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31-05-2016, 10:49
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Haynes wokrshop manual
I came across this useful bit of technical jargon translation on my other forum and thought it may come in handy!
 Haynes: Rotate anticlockwise. Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer anticlockwise. Haynes: This is a snug fit. Translation: You will skin your knuckles! Haynes: This is a tight fit. Translation: Not a hope in hell matey! Haynes: As described in Chapter 7... Translation: That'll teach you not to read through before you start, now you are looking at scary photos of the inside of a gearbox. Haynes: Pry... Translation: Hammer a screwdriver into... Haynes: Undo... Translation: Go buy a tin of WD40 (catering size). Haynes: Retain tiny spring... Translation: "Ping... what the hell was that? Haynes: Press and rotate to remove bulb... Translation: OK - that's the glass bit off, now fetch some good pliers to dig out the bayonet part. Haynes: Lightly... Translation: Start off lightly and build up till the veins on your forehead are throbbing then re-check the manual because what you are doing now cannot be considered "lightly". Haynes: Weekly checks... Translation: If it isn't broken don't fix it! Haynes: Routine maintenance... Translation: If it isn't broken... it's about to be! Haynes: One spanner rating. Translation: Your Mum could do this... so how did you manage to bugger it up? Haynes: Two spanner rating. Translation: Now you may think that you can do this because two is a low, teeny,weeny number... but you also thought that the wiring diagram was a map of the Tokyo underground (in fact that would have been more use to you). Haynes: Three spanner rating. Translation: Make sure you won't need your car for a couple of days and that your AA cover includes Home Start. Haynes: Four spanner rating. Translation: You are seriously considering this aren't you? Haynes: Five spanner rating. Translation: OK - But don't ever carry your loved ones in it again and don't mention it to your insurance company!! Haynes: If not, you can fabricate your own special tool like this... Translation: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Haynes: Compress... Translation: Squeeze with all your might, jump up and down on, swear at, throw at the garage wall, then search for it in the dark corner of the garage. Haynes: Inspect... Translation: Squint at really hard and pretend you know what you are looking at, then declare in a loud knowing voice to your wife "Yep, as I thought, it's going to need a new one"! Haynes: Carefully... Translation: You are about to cut yourself! Haynes: Retaining nut... Translation: Yes, that's it, that big spherical blob of rust. Haynes: Get an assistant... Translation: Prepare to humiliate yourself in front of someone you know. Haynes: Turning the engine will be easier with the spark pugs removed. Translation: However, starting the engine afterwards will be much harder. Once that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach has subsided, you can start to feel deeply ashamed as you gingerly refit the spark plugs. Haynes: Refitting is the reverse sequence to removal. Translation: But you swear in different places. Haynes: Prise away plastic locating pegs... Translation: Snap off... Haynes: Using a suitable drift... Translation: The biggest nail in your tool box isn't a suitable drift! Haynes: Everyday toolkit Translation: RAC Card & Mobile Phone Haynes: Apply moderate heat... Translation: Placing your mouth near it and huffing isn't moderate heat. Haynes: Draw pivot out Translation: Soak all bits where pivot passes through frame with penetrating fluid and repeatedly smack pivot with rubber mallet until tired of feeling utterly hopeless, repeat process tomorrow. Hope this Helps: 
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31-05-2016, 11:58
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oh how true.
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31-05-2016, 12:56
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Wow that hit home... it did forget to insert all the places where you have to use some pretty choice words though.
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31-05-2016, 13:41
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Haha well done spotting that
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31-05-2016, 14:55
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Lol. I hate Haynes manuals but I have loads! ?
 
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31-05-2016, 15:52
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Very good, and many a true word lol...
It reminds me of one of our members, in his early days lol. 
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31-05-2016, 15:59
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All true, especially for a bloody terrano
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31-05-2016, 16:26
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You could add...
Haynes: Slacken and remove the oil filter. Translation: grab your old and well proven oil filter wrench, curse and curse as it doesn't get into the confined space and eventually stick a screw driver through it, only to find the new filter doesn't fit and your car is now off the road.lol
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31-05-2016, 17:11
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31-05-2016, 17:21
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I did once meet John Haynes himself. A very pleasant fellow, in most of the early manuals it is actually his hands in the photographs as he used to do the spannering in the early days.
He built up quite a car collection and in the 80's with a recession looming he signed all bar two (RR Corniche convertible and a Ferrari) over to a charitable trust to start the Haynes Sparkford Motor Museum. I went there 25ish years ago to do a project for college on the DeLorean DMC12, and they let me climb all over it and take loads of photos, on it, in it, under it! (Got 96% for the project). They invited me back on one of their bank holiday weekends and they took me out for a spin round their test track in the DeLorean! Back then, everything they had was run at least every six months. Including the F1 cars. Their curator was ex-RAF and an absolute car nut! He took a original AC Cobra round the track, span the wheels up in every gear down the straight. Managed to burn the brand new clutch out in 3 laps! Said they were struggling to get a clutch that could handle the power! From what I saw recently it has grown somewhat, it's down near Yeovil if you're ever down there. Just to wet your appetite, they had the only Rover SD1 Estate! and one of only two Jaguar XJS estates. 
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31-05-2016, 18:38
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I don't like Haynes. The Chiltern manuals were so much better. Then Haynes purchased Chiltern
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31-05-2016, 22:12
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The scary photos one and the 5 spanner rating had me in tears
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