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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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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Mustangs
84.5 Gt T-top
85 Gt
$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.
Scotty
1985 Fox Notch 4-banger Ranger tube header Eastwood Royal Blue
1988 Fox LX 5.0 AOD Vert BBK 170mph speedo Candy Apple Red
1999 Mustang Coupe V6 Auto Chrome Yellow -Daily Driver.
Past Pony's.....
68 Coupe Inline-6 3-Speed-Man. Primer
78 II Hatch 302 3-Speed-Auto Sunroof Black
81 4-Eye Coupe 4-Banger 4-Speed-Man. White
Yes great buy is right! I have paid $60.00 to $80.00 for sets like those, very nice!
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.
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.
" If you're not living life on the edge, that means you're taking up too much room."
1979 Mustang Indy Pace 2.3T/4spd (sold on 1/10/16)
1983 GLX vert 3.8/auto (triple black, sold on 10/8/13)
1984 (early) Turbo GT (parts SLOWLY coming together)
1985 Coupe 4.6L DOHC/IRS swapped (sold 9/10/17)
1986 GT TTop 5spd (sold as of 10/8/13)
1988 Thunderbird TurboCoupe (Cobra IRS/Brakes/big turbo project)
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
Mustangs
84.5 Gt T-top
85 Gt
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.
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.
Fox Body/3rd Gen MCA Gold Card Judge
84 SVO 24K miles, 85 Mclaren Capri Vert. 84 GT Turbo Vert.
88 Mclaren Mustang Vert 20K miles, 89 Mustang LX Sport Vert,
03 Mach 1 7900 miles, 74 Mustang II, 69 Mustang, 67 Mustang, 07 GT500,
14 Mustang CS/GT, 15 F150 FTX Tuscany, 16 F250 Crewcab, 67 Tbird 47K miles
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