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Ok, I have been digging around some and found a few options. What repair manuals are generally thought of as better than others? I want to find one of my Excursion, and for a 97 Toyota 4 Runner.
Yep, Helm has always made the geuine Ford shop manuals. However, unless things have changed which I doubt, you have to buy quite a few for a given year and model Ford for complete coverage. For my '91 I had to get the engines (only) manual, the bigger Body, Chassis, Electrical manual (which covers trans, rear ends, starter, etc), and also the Electrical, Vacume and Troubleshooting Manual, which shows all the individual circuitry, electrical component locations, heater/AC, speed control vacume lines and components, and on and on. They all were over $100 total, but I bet late model ones are 3 times that nowdays.
Don't know what to tell you about your 4 runner. I bought a new 1/2 ton Tundra and found out the manuals are about $900---so much for that. Fortunately on one of the Tundra sites a few guys have made a lot of pertinent info from the manuals in to PDF files. Maybe you can find the same on a 4 runner site.
For the Helm SuperDuty manuals, the shop manual includes all the wrench twisting stuff, including the diesel engine and automagic tranny. But for the electronic diagnosis stuff you need a separate manual called the PC/ED (powertrain control/ electronic diagnosis). And the wiring diagrams are in a third manual.
The paper version of the shop manual for my '99 costs $170. The paper PC/ED manual is another $180. And the 1999 F250HDF350 Super Duty Electrical & Vacuum Troubleshooting Manual
Price: $75.00
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Yep, Helm has always made the geuine Ford shop manuals. However, unless things have changed which I doubt, you have to buy quite a few for a given year and model Ford for complete coverage. For my '91 I had to get the engines (only) manual, the bigger Body, Chassis, Electrical manual (which covers trans, rear ends, starter, etc), and also the Electrical, Vacume and Troubleshooting Manual, which shows all the individual circuitry, electrical component locations, heater/AC, speed control vacume lines and components, and on and on. They all were over $100 total, but I bet late model ones are 3 times that nowdays.
Don't know what to tell you about your 4 runner. I bought a new 1/2 ton Tundra and found out the manuals are about $900---so much for that. Fortunately on one of the Tundra sites a few guys have made a lot of pertinent info from the manuals in to PDF files. Maybe you can find the same on a 4 runner site.
When I worked for the fire department I got the new truck (3/4 ton Chevy Diesel) with a full set of service manuals, I recall they were well under $200, might have been under $100, did not know what I was getting...they took up about 4 feet of bookshelf space, well worth the price.
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