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    Default Found these manuals at a swap meet today. Any good?

    Went to a local swap meet and found this set of 5 manuals for 84 cars. Anybody used these before? Any good? Paid about 15 bucks for them all. Also got a sales brochure for 1984 mustangs.
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    $15 for all.....great buy! They are invaluable for rebuilds or even general maintenance. Those make a Haynes manual seem like a pamphlet. I've seen the brochure sell for $5-10 alone.

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    Yes great buy is right! I have paid $60.00 to $80.00 for sets like those, very nice!

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    Those are the real deal. Official Ford Shop manual set by Helm Publishing. None better.
    No electricity needed.
    Whenever i get a new ride, have ordered the set for it.
    Plus spares from meets too. Books wear out and can get dirty.
    15.00 for them is a steal, especially in that condition. They cost much more new.
    Never do work on the car without them handy. The books that Ford wrote.
    The Official Ford EVTM electrical troubleshooting manual would complete that set.
    The (Un) Official Mustang 5.0 Handbook 79-93 is good for tech ref.

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    Not worth the money...... box them up and send them to me and I will be kind enough to give you $20 plus the shipping cost.........

    In all seriousness, add a 0 to the paid price and they would be worth it.
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    Thanks, for the info guys. Not many times where I find a deal like that so I'm pretty stocked. Funny thing was before I seen these another guy had one of them with the cover ripped off and told me he wanted 30 bucks for it. Lol
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    I have complete sets from 1978 or so up until the late 80s, plus a set for every F/L/M car I own or have owned, as well as various other companies.
    Chilton/Clymer/Haynes are handy, but there's nothing like a factory service manual to show you the nuts and bolts of your exact car.

    What are they worth to you? Answer that after you've tried to fix something deep in your dashboard, looking at a generic Haynes picture of some car that may or may not be the same year, model, or even make as the one you're trying to fix. What was the order of the little spring-loaded damper piece way up there, that flew apart when you tried to take it off? It's a nice clear drawing in the Ford manual, and once you get the pattern of the chapters/pages/sections you'll be bouncing through the manual even for jobs you've done before, because you STILL might learn a little trick to it.

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    I think i paid $150-200 for them back in the day when the car was new. I would not part with them until the car is gone.
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