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Date:         Mon, 10 Jul 1995 20:35:05 -0400
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         DocTaylor@aol.com
Subject:      Re: #1(3) VANAGON digest 525

In a message dated 95-07-10 10:34:50 EDT, you write:


>Whew!  A most thorough defense, Steve. ;-)
>
>My .02 (we must have about $10.00 by now) is to use the Holy Trilogy:  
>Haynes, for detail and experience ("Each manual is based on a compleat 
>breakdown, blah, blah...); Bentley, for the tight%ss method ("using VW tool 
>#3458394 and shaving all body hair before beginning work"), etc.; and 
>Muir, for the how-to-do-it portion, rather how the Compleat Idiot would 
>do it.  I, too, was more-or-less an 
>automotive ignurt before I bought my first car (a VW, of course).  
>
>JKH--Alburquerque
>'70 Kombi (on it's way back--today=new ignition switch)


Excellent description of the Bentley manual!  I wish Haynes had one for the
diesel Vanagon.  Did Muir ever go into the VW diesels?


BTW  I used to have a '67 van.
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