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As for the Bentley Manual




--- Julie Macfarlane <juliemac@telenet.net> wrote:
> I have bought the VW guide for idiots, chiltons and
> the vw book. Each one
> describes procedures slightly differently and at
> different skill levels.
> 
> Julie
> '81 Scirocco
> '85 Jetta
> '83 Rabid GTI (soon)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of
> Foxx (in a box)
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:32 PM
> To: Bill Scarince
> Cc: Jorel; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: shift linkages and tranny seals
> 
> 
> > If you're going to keep this car and even consider
> doing any work on it,
> you
> > must buy a Bentley.  Trust me, you cannot live
> without one.  I can not
> 
>   see, here i have to disagree. i don't have a
> bentley, i only have a
> haynes manual. sure, you might say that it doesn't
> cover this or doesn't
> cover that, but the bentley is the same way. the
> manual comes in handy
> for reference, but when one gets down to the dirty,
> the manual could as
> well be chucked. hell, when we changed my clutch in
> the '85 i only used
> the manual to find out to line the v in the flywheel
> up. other than
> that, the manual sat by the wayside until i needed
> torquing specs. the
> bentley may be the bible of vw owners, but i read
> that and the regular
> bible about the same.
> 
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As for the Bentley manual, I ordered it at amazon who
can no longer find it. Anyone know of other sources?

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