timrocket72

looking for a source or upload of the factory scissor top adjustment maintenance manual

MDchanic

It's a chapter in the '71 to '76 Fisher Body Manual, pages 8-48 to 8-80.

As it stands now, there is no copy of that manual posted yet on WildAboutCars.

There are people on eBay selling these pages for $30, but I bought my '73 FBM on eBay for $8 shipped, if I recall. It's good to have.

I've been thinking of scanning those 32 pages, but wouldn't be able to do that right away - if you need it quickly, let me know, otherwise the best bet is probably to buy the cheapest '71 to '76 FBM you can find.

- Eric

timrocket72

it would be great if you could upload those pages to here when you got time. it would be a valuable resource to everyone with a scissor top

jaunty75

There's also this for $18 with free shipping.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-75-Olds...645dce&vxp=mtr


Probably well worth it to anyone who owns one of these cars and doesn't have the Fisher Body Manual.

MDchanic

Okay, I've done my good deed for the day. Now where's my merit badge?

E-mail me and I will e-mail you back a copy of the 1973 Fisher Body Manual chapter on B- and E-body convertible tops. It's almost 18mb, so if your mail blocks moderately large attachments, you're SOL.
(Please don't PM - my PM box is perilously close to full).

- Eric

jaunty75

Don't give up so easily. There are about a bazillion services out there for sending large files over the internet. One I've used frequently with good success is Adrive. You upload to that site, give them his email address, and they send a link to him to download it. No need to use email attachments.

http://www.adrive.com/

At even their lowest, free level of service, you can send files up to 2 GB in size.

MDchanic

That's fine, too, but simpler and easier to just send it directly.

- Eric

jaunty75

Of course it is, but that's not the point. It seemed that it was either email attachment or nothing at all as far as you were concerned, or am I misunderstanding what "SOL" means. My point was that, if the email attachment idea doesn't work, here's another option rather than just giving up. If you were already aware of it, I apologize, but from your previous posts, it did not seem that you were.

jaunty75

Gmail allows attachments up to 25 MB in size.

MDchanic

I use Yahoo, which has a 25mb attachment limit (I would have reduced the file size if it had come out much above 20mb, but I like to keep the resolution clean), and which has an optional service with a 100mb limit.
If that didn't work, I could upload it to the Mac cloud server, or (much easier usually) send it via ftp.
I could also use one of those commercial hosting services, but I'd really just not want to get involved in any more services, registrations, passwords, TOS agreements, etc. if I can avoid it.

Bottom line is that after scanning, cropping, collating, and reassembling 32 pages, I'm really not in the mood to go too much farther out of my way. Any e-mail service that won't allow a 25mb attachment is living in the dark ages, and anyone using it might as well be on AOL.

I'll send this file to anyone who asks for it, and, as it is not my data in the first place, they are welcome to repost it in any way that seems appropriate. If GM were still distributing this information, I wouldn't do this, but they aren't, and WAC doesn't have it up yet, so I will.

- Eric

timrocket72

thanks md

MDchanic

Manual sent, Tim. Let me know if you can read it okay.

- Eric