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Originally Posted by hatzie
2,500 service manual pages is a bunch of work. Service manuals are pretty difficult. The pages are thin and they're usually glue spine bound like paperback books that you need to get carefully cut off.
I scanned @7,000 pages from all six 73-91 parts books and Ian Harding hosted them on gmpartswiki.com for us. They are posted by publishing date and not coverage date so... Thankfully they are all loose leaf 3 ring bound on heavy bond paper the sheetfeed scanner passed them through in several hours over 5 days.
Several reasons to do this. The parts manuals are searchable PDF files now and I can bag the originals to keep them dry and stuff them in a metal box in the attic.
Helm is no longer printing the wiring manuals and some of mine are getting a little yellow around the edges. Not brittle yet but that's the next step.
Electronic copies backed up to the cloud in several places keeps them available to everyone and it'll be difficult to loose access to them via age and acts of god.
It's good Karma too. |
My 1973 Chevy Light Truck Service Manual has 979 pages! It's almost exhausting looking through that thing, lol!