I'm trying to get serious about my car repair and I was looking for some book/site recommendations

I have a 289 engine with a holley 600cfm 1850-3 carb (which seems a little bit big for the engine from what I've read)

I need to lean out the carb (holleybook/site?), have some body work needs to be done (quarters, I was reading the faq earlier)

I'm also looking for basic maintenance guides (maybe a chilton's or haynes?

Thanks for the input

 

http://www.amazon.com/COUGAR-FAIRLAN...6648803&sr=1-1

There is the mustang bible. Almost anything you could possibly want to know about your stang.

I would defiantly stay away from the haynes, they are just plain crap. And I have heard the chiltons was so-so.

 

as Nick says the shop manual is great. this is basically the book given to Ford garages on how to repair those yokes.

As for the carb, it is on the big side if it's a plain stock engine. If the engine has a few modifications (aftermarket intake, headers, exhaust, maybe ported heads or cam ...) the 600 should do ok. for jetting down you don't need a book, you need a screwdriver. I learned _PLENTY_ about carbs just from reading this forums. I play around with every carb I can get my fingers at and now I can even tell driving when the car is running lean and what the cause might be and i still don't know enough about them. Maybe someone can recommend a good holley book.

 

Well the previous owner did a number of mods to it and he can't remember all of them (it was built for his daughter who drove it once before saying she wanted a car with AC)

The biggest one that I know about is the rear differential because it drives me crazy! He replaced it with I think he called it a detroit locker or ratchet differential. All I know is it clicks really loud at parking lot speeds around corners. Anyone know anything bout these?

I'm sure the engine has had some mods but right now I am still learning the basics of working on a car (before I bought this car I was afraid to change my own oil, now I've changed most of the ignition system, header gaskets, plugs and wires.

Guess I'm searching for the wrong terms for the carb...I tried leaning out a holley and got a lot of info that wasnt all that useful mostly cause I don't understand it

 

what about the shop manual on CD? I've seen them for $20-$25 on the bay and seems like that would be a good option since they say you can print out any section you need on a printer so you have it out in the garage and not ruin a hard copy.

 

Dumb reason- you can put great AC in these cars for a heckova lot less that buying a car.

 

I've been using my hard copy for 30+ years, and haven't ruined it yet.

 

Her loss my gain (one of these days at least)

 

so anyone use the cd version? Seems like $25 for manual on CD is better than $65 unless someone knows of a cheap source for the hard copies of the shop manuals?

 

I just ordered the ten pound paper version myself. I already have a pdf for a 68 that i found online, but i'd rather have something that will travel to the shop with me, without having to constantly print out stuff and hope i printed out all the right pages, or just print the whole thing and run out of ink, or blow all of work's toner, etc.