Merry Christmas! Documentation Is Ready

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, it is inconceivable to me that people toss those things.  But I will admit that the glove boxes on these things aren't very big, so perhaps it was done for space?

Anyway, it will be helpful, I'm sure.  But I wish I could easily make it display the pages in two-up mode, meaning side-by-side, just as you'd see it in the book.  I can do that via a setting in my pdf program, but it is only effective in that program and doesn't change what everyone sees via a browser.

So if anyone knows, please let me know.

[Gary Lewis]

Well, thanks again to Shaun as we have the 1980 Owner's Guide on the site now.  (Yes, they are accurately entitled: 1980 Owner's Guide vs 1986 Owner Guide.  Why isn't the later one possessive?  Looks like the change was 'twixt 1981, which is possessive, and 1985, which isn't.  )

Anyway, it is on the site and in the Literature list.

Tomorrow it may be 1981's, possessive, turn.  

Another note: The 1980 Owner's Guide is landscape, which works out very nicely for showing online, while the change to portrait was for 1981.  

[grumpin]

It’s really nice if you need to look at something and you don’t want to go out to your truck and look at the owners manual. Or go to the garage and look at the service manual.

Or traveling and don’t have a manual with you.

I have stuff on my computer so I can look at things while researching something. I don’t have everything so this is nice.

Thank you!

 

[Gary Lewis]

Dane - Glad it is helping.

Today's installment is the 286-page 1981 Owner's Guide.  (Documentation/Literature and use the spreadsheet or Documentation/Literature/1981 Literature and click on the pic of the owner's guide).

And the notes you see are my father's as this was his.  Unfortunately it was falling apart so, with David's help, I bought a new one some time ago and felt I could, therefore, take this one apart.

[grumpin]

Gary Lewis wrote

Today's installment is the 286-page 1981 Owner's Guide.  (Documentation/Literature and use the spreadsheet or Documentation/Literature/1981 Literature and click on the pic of the owner's guide).

And the notes you see are my father's as this was his.  Unfortunately it was falling apart so, with David's help, I bought a new one some time ago and felt I could, therefore, take this one apart.

Adds a nice touch I think!

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, I thought it was a nice touch.

Today we have something from Clifton - 1982 Special Performance Specifications.  This includes calibration info, shift speeds & line pressures for transmissions, etc.  Includes all 1982 Ford vehicles including heavy duty trucks.  It is at Documentation/Literature/1982 Literature, and is also listed on the Documentation/Literature spreadsheet.  Thanks, Clifton!

And, I added the Body Shell, Exterior Trim, Frame & Underbody section from the 1985 FSM to the site: Documentation/Body/Body Shell, Exterior Trim, Frame & Underbody.  This includes the instructions on installing the radiator support, which I needed today.

[Gary Lewis]

Well, I've been slacking off the last couple of days and haven't gotten a new doc on each day.  So today I've added two:

1983 Owner Guide: This is from Clifton, who kindly consented to letting me not only pull the stables but cut the pages down the middle.  Other wise it is a nightmare creating a document as there are 4 pages on each piece of paper.  So I have to duplicate them, crop each page to only get the proper one needed there, etc.  

1985 Owner Guide: This was one I got from Vernon with Big Blue, and it is in different format than the 1983 version.  In this one each page is glued to the spine so there wasn't any cutting.  But, each page has to be pulled out w/o ripping it.

Given my new scanner that does both sides of a page at about 1 page/second, this exercise should be relatively fast.  But these are 200+ page documents and the prep took far longer than scanning.  Then there are a few things to be done to the website as well as the spreadsheet on the Literature page.

In any event, as you can see from that spreadsheet we now only lack the 1982 and 1984 owner guides.  We are getting there!  And all of these guides are OCR'd so you can search them.  Just did on the '85 guide for "buzzer" and found 11 hits.  But only 8 in the '83 guide.  Might have to map out the differences some day.  

[Gary Lewis]

And, to continue to try to catch up to my one doc/day goal, I added these brochures courtesy of Shaun:

1980 4-Wheeler Brochure

1980 F-Series Pickup Brochure

Both are also show on the Literature page awa the 1980 page:

[salans7]

Yay!

Thank you for all the effort you put into getting the literature digitized for future reference.

[Gary Lewis]

Welcome, Shaun.  And thanks for the documents you've supplied.  I'm slowly getting all of them on.

[salans7]

Gary Lewis wrote

Welcome, Shaun.  And thanks for the documents you've supplied.  I'm slowly getting all of them on.

 I believe these were the last two of what I sent you? If so, you completed a huge chunk of what was missing from the literature section, I think the 1980 section was the least complete of all the years.

[Gary Lewis]

I think I have the 1980 Accessories catalog and the '95 and '96 F-Series brochures left.

Thinking of placing the later brochures in Other Publications.  Yes?

[Gary Lewis]

And, today I added the 1980 Accessories catalog.  

[salans7]

Gary Lewis wrote

I think I have the 1980 Accessories catalog and the '95 and '96 F-Series brochures left.

Thinking of placing the later brochures in Other Publications.  Yes?

That's right, I forgot about those.

I agree on the "Other Publications" Tab.

[Gary Lewis]

Gotta save something for tomorrow.  

[Gary Lewis]

Well, today was not the day for the later brochures.  It was the day for the 1985 cross-reference catalog.  The thing that lets you find the ID # that is on most parts and determine the part number.

But, it is 1060 pages long and took awhile to pull each of those pages out w/o ripping them, and then scan them.  I got that done, and I scanned into several files.  But the total file size is ~1.6Gb.  

I'm OCR'ing the files now, but that's a bit slow, running about 30 seconds per page.  You might ask why, and it might have to do with there being 630 part numbers and ID numbers on each page.  

Tomorrow I'll have to see how to organize things into manageable file sizes.

[85lebaront2]

Gee, that looks familiar. I have a 1990 and a 1996 if you want to at some point add them.

[Gary Lewis]

I can add them if you want to scan them - 300 dpi please.  Or, send them to me and I'll scan them.  But, if the '96 is an F-Series brochure Shaun sent me one of those.

[salans7]

I think he's referring to owner's guides as the post he is replying to is the one you made regarding the owner's manuals, hence the "That looks familiar" since I sent you an 86 manual and Bill's truck is an 86.

[Gary Lewis]

Ahhh!  That makes sense.

But owner's guides are problematic.  Ford did them two different ways - long sheets of paper stapled in the middle, and narrow sheets of paper glued on the edge.  I've given up scanning long sheets of paper since they have 4 different pages on them and it is a mess getting them sorted and cropped.  So, please don't send something that you don't want me to cut up in order to scan it.