Godlykepower Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Do workshop manuals exist in electronic form? I wouldnt mind getting my hands on a copy if there is! My reason being, it might be handy having this information to hand in Africa? Where would I get an actual hard copy if one does not exist electronically? Might be handy if this is the case, to just rip out all the unnecessary pages to save space & weight. Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madcowz Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Do workshop manuals exist in electronic form?I wouldnt mind getting my hands on a copy if there is! My reason being, it might be handy having this information to hand in Africa? Where would I get an actual hard copy if one does not exist electronically? Might be handy if this is the case, to just rip out all the unnecessary pages to save space & weight. Martin There are some here: On my site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishbosh Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Or, maybe, just perhaps, you could take a look in the Tech archive....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godlykepower Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 Thats brilliant! Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godlykepower Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 Or, maybe, just perhaps, you could take a look in the Tech archive....... Thing with the tech archive (as far as I can tell) is that it is a collection of threads on very specific subjects. If I were needing info for doing some job myself, at home, then this is where I would look. As I want to have some information available that I could pass on if needs be, to a random mechanic in the middle of Africa, then I reckon a workshop manual would be better, as I obviously wont have t'interweb connection on tap to look up this info. Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD5 power Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 i think bishbosh was refering to the rave manuals which are land rover's electronic manuals for the 200tdi engined vehicles onwards until current models, all are available at the bottom of madcowz website. hth matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobson Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 You can download them off the interweb, as they've said, but i'd advise having both software and a hard copy, if you only have a laptop copy and your laptop goes t*ts up (and they always do it at the most inconvenient time!) then you're buggered! not only that, but if (heaven forbid) you get robbed or have the vehicle broken into, who's going to nick an old workshop manual over a shiny laptop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromit Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 I mainly just use the parts catalog in PDF form. Shows you where all the bits go and what to expect when pulling something apart. Plus, obviously, you have the part numbers for ordering replacements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godlykepower Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 It has been suggested to me that taking a hard copy of a workshop manual is overkill? The reason I thought about it was if I ever needed to take the vehicle to a mechanic in Africa, he would have access to technical information if needs be. The suggestion, went on to, er, suggest that I take a Haynes manual hard copy, and the workshop manual electronically. And where would I get a PDF parts catalogue from then? Then may be handy to have if the diagrams are exploded? Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromit Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 And where would I get a PDF parts catalogue from then? Then may be handy to have if the diagrams are exploded? It is very handy. I have it on another machine that I'm having a palava with getting the motherboard replaced, so I've no access to it at the moment. I passed it around the forum a few times over the last few years so I'm sure someone could host it. It's about 20Mb from memory. I could do with it myself I think for your trip, I'd have a hardcopy of it just for a worst-case scenario as suggested above. (edited to add, that the parts cat would be useful to point at the pictures to your bush mechanic, whereas the workshop manual is lots and lots of text, with some diagrams) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madcowz Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 The Land Rover One Ten (1987 Model) Parts Catalogue is on my site under "Defender, Ninety & One Ten Manuals" If anyone has a later version or a manual/parts catalogue that I am missing, I would appreciate a copy. I can give you a FTP address to upload to and I will add it to the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazelle Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Thing with the tech archive (as far as I can tell) is that it is a collection of threads on very specific subjects. If I were needing info for doing some job myself, at home, then this is where I would look.As I want to have some information available that I could pass on if needs be, to a random mechanic in the middle of Africa, then I reckon a workshop manual would be better, as I obviously wont have t'interweb connection on tap to look up this info. Martin Bish is pointing you to the section in the tech archive which is called "manuals", rather than suggesting that you access it on line! If you look in the index and scroll down, you will come across links to all sorts of manuals. Cheers Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godlykepower Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 Ah! Thanks for that, I just didnt scroll down far enough to notice the manuals section! Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromit Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 The Land Rover One Ten (1987 Model) Parts Catalogue is on my site under "Defender, Ninety & One Ten Manuals" That's the one, cheers Madcowz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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