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Haynes or Clymer

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Blastr2783 said:
Haynes or Clymer
Which is recommended?
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Given the choice of only those two, I would choose Clymer. :o

However, as Nessism pointed out, manuals for many of our bikes are available at Mr. BassCliff's site.
Most are factory manuals, but some are of the 'lesser' manuals. :(

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Get all three, read all three. It's worth it.

The factory manual is the "bible" and the Clymer is better than the Haynes but I find all three useful.
 
allojohn said:
Get all three, read all three. It's worth it.

The factory manual is the "bible" and the Clymer is better than the Haynes but I find all three useful.
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Yeah, I forgot to mention that little tidbit. :oops:

I happen to have all three for my 850s. Each has its strong points, but the factory has the best information.
Clymer has better pictures, and is a smaller book, easier to carry out to the garage.

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I agree with the service manual recommendation as well as the Clymers. I use the service manual I downloaded from Basscliff but it's not searchable so it takes a bit. For some small things like torque values, I'll use the Clymers since I can find it faster (and some stuff isn't in the service manual).
 
I purchased a genuine Suzuki factory service manual from eBay for about $20. The scanned ones on BassCliff's site are O.K., but they tend to have lower resolution and sometimes the page numbers don't come out at all. I also picked up a factory service manual for the Kaw for about the same price. Ii have a Haynes or Clymer for the GS, but it never leaves the shelf.
 
that is a reproduced service manual. its essentially the same as the original one, but its been reproduced and its in "new" condition. plus the description says there is additions to the original manual. it may be worth it if you dont feel like scrolling through 300 pages of PDF on BikeCliff's sight.
 
All three....sometimes one will have a slight difference in presenting the material than suddenly makes the light go one for me.
 
allojohn said:
Get all three, read all three. It's worth it.

The factory manual is the "bible" and the Clymer is better than the Haynes but I find all three useful.
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I agree with this. The factory manual is best, but it is slanted a bit toward a trained professional technician, who has all the special tools a bit. Haynes and Clymer sometimes use alternate tools. In General, I like Haynes, but Clymer seems pretty good on the large "G's". I did find some torque specs quoted which match the GS850 manual but do not match the GS1100G manual in there. So I added them together and used that.

I like to study more than one source before starting a job. It seems to help. But I can screw it up even if I already know how to do it correctly.
 
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