Re: How difference between 500+ page Vinyl repair manual and vender's one

["David Teitelbaum <jtrealty@xxxx>" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

I have noticed in the couple of Workshop manuals I have seen that 
there is a large chunk missing from the Automatic Transmission 
section. I bet 95% of people have never noticed it mainly because 
their car is a 5-speed. Another big reason is that unless you are 
actually rebuilding the automatic transmission the missing information 
isn't important. I got my manual from P J Grady and until I pointed 
out to Rob about the missing pages he didn't even realize it. (They 
were able to provide the missing pages). Besides the "missing pages" 
there are numerous errors throughout the manual, some small and some 
large, I keep notes in mine and try to correct whenever I find one. At 
one point DMC Houston asked for corrections which I had sent. They 
said they were in the process of creating a "new, updated, and 
corrected manual. This is a tremendous effort and the time and expense 
is enormous. You can't realize it until you actually try to do such an 
effort. It is a major effort just to keep track of the corrections. 
All of these manuals evolved from the origional paperwork created by 
Delorean Motor Company for the Dealers. IMHO the the best manual is 
the origional manual without anyone's modifacations until a better 
corrected version can be created. For anyone really interested in this 
kind of materiel Bosch has excellent reference books on the fuel and 
engine managment systems, some of it Delorean specific. At this point 
in time I think Wayne Earnst can be considered our resident expert 
(along with James Espey of course) as he has investigated many 
versions and reprints of the available manuals. Last time I spoke to 
him he was trying to create an updated version but because of the 
immensity of the task I guess it is "on the back burner". In the 
meantime I guess we will muddle through with what we have now and the 
archives of the DML.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757 


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, deloreanernst@xxxx wrote:
> I said in a prior posting:
> "the likewise unavailable Technical Service Manual long out of print 
from 
> DMC."
> I should point out that there is a repro by e-Novel titled 
"Technical Service 
> Manual" but it is NOT the same as the Technical Service Manual 
issued by 
> DMC. I own both and DID do a page by page comparison.. twice... and 
found 
> that the e-Novel manual is about 93% identical to the standard repro 
Workshop 
> Manual with the remaining 7% or so being a repro of the Auto Trans 
section of 
> the original Technical Service Manual by DMC. As such, it IS 
different from 
> the Workshop Manual, but personally, I don't think Jack should have 
named it 
> identically to a different manual. Just confuses things, and also 
makes it 
> seem completely different from the Workshop Manual, which it isn't.
> 
> Wayne A. Ernst 
> vin 11174
> 
> 
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