Anyone possibly have this PDF...
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I owned 3 Mustang 5.0's and wrenched them all. Somehow I feel like a Lotus wont be that hard to work on. Its just a matter of time and proper equipment you know.
But reading through these daily posts, it seems the Esprit has some things I never even heard of before! LOL
Anyways to the point, I want to learn about the internals and mechanics of the later model Esprits, say SE n/a to the s4s. All of those Esprit variations in between which includes, n/a, turbo, Esprit SE, S4, S4s, whatever had different upgrades to their drive train and so on.
In other words, does anyone have a PDF or something of a work shop manual, or something that shows a blueprint with labels as to what parts are what and so on. I want to be able to familiarize myself with the Esprit. That way im not lost when the time comes.
Sorry for the long post. I tend to ramble.
Paul
>>> Edited by Lotusacbc on Monday 15th March 14:41
But reading through these daily posts, it seems the Esprit has some things I never even heard of before! LOL
Anyways to the point, I want to learn about the internals and mechanics of the later model Esprits, say SE n/a to the s4s. All of those Esprit variations in between which includes, n/a, turbo, Esprit SE, S4, S4s, whatever had different upgrades to their drive train and so on.
In other words, does anyone have a PDF or something of a work shop manual, or something that shows a blueprint with labels as to what parts are what and so on. I want to be able to familiarize myself with the Esprit. That way im not lost when the time comes.
Sorry for the long post. I tend to ramble.
Paul
>>> Edited by Lotusacbc on Monday 15th March 14:41
Hi, I think I saw someone selling a CD-Rom on www.ebay.co.uk earlier today with the full parts reference in PDF format, for Esprits 88-92.
Cheers, Richard.
Cheers, Richard.
Your best bet is to pick up the shop manuals. You can find them on eBay from time to time, or order them directly from Lotus. They aren't cheap, but worth the cost if you're going to do work on your own.
PDFs and CDs online aren't really legal, not to mention sometimes it's better to have a physical manual to look through.
PDFs and CDs online aren't really legal, not to mention sometimes it's better to have a physical manual to look through.
I will agree with having an actual hard copy shop manual handy. I currently have a full Honda service manual for my accord on CD which makes things nice since I can print just the page(s) I need, however in a lot of cases manuals tend to refer to other pages for subassembly removal which means I need to clean up, come in the house and print additional pages I need. Having a complete manual where I can just flip a couple pages back or forward for the information I need makes the job at hand much less stressful and less likely for mistake wondering "where was I again?". I suppose the advantage of having the manual on CD is that you could print ever single page and keep it in a binder of some sort but it seems to me that printing 5-600 pages worth of manual is going a bit overboard when you could have bought a nice new shop manual and saved yourself the several hours it took to print the CD version. This of course is only my personal preference. However as in the case of my Honda manual the person who assembled the manual chose to scan every page as a .jpg file which also has a tendancy to lose resolution with text making reading the print sometimes difficult.
Blake
Blake
Having the manual on CD is a Godsend if you ask me. The day or the day before you do the job, print out all the pages you need and skim through them, just in case there are references. personally, I set up a shop PC so if for some reason I was lazy and did a quick print without looking I could reference the PC. Is a hard copy good to have? Sure, but I have bought manuals for every car I have owned, including the Lotus, and shortly thereafter the manual on CD. My shop manuals now collect dust.
Not to mention that it is real handy to have the manuals on CD when you are traveling. I have my Harley manuals in PDF on a hard drive. I have a little windows CE based pen computer that I bought to read the PDF's with. Put the PDF's on a PCMCIA hard drive. Getting a PDF reader for the WinCE was a challenge, but it works. Then I bought a better pen computer (Pentium 166, runs 98SE) with an internal hard drive that isn't much bigger, so I put the manuals on it. And MS Streets.
I like to print out the pages I'm working on too. That way you don't get your manual all gunked up. I hate that. I have a shop computer as well WiFi'ed in to the rest of my network.
Dr.Hess
I like to print out the pages I'm working on too. That way you don't get your manual all gunked up. I hate that. I have a shop computer as well WiFi'ed in to the rest of my network.
Dr.Hess
Definitely try to get your hands on the PARTS manual or PDF file.Sometimes while I'm looking over the service notes, I think I'm reading a Chilton's manual, it can be a bit vague. Also the word I would sometimes use while working on these cars would be claustrophic.
Having a good assortment of small(re: tight spaces)tools is a must. It took me about 6 hours to do a timing belt(belts and hoses)but it really could be a 2-3 hour job. I had to chase down some tools that I didn't have, or that would have made the job quicker(ie: metric crow foot wrenches,5 degree ratcheting box wrenches). But after working on my 91 SE I do get a appreciation for what ACBC has wrought. There truly was genius at work there.
Having a good assortment of small(re: tight spaces)tools is a must. It took me about 6 hours to do a timing belt(belts and hoses)but it really could be a 2-3 hour job. I had to chase down some tools that I didn't have, or that would have made the job quicker(ie: metric crow foot wrenches,5 degree ratcheting box wrenches). But after working on my 91 SE I do get a appreciation for what ACBC has wrought. There truly was genius at work there.
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