VX Shop Manual, the hold-in-your-hand kind...

[Scott Larson]

I'm old school, maybe too old school, but I like a service manual I can hold in my greasy hands. I have the CD-ROM manual, I find it lifeless, boring, almost unreadable. Besides, who wants to give their prized disputer an 80w-90 lube-job in the midst of a teardown? That said, who actually has and uses the good-old, as-God-intended, paper service manual? I just ordered a Helm VX shop manual, $139.00 with the shipping. Am I nutz, or are there others as backwards as me? (Loaded question, I know!!)

[blacksambo]

I'm old school, maybe too old school, but I like a service manual I can hold in my greasy hands. I have the CD-ROM manual, I find it lifeless, boring, almost unreadable. Besides, who wants to give their prized disputer an 80w-90 lube-job in the midst of a teardown? That said, who actually has and uses the good-old, as-God-intended, paper service manual? I just ordered a Helm VX shop manual, $139.00 with the shipping. Am I nutz, or are there others as backwards as me? (Loaded question, I know!!)

I've got the old bible version as well....good midnite reading.

[Triathlete]

printer!

[Scott Larson]

printer!

OMG!! How many reams of paper is that, how many days to copy? Oh dear Lord!! (1000+ pages...)

I'm bettin' the ink alone would be "One Meeelion Dollars"...Mwa-ha-ha...

[Scott Larson]

I've got the old bible version as well....good midnite reading.

Awesome reading "on the throne"...

[VxSport]

I need the paper book in front of me to bleed on. I printed our own 800 page manual off of the cdrom disk. I even bound each section in their own wire & cardboard (office depot) binders.
To make it more difficult, its even double sided. Didn't like having the laptop in the engine comparment.

[Scott Larson]

I'm witcha on dat point, dat's my point!!

[johnnyapollo]

I use my 3 volumes plus the single volume parts manual. To be complete you'll also want the Electrical Troubleshooting Manual for your model year (there's a 1999 and separate 2000 versions).

Of course the reason I use them is because the CD no longer works on my system for some reason.

-- John

[eternal21]

I just ordered a Helm VX shop manual, $139.00 with the shipping. Am I nutz, or are there others as backwards as me? (Loaded question, I know!!)

OMG!! How many reams of paper is that, how many days to copy? Oh dear Lord!! (1000+ pages...)

I'm bettin' the ink alone would be "One Meeelion Dollars"...Mwa-ha-ha...

I'd have to say:
1) It's probably the same amount of pages as the stock manual,
2) printing it via printer is probably cheaper than the $139 you just paid for the hard copy....just sayin' . And when you bleed on the page/get it dirty, you can just print another and replace it
3) This is the kind of print job you run @ work when everyone has gone home for the day

[tom4bren]

I'd have to say:
1) It's probably the same amount of pages as the stock manual,
2) printing it via printer is probably cheaper than the $139 you just paid for the hard copy....just sayin' . And when you bleed on the page/get it dirty, you can just print another and replace it
3) This is the kind of print job you run @ work when everyone has gone home for the day

Amen!

I just print the apropo pages for any given job ... then toss the greasy/bled on paper in the trash when done.

Electrons are our friends! (maybe because they are related to PROTONs!!!)

[Scott Larson]

The nice thing about having the paper manual is that you can have it with you when you need it the most, away from home...

[JAMAS]

The nice thing about having the paper manual is that you can have it with you when you need it the most, away from home...

I have it on my iPad

[VX KAT]

My first Wells Moab trail guide book had the hard spine, pain to keep it open...so I took it to a print shop and for like $6 they sprial bound it...I'd think they could do the same for a 1000 loose pages maybe??

[Scott Larson]

Oh heck, I don't even own a cell phone! I've only had a disputer for 4 years... I think I'm what is referred to as a luddite.

[Ldub]

Oh heck, I don't even own a cell phone! I've only had a disputer for 4 years... I think I'm what is referred to as a luddite.

Must be another one of them "ota" things...

I think we may be the only two grown up (sort of) males on the N American continent that have no use for cell phones.