[Letsrodeo]

Solster:

I've got a set of the Helms 99 Rodeo Shop Manuals. It's a three volume set, four if you include the supplemental electrical schematics book.

Each volume is 3 to 4 inches thick. They manuals come with nice easy to use binders. These are not your typical 3 ring type, but a sturdy design that allows you to take pages out and re-insert easily.

The electrical book has pictures of the locations of most of the electrical parts which I've found to be helpful. It's a softbound book about a half inch thick.

The manuals are straight forward and the diction is at the right level. I spent sometime just learning how to read them and negotiate my way around in them. I've found the information listed in the manuals to be very comprehensive and easy to understand. There are some passages were they don't translate from Japanese (I assume the originals were in Japanese) to English quite right, but you get the meaning anyhow. I don't care for how it addresses one procedure and goes right into a new one with out a clear stop and start point.

At first I didn't care for them, but the more I use them the easier it is to find the information I looking for. Over all I'm satisfied. They've paid for them selves many times over by allowing me to do my own repairs vs. the dealer.

I thought about buying the CD set, but to print a hard copy would've cost a small fortune in ink and paper. Plus when I'm in the garage I like having the hard copy to thumb through.

If the CD set has a search feature (this I don't know) it might have swayed me towards buying them (in hindsight). I takes time to look through the table of contents to find your section of interest. The table of contents is over a hundred pages.

I've used Chilton’s before, and didn't care for them because they were not complete and the quality of the diagrams was poor. It seamed like every time I needed to see a diagram of how something was assembled, that particular diagram and the piece I need to view was unreadable.

Best regards.