<VV> RE: Newb Reference Material

[Bill Hubbell]

My first Corvair books were the Chilton manuals of the day - not the little
green Corvair-only book sold later, but the big thick blue tomes that
contained information on not only the Corvair but the other cars of the
line.  Chilton used to put out a new book each year, I think, and my dad
usually had a few of these around home - back in the days when everybody
used to work on their own cars.  

True, the Chilton manuals aren't as much help now, when we are dealing with
40+ year-old cars, but they were the king of their day, and they put the
crap that is sold for new cars now to shame.

Bill Hubbell

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Chris & Bill
Strickland
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 9:11 PM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: Newb Reference Material - was: RE: <VV> Engine ID

The thing to remember is perspective -- yes, all these books are great, 
but How On Earth did we ever manage to work on Corvairs before these 
books were written -- well, they are like a lot of other cars,  four 
cycle internal combustion, overhead valve, gasoline fueled, spark 
ignition, suck, squeeze, bang, phooey!  The school of hard knocks was a 
pretty good teacher -- some mistakes got made, but that is why people 
wrote books

If one had a few specs and some mechanical common sense, it really 
wasn't too hard.  Perhaps that is why the Finch and Fisher books have 
the reputation they do -- for a lot of people, they were their first 
Corvair books, even before the shop manuals!  And if you had a shop 
manual, it was probably a year or two out of date anyway ...

So, while the books are nice, if one has a bit of automotive common 
sense, they are not truly necessary if one has to choose between a book 
and a rod bearing, take the bearing!  You can't get a bearing from the 
library!

Bill S

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