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Online car manuals!

Wow, thanks for sharing!

What a gold mine! I've always wanted to see the TSBs.. but I'm too cheap
for an Alldata subscription.

I already leeched them for the 87 16v Scirocco. Those of you who run
Linux can do this by just viewing the TSBs in a web browser, picking your
car and model year, etc. then looking in your cookie jar and writing down
the relevant numbers for cookies CFID and CFTOKEN. Plug them in in place
of XXXXXX and YYYYYYYY.

Then run:
wget -k -r -p --cookies=off --header "Cookie: CFID=XXXXXX; CFTOKEN=YYYYYYYY"
"http://www.e-toolbox.com/ads/tsb1.cfm";

Since the webmaster of this site was an idiot and used backslashes
instead of forward slashes, you have to run a script like this to fix the
links (run it in ~/www.e-toolbox.com/pdf/):

#!/bin/sh
for I in *.pdf; do
  DIR=`echo $I | cut -d\\\  -f1`
  NAME=`echo $I | cut -d\\\  -f2`
  [ ! -d $DIR ]&&mkdir $DIR
  mv -v $I $DIR/$NAME
done

Now you will have a directory called www.e-toolbox.com (rename it, duh)
and you can view the TSBs offline by just opening:
file://localhost/path/to/your/homedir/www.e-toolbox.com/ads/tsb1.cfm

Much easier than downloading all 428 pdf files by hand! "Right click, Save
Target As..", "Right click, Save Target As..", "Right click, Save Target
As..", etc.

-Toby

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Mark wrote:

> Gleaned this link off the Megasquirt email list...
>
> http://www.e-toolbox.com/ads/
>
> I checked it out, and it's the real thing.  There's a TON of info there.
> I just looked at the Ford Escort EDIS system I have to find in the
> junkyards, and there was some good info on how it works, and where to
> find the stuff, torque specs, etc...
>
> Handy link to have around if you're like me - the "car guy" that all
> your friends and family come to if they've got a problem with their
> car...
>
> Mark.
> 80 S
> 81 S  ABA/JH/4K
>
>
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