Best Body & Fender Repair
This book teaches you how to select the proper tools for the job, common-sense approaches to the task ahead of you, preparing and cleaning sheet metal, section fabrications and repair patches, welding options such as gas and electric, forming, fitting and smoothing, cutting metal, final metal finishing including filling and sanding, the secrets of lead filling, making panels fit properly, and more.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Great book to teach this hard skill."
"This book shows how to learn how to do proper body work."
"I bought this for my son who is really beginning to enjoy working and learning about cars."
"Very detailed how to and commentary."
"Covers the basics for dealing with rust, which is what I was looking for."
"great book to teach you how to get rid of rust and all the tips are great."
"This is a good, comprehensive manual for beginning and intermediate do-it-yourself body work folks."
"Well done, clear and understanable."
Covers 100/6, 3000 Mk.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is by far the most complete of the manuals available. That difficulty is essential because many of our cars have parts from earlier or later versions. If you don't have a manual with the complete cycle, you might not know what you are looking at. I find that this book with the Autobooks manual, is enough to get me by most everything."
"Whether you are trying to trace the path of a wire, replacing the rear seals or trying to figure out why the overdrive isn't working, this manual will go far in guiding you through the process."
"Prompt delivery at a very good price."
"Must have for refurbished your big healey."
"Even if you don't work on your Healey, the information contained therein is good to know."
"This is a reprint of the original manual with excellent illustrations and all the specifications you need."
"Very helpful shop manual and a good value, well detailed and includes all specifications needed in rebuild of motor, transmission, brakes and so on."
Eddie Paul is a master at sheet metal fabrication (among other accomplishments), and in this book he gives readers the means to mold their own sheet metal creations. Beginning as a self-taught welder, painter, metal fabricator, and machinist, Eddie Paul has gone from customizer to creator, designer to inventor.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book is very good.!!"
"tough to cover everything in depth , but very resourceful."
"The first few pages had great info!"
"Sheet Metal Fabrication: Techniques and Tips for Beginners and Pros (Motorbooks Workshop). Be prepared this book will open your eyes,With it's easy to understand language for the beginners,tips and tricks that will save the pro a lot of time.If you can weld and paint then this book is for you.If you are a pro stuck on how to do a particular Custom job then you NEED this book.+."
"gave me the tips I required and was shipped fast."
"this book is a good read with lots and lots of very relevant. info on the subject matter it shows quite a lot of tricks that. are used in every day work to achieve the customers desires and. in doing so provides plenty of good information and tips to the reader."
"Definately lacking something, I have done the job for 25 years and thought I might pick up something new as I believe you are never to young to learn new techniques."
Best Suspension & Chassis
Chassis Engineering explains the complex principles of suspension geometry and chassis design in terms the novice can easily understand and apply to any project. Herb Adams is the author of Chassis Engineering: Chassis Design, Building & Tuning for High Performance Handling.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Awesome information for someone looking to get into chassis building."
"The different forces acting on the car during acceleration, braking, cornering and when the suspension is compressed, are explained."
"This is a very useful book that provides some valuable insights on how to improve the handling of your street car or race car."
"This book goes into detail about custom chassis design."
"I am a beginning hot rod builder and maybe not the best rater based on my "one of a kind" build, however I found the major focus to be on race cars."
"Great book if you are sereiosuly into cars and want to start to understand how all of the components work."
"Something as simple as building a model and testing the forces gave me the assurance that my design was sound."
"Written in 1992, so it is really out of date, OK for beginners, but same stuff is on the Net for free."
Best Automotive Testing & Certification
Easy-to-follow procedures, detailed illustrations and comprehensive specifications help guide you through complete tractor maintenance and repair with accuracy and efficiency.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent reference."
"seems to have what I needed."
"Must have if doing your own repair."
"This book provides a very 'no-nonsense' approach to repair of these tractors."
"Have looked through manual but didn't need to do any work or fix anything yet!"
Best Automotive Engine Mechanics
Inside this manual you will find routine maintenance, tune-up procedures, engine repair, cooling and heating, air conditioning, fuel and exhaust, emissions control, ignition, brakes, suspension and steering, electrical systems, and wiring diagrams. Each manual contains easy to follow step-by-step instructions linked to hundreds of photographs and illustrations.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Comprehensive review of error codes as well as instructions on replacing many components of your auto."
"Good general maintenance manual but certainly you need the actual vehicle service manual to aid in system specifics and troubleshooting,"
"We live, we learn !"
"Very informative, we'll written book."
"The book is packed with detailed information and is an easy read."
Best Automotive Fuel Systems
Next the book builds on that foundation, helping the reader to understand the different options available: Re-tuning factory ECUs, add on piggyback computers, or all out standalone engine management systems. Awarded the 2010 International Automotive Media Awards Bronze Medal for best written Technical Reference Book (2nd place award, there was no silver in 2010).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It's also 100% focused on automotive systems, which probably is where 99.9% of their customers (and the authors' experience) are, but I would have appreciated an overview of the challenges that are specific to motorcycle, marine, and aviation applications."
"This book would have been absolutely invaluable when I was piecing together my Megasquirt setup for my BBC 454."
"Whether you are thinking about, or currently are standalone and maybe need to brush up on some stuff, this is the book for you."
"Gives a run down and basic listing of most known after-market stand alone EFI systems and what they will allow you to accomplish, making deciding on which unit you want a snap. The detail here is brilliant, giving you a place to start with everything from calculating and finding ideal ignition timing to engine fueling needs in warm-up and acceleration enrichment."
"It spends a lot of time talking about ways to retrofit EFI onto carb motors, and spends a good deal of time talking about how each of the major manufacturers design and manage their EFI, but not touching on Porsche, BMW and others."
"Since the authors of the book, Matt Cramer and Jerry Hoffman, distribute MegaSquirt units via diyautotune.com, it was the smart thing to purchase their book."
"If you want to get better understanding of EFI systems and tuning concepts in general then this book is for you and I highly recommend it."
"I was hoping that it would actually dig more into how to properly set up a standalone fuel management system in a conservative fashion so the engine is not damaged during the preliminary test phase."
Best Automotive Air Conditioning & Heating
The fifth edition of Delmar's Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Test Preparation Manual for the A7 HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING certification exam contains an abundance of content designed to help you successfully pass your ASE exam. Find learning solutions to boost your career, augment your curriculum, improve your training courses or help you master new skills, from the leader in skills based solutions for educational institutions, businesses, and professionals - Delmar, a part of Cengage Learning.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Passing an ASE test is more about understanding the way these systems work, not memorization."
"Like mentioned before I know several techs that are far more experienced than myself and they all told me that A7 took them several times to pass."
"Was not very happy when I found that in one test according to the answer key I missed 5 questions that where actually correct when I went to the explanation."
"Didn't really work as a stand alone study guide."
"Good book to get to study for the ASE test."
"Whoever did the proofreading and editing should be fired."
"Found a good bit of errors in the answer key."
"Hardly none of the questions were on the real test."
Best Vehicle Design & Construction
Chassis Engineering explains the complex principles of suspension geometry and chassis design in terms the novice can easily understand and apply to any project. Herb Adams is the author of Chassis Engineering: Chassis Design, Building & Tuning for High Performance Handling.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Awesome information for someone looking to get into chassis building."
"The different forces acting on the car during acceleration, braking, cornering and when the suspension is compressed, are explained."
"This is a very useful book that provides some valuable insights on how to improve the handling of your street car or race car."
"This book goes into detail about custom chassis design."
"I am a beginning hot rod builder and maybe not the best rater based on my "one of a kind" build, however I found the major focus to be on race cars."
"Great book if you are sereiosuly into cars and want to start to understand how all of the components work."
"Something as simple as building a model and testing the forces gave me the assurance that my design was sound."
"Written in 1992, so it is really out of date, OK for beginners, but same stuff is on the Net for free."
Best Automotive Electrical Systems
Inside this manual you will find routine maintenance, tune-up procedures, engine repair, cooling and heating, air conditioning, fuel and exhaust, emissions control, ignition, brakes, suspension and steering, electrical systems, and wiring diagrams. Each manual contains easy to follow step-by-step instructions linked to hundreds of photographs and illustrations.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Good general maintenance manual but certainly you need the actual vehicle service manual to aid in system specifics and troubleshooting,"
"I brought this technical book to use with my OBD II scan tool."
"I wiah I knew that the Pcodes in this book are free to Google off the Internet along with the recommended trouble-shooting procedures to repair same."
"Alot of good information."