A seven hour round trip is quite a ride for manuals but if that's the only place you can find them I guess you would need to fire up one of the Saturns and hit the road.

Have you considered going straight to the source?

(August 22, 2020 at 7:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(August 22, 2020 at 7:22 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Yeah. I have seen those. They are a step up from a Haynes or Chiltons - but they are not as complete as the factory manual.

I have a couple sets of factory.The 95 set is three heavy three ring folders weighing about 10 lbs. It covers an insane amount of information.

This guy was selling the 96 and the 2001 set with the 2002 addendums. (2002 was the last s-series and nearly identical to 2001).

He only wanted $50 for both. Cheap for the factory editions.

Since they’re that cheap, drive on over and pick them up, you lazy #!\*%$. 

Boru

I would - and might when I get done remodeling the bathroom and kitchen......

Till that's done nothing else is getting done.

(August 22, 2020 at 7:22 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:

(August 22, 2020 at 6:54 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: https://justgivemethedamnmanual.com/serv...n/S_Series

Yeah. I have seen those. They are a step up from a Haynes or Chiltons - but they are not as complete as the factory manual.

I have a couple sets of factory.The 95 set is three heavy three ring folders weighing about 10 lbs. It covers an insane amount of information.

This guy was selling the 96 and the 2001 set with the 2002 addendums. (2002 was the last s-series and nearly identical to 2001).

He only wanted $50 for both. Cheap for the factory editions.

FSM are the gold standard for repairing a vehicle. Chilton's is a joke, and Hayne's is worse. I had an '81 Buick Le Sabre and had some trouble with the "check engine" light coming on, intermittently. The Haynes book gave some minimal diagnostic clues, and then said, "take it to a professional" if their clues didn't work.   I was working as an electrical engineer at the time, so I wasn't working as a "professional" mechanic, anymore. I didn't have time to dick with it, so took it to one of my friends to get it fixed, and he had the REAL manual that took one through the flow chart for an effective repair. I had access to the "professional" manuals when I worked as a mechanic. They are day and night different from Haynes and Chiltons, although Chilton's is, as I mentioned, better. I think I paid $35 for the FSM for that Buick, but I paid that in '92. The prices only go up on them. Back in the day, it was "Motor's Manuals" that were the straight dope on how to fix things. I have the Factory Service Manual for my '70 Chevy truck, which I bought from an online vendor for about $40. Worth every penny. I also have the Factory Assembly Manual, which shows how to put the truck together like they did at the factory, and how the optional equipment is installed. Massively helpful when working on it. It shows things like how the heater hoses should be routed, for example. One wouldn't think that that would be a big deal, but if a strain is put on a component, it is eventually going to fail from that strain. It's why manufacturers have molded hoses for their cooling systems. With enough expansion and contraction, one of those "universal fit" hoses are going to tear the nipple off the radiator or the heater core. Always at the worst possible time, too, it would seem. YMMV

Burn his house down.

My first vehicle was a 70 C 10....


A truck.that drove like a car.

(August 22, 2020 at 5:48 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

(August 22, 2020 at 5:43 pm)Fireball Wrote: Boxes are hard. 

I won't claim I was the fastest box folder in pizza chain history, but back in the late 90s early 2000s I worked for a major pizza chain. But for my single store, where I worked, when I got into bundle box folding bets with other co workers, I beat them every time. Cant say I could do that now being older. But back then, I would have taken anyone on in folding pizza boxes. 

Boxes are NOT hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY

I still don't know what FSM stands for in a car repair context and don't really care. I was just thinking, "Ok, so the Flying Spaghetti Monster makes car manuals. Is there anything that guy can't do?!"

Factory service manual.

(August 22, 2020 at 9:35 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:

(August 22, 2020 at 7:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Since they’re that cheap, drive on over and pick them up, you lazy #!\*%$. 

Boru

I would - and might when I get done remodeling the bathroom and kitchen......

Till that's done nothing else is getting done.

JFC, just mail him an empty box .............. in a box.

And don't forget the tape.