The joy of automobile repair

By C.J. Becker

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895810255
• ISBN13: 9780895810250
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Lancaster-Miller
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

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Though it's 24 years old, this is still the best book on auto repair, at least for those who've gotten past the fear of changing the oil in their own car. Becker talks about many of the things you have to deal with in real life that aren't covered in most manuals. These are notes from the grease pit, not from some writer who talked to an automotive engineer who thought, on the spur of the moment, about how to work on a real car (of course, an automotive engineer could not be expected to touch a car, except perhaps to drive one. It would be demeaning to have to perform auto repair ;-)This is a great supplement to the Chilton and (better) Haynes books, both of which are abridgements of the much better manufacturer's shop manuals - the real manuals don't seem to expect much imagination or mechanical intuition on the part of the reader and therefore go into much more detail than the commercial books. But both seem to follow the form: Remove the obvious wires; remove the obvious bolts; now, remanufacture the engine. That is, they go into excruciating detail about the obvious things, while avoiding any detail about the few things that aren't obvious. Becker fills in the gaps.I just wish for two things:Becker whould write an update to this book;Becker would write anything else - he's a great writer.