I agree with Mark...I feel Chilton books are a waste of $$$...Haynes have
actual pictures and are based on a teardown of the vehicle in question.

Adam Puzerewski
81 westy
74 beetle
86 cabrio
Vanagon Partsmobiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Mages" <wasserbox@yahoo.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Plea for help (no Vanagon content)

> What kind of Haynes did you get?  The only times my
> Haynes has said 'take it to a shop', after I was done,
> I found that I probably should have taken it to a
> shop....
>
> Chiltons have historically been the most unhelpful
> manuals I have ever attempted to use.  1000 pages, and
> you have to hunt through them to find the tiny
> diagrams with extrememly technical info that you don't
> need...
>
> just M(not so)HO
>
> Mark
>
> --- Ken Nelson <bm30@uswest.net> wrote:
> > Chilton's . Avaialble at about any parts store. Stay
> > away from Haynes
> > though. Haynes is not nessarily correct and the
> > parts where you really need
> > it it says take it in to a shop.
> > Ken Nelson
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Bias" <rbias@hotmail.com>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:51 AM
> > Subject: Plea for help (no Vanagon content)
> >
> >
> > > All,
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> =====
> Mark
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it
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