job'....
What's changed in the last few years to make it more difficult than it used to be?!!!
The only thing that has improved in my view, is the layout. The Mini one used to have a huge supplement in the back because the original publication was 1976 or something. Every time an update was done, the extra stuff was put in the supplement. Given the production life of the Mini, the supplement was getting almost as big as the main part :lol: This has been sorted out in the new version.
Jas278:
Yes there crap, you spend more timing flicking from chapter to chapter ,paragraph this supplementry that, than actualy doing the job, Im glad its not only me that think they have changed for the worse...........
Damonski:
Becoming more and more crap.
The newer ones seem to be produced by simply filling in the blanks on a Haynes Manual template.
The older, original ones were imho more indepth and offered better advice.
Rich_P:
Haynes no longer owns, the Haynes Manuals. It was sold off to some other company I heard, which is why the quality has dropped substantially.
Haynes does race though, seen him I'm sure, at one of the race circuits in the pits.
Dizzy Dave:
my disco manual says when you want to take the sump off you have to "jack up the front and remove one end of the steering damper"....rubish i just jacked up the front undid all the sump bolts and span the sump around and slid it out via the thin end, no problem....
mind you i'm glad it came out that way cos the nuts on the steering damper are solid..... :roll:
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