Ram Mark II manual

[Matthew Noonan]

Curious if anyone knows of any location that sells copies of the Ram instruction manuals?

I suppose I have been to spoiled with various sites offering reproduction prints or pdf versions for sale of many American manuals for reasonable costs, but for the life of me I can't find any such offering for the Ram.

Just original manuals up for sale at times in the past like on ebay and such. prices around the 250 to 400 range dollar range.

An example http://www.davidmasonbooks.com/oclis...st35-na018.php


Cheers

[Buster Reed]

Hi Matthew,

Do you happen to be the owner of a Ram tank by any chance, ifso send me a PM.

Kyle

[Matthew Noonan]

If only I had that kind of capital laying around. Then I might not mind paying 400 dollars for a manual.

Sadly I do not own a ram.

[Lauren Child]

Unfortunately you've hit on the problem. While US manuals are available quickly and easily, British and Commonwealth manuals aren't.

There are a few large collections of manuals around, and if you're looking for particular information then you can normally find someone to help.

With manuals like this being valuable, there's a very fine balancing act between releasing enough information to be helpful, and releasing copies more widely and thus devaluing the investment.

There's quite a good community though, and typically if you're working on a vehicle you'll find someone who'll run a copy off (or give up an original). They'll often run off a couple of extra copies so keep your ear to the ground.

Scanning takes quite a lot of time and effort though, and most collectors have got a backlog of scans on other manuals to run off for people.

I do know your pain though

It might help to explain why you want/need a copy.

[Matthew Noonan]

Would be nice to add to my collection in general.

Comparing figures the manual lists to things pulled out the Canadian microfilms or published books would be interesting as well.

I find no single source gives a clear picture, but the more sources you have the better idea you can get to what something actually was.

Take the R975 engine for example. most sources and even the maintenance manuals for it say one thing about the horsepower, while testing seems to show something different.

Edit: I see the manual sold already

[Lauren Child]

Yep, I tried to pick it up as well. I wonder who got this one (and the grizzly crew maintenance guide that was elsewhere on the booksellers site).