Thread: HAYNES LAND ROVER DEFENDER FEB 07-16 REPAIR MANUAL

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

You are not looking 'ard enough!
The factory manual has heaps of assembly and disassembly info, incl torque values and testing procedures for parts. The electrical reference is incredibly useful. It's not going to give you acceptable tolerances for engine components (crank journal diameters etc), but I doubt haynes would give this either? (happy to be proven wrong).
In any case the hardcore tech info is outside the skillset of the punters who buy those books anyway.

I wes real enjoy ing my factory manual before the Disc driver died.

You are quite right about levels of information required for levels of ability. Many amateurs, including myself, will farm out bearing journals, cylinder boors, crank shafts etc etc, to machine shops.

Pickles,
You could pay an exorbitant price to someone like me to print and bind you a copy.
Or you could use a free, electronic copy like everyone else living in the 21st century.


The point I'm really getting at, is as nice as a haynes manual sounds, it's just an abridged version of the best - and only resource, IMO.
The way the auto industry works is that they make many times the profit from parts than they do from new vehicle sales. So every resource (design, engineering etc) is also aligned with getting solid reference material compiled to help them optimise this revenue stream thru their parts departments, service techs, and OE accessories peddlers. From what I understand, they work on approx 20years parts support, before the aftermarket comes in when certain OE parts dry up.
If you think a 300 page printed book could trump a resource that has had 500+ engineers, parts developers and CAD drawings involved in its development, then I'm sorry, but your money will be poorly spent.