Is this publication any good for a 1600?

[DAC21]

I know there is much better material for download here on 311s, but I like a book in my hand while in the garage without killing a tree by printing the available on-line manuals. Does this book have any value, it less than $15 vs the $50 service manual I see floating around which I realize is probably the Gold Standard.

Thank you

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[Habitat.pat]

Dennis,

I've been doing shade tree wrenching since the 60's & never liked Chilton manuals. They never seemed to have the information I was looking for & they repeated stuff literally 5 or more times in different parts of the manual to pad out the size of the manual. Having said that, I also seem to recall that one of the factory Roadster manuals was produced by Chilton, but I could be wrong. For $15 I'd say it was a good deal. Any manual is better than none.

Peace,
Pat

[Gregs672000]

Well,I learned everything mechanical with my trusty Chiltons manual for my 620 PU when I was a kid, so maybe they vary. I recently used my Haynes manual for a 620 to help me on a Roadster question.

[theunz]

Some are better than others, but all are better than nothing. Each manual may have something the others don’t, or often a picture that shows just how that fiddily part fits. For 15 bucks why not?

[spl310]

Chiltons has most of the details that you will need, but it will require digging and understanding to find it. You can download the factory shop manuals here - free is very good.

[funkaholik]

I have the manual pictured, in addition to the 1600/2000 specific manual. It is very basic and covers a little bit about a lot of models. It IS better than nothing, though!

I, too, like having a book in my hand. You could probably get by ok using this and then printing just specific pages off the free internet version of the Sports manual.

[jrusso07]

The best thing I like about this manual is having all of the tune up specs in one table. It's my go to for tune ups.