The Unofficial "Ask a Stupid Question" Thread

[rampagingsloth]

Take a look at this web site if you get some time:

Free Service Manuals for Ford vehicles | Operation CHARM

Detailed repair/service/workshop manuals for many Ford vehicles, including electrical diagrams, recommended bolt torques, and estimated labor times.

charm.li

You can go to the Thunderbird (Cougar) for diagnostic info. You can download it as a file as well.

Stupid question, but how do you download them as files? I can't see any option for that, the best is right-clicking and saving the link.

 

[KevinVarnes]

I was able to drill down to a link to download a zip file.



There is a lot of easy to access information in here!

...but the zip file isn't overly helpful. You get a bunch of pages with links, to procedures, but none of the links work. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. For a 42MB download I would think it would all be collected together.

 

[rampagingsloth]

I was able to drill down to a link to download a zip file.

Jeez, am I retarded? I was looking right at those two links (in the V8 version) and didn't even read them, hahaahahaa.

There is a lot of easy to access information in here!

...but the zip file isn't overly helpful. You get a bunch of pages with links, to procedures, but none of the links work. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. For a 42MB download I would think it would all be collected together.

Well, I downloaded the ".zip with better file names" and, how about that, it worked! You have to read the README.txt file, it says to click on the index.html file and when I did that it opened a tab in my browser, looks exactly like the website's version. The links that I tried worked, pictures and all (man, that's a lot of sub-directories). You might have to try the other .zip file since Windows hates long file names.

 

[KevinVarnes]

Jeez, am I retarded? I was looking right at those two links (in the V8 version) and didn't even read them, hahaahahaa.



Well, I downloaded the ".zip with better file names" and, how about that, it worked! You have to read the README.txt file, it says to click on the index.html file and when I did that it opened a tab in my browser, looks exactly like the website's version. The links that I tried worked, pictures and all (man, that's a lot of sub-directories). You might have to try the other .zip file since Windows hates long file names.

Got it. Thanks for the infromation. I suppose it can be helpful to read the instructions from time to time although I normally find them a senseless nuisance. Got the factory manual for my '85 wagon downloaded even though I have all of the books. Nice to look things up quickly.