Need a manual for your 1941 ‘Stude Champion? Bishko’s got it. (Image/Bishko)
As much as we hate to admit it, working on a project is always easier when you have the instructions.
But, if you’ve got a vintage vehicle, it’s often difficult to find a decades-old original factory service manual that isn’t torn to shreds, covered in greasy thumbprints, or blotched with antique mayonnaise.
Thankfully, the bookworms over at Bishko have painstakingly copied and reprinted thousands of pages of original automotive factory literature—stuff like shop guides, rebuild sheets, owners manuals, sales brochures, and parts lists.
Bishko has manuals for several pre-WWI vehicles and its catalog stretches well into the 21st century. The library includes most major domestic manufacturers over the past century, including General Motors/Fisher Body, Mopar, Ford, AMC, Jeep, Hudson, Studebaker, Kaiser, and Nash.
How comprehensive is Bishko’s 7,000-volume bibliotheca? You can get a reprint of a Ford Model T owners manual for cryin’ out loud.
These resources are chock-full of valuable information like chassis lubrication points, fluid capacities, engineering tolerances, diagnostic procedures—basically anything the dealership and factory techs used back-in-the-day to service, troubleshoot, and repair what rolled into their shop.
Bishko has manuals available on DVD-ROM that you can digitally peruse on your computer, and books in analog form: real ink printed on real paper.
My 2000 Honda odyssey has shifting problems from first to second. Do you have a manual that covers shifting solenoids and their location? I see several on ebay ,but I don’t know which one to order.
Clyde King
611 Queens Creek Rd
Williamsburg, Va.
Thanks those manuals are very important for me.
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