In today's troubled economy, more and more people are getting back to the basics and doing their own vehicle repairs, much like our fathers and grandfathers did in years past. Unfortunately, today's vehicles are much more complicated than the vehicles our parents and grandparents maintained. My grandfather always said he could fix anything on his car with a pair of pliers and a piece of wire. That may have been an oversimplification, but I think we can all agree that it is not always easy to repair a vehicle problem without following specific repair procedures developed for the specific problem and the specific vehicle model.  

Our research revealed that hundreds of creative fix-it-yourself individuals like you are searching the Internet each day for instrument cluster removal procedures and various other vehicle repair procedures. So the question we asked was "Why  not just use existing repair manuals instead of searching for procedures? We observed, as you  probably observed too, most auto repair manuals try to cover every possible repair you might ever need for your vehicle. Unfortunately, trying to cover everything in just one manual means the procedures have to be as condensed and as brief as possible for keep the size of the manual down to a reasonable size. Therefore, the writers and publishers can only hit the high points for each procedure. In order to fit so many procedures in a single volume, they must leave out a lot of the details and simply assume that we all know the twelve or twenty sub-steps necessary to "remove Component A".  

Most repair manuals also make you to remove  things that do not need to be removed, resulting in a lot of extra  (and unnecessary) work. (More work means more opportunities to screw something up.)  For example, the most popular auto repair manuals on the market begin the heater core replacement procedure by telling you to discharge your air conditioner, remove your steering wheel & driver side air bag, remove your wiring harness and pull it through the firewall, and finally, remove the entire instrument panel (dashboard) from the vehicle.  That's a lot like saying to drive from Miami to Washington DC, you must drive through Denver and Chicago.  Of course the end result is the same, but I'd sure hate to use only road maps that didn't show me the most direct way to get from point A to point B.  By the same token, why should you go to a lot of extra work simply because your existing repair manual says to remove a lot of unnecessary parts? 

In our upcoming Fix It Yourself Ford Heater Core Replacement Manual, we will show you how to replace your leaking Ford heater core without unnecessarily removing your wiring harness, without removing your steering wheel, without removing your driver-side air bag, without removing your instrument panel from the vehicle and without discharging your air conditioner.  

We know that most people are looking for repair procedures that include a lot more details -- procedures with large full-color photographs and which have you to remove or disconnect only that which is absolutely necessary. Knowing this, we decided to help provide what you are searching for by developing a series of "Fix It Yourself" repair manuals. Each of our manuals covers only one specific repair. Each manual is devoted entirely to the one repair that is most important to you at the moment -- THE ONE repair that you are trying to do RIGHT NOW. That repair is covered in more detail and explanations than you will find anyplace else.  

After all, which is more important to you -- the repair procedure you are trying to do right now.....or the other 30 or 40 procedures in your repair manual that have nothing to do with your current problem and are therefore of no benefit to you for the particular problem you are trying to fix today? Of course, the most important is the one repair procedure that you need in order to fix the problem that you have today.

Our Fix It Yourself automotive repair series will provide uncommon information and little-known secrets that  will not be found in other repair manuals.



We have published three manuals in our "Fix It Yourself" series. More are on the way. We will update the following list as new volumes are published. If you would  like to be notified as the new manuals become available for your Ford vehicle, please click here.

"Fix It Yourself"  Manuals Currently Available

     1.  Ford Intermittent Odometer Repair Manual
     
     2.  Ford Instrument Cluster Removal Procedures

     3.  Ford Headlight Switch Removal Procedures