Question
My 1965 Dodge Dart
Ok. I'm the proud owner of a 1965 Dodge Dart 270 with a slant 6. I have a 360 in the garage, Motor-home transmission, and a great rear-end to put in some day. For now I just want the slant 6 for gas millage and to just drive around. Besides the car already goes over 120 Mph the way it is. I am however upset with not having overdrive.
My main question is where I can download a repair manual for my car. I'm looking for a free PDF or something. My Dad doesn't think I can maintain this thing or repair it and I really want to. I'm sure it will break down from time to time and need some adjustments. I own a computer shop and I fix computers. I scored a 99 on mechanical comprehension in school so I know I do have some mechanical talent contrary to my Father's line of thinking. Basically he started yelling at me when I was very little and didn't understand why I didn't want to learn from him while he was yelling at me. That should give you some idea. I'm good at teaching myself stuff from reading and doing. I have to be to repair computers. I fix anything people bring me. I even fix digital cameras, laptops, or any other piece of junk people bring in.
I've got lots of tools. Probably not all the ones I need but a good base set. I've got at least 4 sets of screwdrivers alone all mixed together :D. One Philips screwdriver of the same size is never enough :D. I got sockets, wrenches, etc.
One thing I'm very bad on is terminology. I hate terminology. I don't teach a lot of terminology either when I'm asked to teach. I usually use plain English because that's what I understand the best.
I already did a Google search for the manual and came up with nothing free to download.
AnswerVehicles before 1982 are not provided for online in the manner you want. "books4cars.com" can provide you
a print manual for a very reasonable price. Besides, factory manuals are great primers for the would be
mechanic as they give lots of background information. I personally work on vehicles from the 1920's to the
currant era and can only find pdf cdroms for more currant vehicles and they are not free.
The information you will find online must be filtered for accuracy. Start with the factory manual and
you will be ahead of 98% of the diyer's.
However, carparts wholesale.com has help articles for newer cars (82+) and these are free.
Alldata.com has reasonably priced annual subscriptions for individual models from 82 up in their
diy section.
