<VV> Re: manual.... rantings... It's my perrogative!

[Frog Princezz]

As someone stated earlier it was most likely that some of you GUYS were gearhead while still in diapers, while us GALS were sugar and spice. So yeah most guy do understand the manuals (mainly cause of the pictures).
Once I found out the name thermostat bellows is when I thought cooling system but I would have never thought... "Engine - Cooling System" and that's one reason I still couldn't find the information.  I was looking for the words that came to mind "Cooling System"  nothing more nothing less. 
Read the manual from cover to cover and go through the assembly and disassembly .... good idea but I want to drive my car this year not tear it apart and spend the next 3 year putting her back together.
When I can find what I'm looking for the books are the next best thing since sliced bread but when I can't I rant and pout and throw the book against the wall and cry to you guys... why?  Because that's my perrogative as the "GIRL OF THE GROUP!"   =)



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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:24:47 -0500
From: "Crawford Rose" 
Subject: manuals, "software", etc
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I think of the complaint listed regarding thermostat bellows being titled mysteriously as a "cooling system" and referring to the lack of ease of use of the shop manuals as really unfounded. I learned to work on cars with Hot Rod magazine and watching other people work. But I REALLY learned how to work on cars with my 1961 GM corvair shop manual. Now, say what you will about the lack of exploded diagrams, if one reads the document from beginning to end one would know from the disassembly and re-assembly descriptions what parts were called, how they operate in principle, and the order of their removal. Further, Clarks for one, reprints and sells the Assembly Manuals for each year model with much data and part numbers for assembling the cars in an orderly manner. I find these invaluable for routing hoses and the order of putting my dash parts and "systems" back into a car that has been apart over a year. Finally, even the used parts vendor catalogs are filled with all mann!
er of information with exploded diagrams, head bolt torque and patterns, etc. that the shop manuals may lack. To some degree (I don't like his analogy to software) I think Joe Potts is correct, we need to beat the learning curve before becoming victims of frustration. If by circumstances owning an old Corvair is "necessary" and working on it yourself is "necessary," use all that time on your hands to learn the process for approaching any job with the right tools and the right procedures. As many will attest, I think that Corsa members are the best resource for solving almost any question about Corvairs if you lack the other resources. Finally, with respect to the cooling system, obvious similarities with other cars with remote engine to body heater hoses such as volkswagen and porsche should refute criticism of this time-proven design of heat conduction into the passenger compartment. While different in design, absence of the hoses causes no more harm to the engine cooli!
ng system of a Corvair than worn out thermostat bellows causing the air doors to remain open.
Crawford