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Old 05-06-2011, 09:38 AM   #5
Tom Wesenberg
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Default Re: Ford repair shop manuals

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Originally Posted by CarlG View Post
When I was in High School, I overhauled an automatic transmission in my 52 Merc using only a Motos's Manual.
I rebuild my first Corvair Spyder 4 speed tranny using the Motor's manual pictures. Unfortunately the picture of the sychro was wrong and showed the synchro backwards, so I had to pull the tranny a second time to figure out why I couldn't shift into 4th gear. After all that extra work I figured that was one lesson I wouldn't forget, but about 6 years latter when I had to overhaul another Corvair 4 speed for a customer I made the mistake of looking at that picture again. No, it won't happen again!!!!
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