1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
It's okay but not great, 2007-03-30
It's a detent starters, but if you know how to search on the web, you can find the Helms manual which is much better. The big flaw of Haynes is that if you don't know where to search for a part, the close-up won't help you locate it.
It also won't help you troubleshoot soemthing. For that join a forum or club, and use the book as a reference to do the repair once troubleshooting is done.
I used it for electrical and for such it's fine...
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
excellent! timely!, 2007-01-19
I way out in the middle east, and I got this item in a much faster time than anything else i've been sent!!! bravo zulu!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
good for basic repair and maintenance, 2006-12-12
i have used this manual several times for basic maintenance
and simple repairs.
well worth the price. will probably pay for itself
the first time you use it instead of paying someone
else to do the work.
good section on tuneups and routine maintenance.
appears to cover any work i would be inclined to attempt.
well illustrated and easy to follow
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
attention!!!!, 2005-08-16
this book does not cover all sohc engines from 92-95!!!
d16a7 and many more are not included.
does not cover ecu types as well.
very basic book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Errors and misprints galore. Pictures unclear., 2004-02-08
This is a decent general reference book, but as I was troubleshooting an ignition problem I found that color codes and positions of wires listed are incorrect. The illustrations are black and white, grainy, and very small. Additionally they certainly appear contradict the instructions in the text.Example : a drawing labels 4 wires coming off of a part as a,b,c,d and gives the color codes. These don't match the real part. Then the instructions say check the resistance between a and c, but the photo shows them checking between b and d. The color codes are right for the picture, but the labeled position is wrong - or is it the other way around .... who knows ????? Many of the photos are too small and grainy to verify what is being checked anyway, so now your really lost.
Another example, a section tells you to remove all the wires from the terminals on a part (so that only the case is electrically connected to the ground). Now you are asked to verify that there is voltage between terminal X and ground. How could there be!?!? Not finding any is supposed to tell you the part is bad. The photo shows it being checked with all wires connected. ?!?!? BTW one of these check is for resisitance between two teminals that show 12V between them - ZAP! there went your VOM fuse!
From these types of checks you are expected to determine if a part is faulty or not. If you have two identical hondas, one working and one not, you could use this book to get the gist of what you are supposed to be checking, otherwise its pretty useless.
There is a decent section on trouble codes which seems to be correct if not complete, and other than the nitpicky details it seems to be a good guide, but they assume the user has a good bit of knowledge and don't go into enough detail on alot of steps.