Toyota Truck Reviews

Chilton has done a fantastic job with repair manuals , This manual I bought is for my 1979 Corona, This manual has plenty of pictures of the engine and great illistrations for vacume and electrical lines AND WHAT PART GOES WERE AND HOW TO REMOVE AND INSTALL !!, This manual elimates all guess work and is very detailed and this manual gets to the point,

If you have a corona and it runs ?, Get this manual

This book relly helped me repair my corona which is constantly breaking down. It's shocks are also in need of repairs because of midnight rondevous.

This is a great reference for repairing or "fixing" any part of a Toyota Truck between the years of 1970 to 1986. My father gave me his Toyota 4Runner and it was in great shape. I had a liver transplant and was given a wish from "The Make a Wish Foundation". I decided to "beef" up my truck so that I would be able to drive down main street and have one of the hottest vehicles for a high school student. Make a Wish, put in a new interior, a automatic transmission (from a manual), cleaned the engine, and gave my truck a terrific paint job. When I received the truck from them, it started to have problems. I turned to my Chilton Toyota truck manual, and in less than two weeks, I had "weeded out the bugs". My friends oohed and aaahhed at my glorious vehicle.

From the chilton manual, I found troubleshooting tips, great black-and-white pictures( so you know exactly what part your looking at, and helpful safety precautions. This book also has a sixteen full color page section to help you with tuning and repairing. At the beginning, it gives you the places of where to find your vin numbers and before you begin, a checklist for the tools needed. This book probably saved my fame from becoming a total mess. Everyone including I, loved that truck. And I owe it all the "Chilton's Repair and Tune-Up Guide for Toyota Trucks 1970-1986".

Everyone should get the repair manual for their car from Haynes or Chilton. These are great books that provide very detailed information for you to make most repairs.

I firmly believe it's a good idea to use this as a reference to at least learn to do basic maintenance. This book will end up saving you a lot of money and it will ensure that your car lasts for a long time. For the more experienced do-it-yourselfer, you already know what a great book this is for auto repair, so there's no need to convince you.

If not to do your own repair work, consider this to help you understand your car and better communicate with your mechanic.

What kind of problem is when the oil ligth is on

Chiltons and Haynes are both decent books for repairs, but the primary thing that impressed me about Haynes books over Chiltons is the great wiring diagrams and better pictures.

This is a very good book for beginners just learning how to maintain their trucks. Some criticize it as too wordy, which is true, but it does provide insight as to why you're doing the maintenance and what to expect when things go wrong. It's a good complement to the factory repair manuals. It's good for other rigs, too.

Larry Owens has written a readable and useful primer on Toyota truck auto maintenance, very much in the spirit of Muir's "Compleat Idiot's" guide to VW Bug maintenance. Unfortunately it also has the same flaws: no wiring diagrams, and the Procedure:Step format can be confusing, especially when trying to cover many different vehicles and years. However, the drawings (by Joe Leahy) are priceless and the many little tips and hints Owens provides make this book well worth the money.

This book was highly recommended to me by the head of the repair dept. at my local Toyota dealership as THE book to have as permanent reference for my 1975 20R engine.

This book is an excellent source of imformation for the repair and maintence of older Celicas and Supras. The only drawback is that it covers such a wide range of years and models that it can be difficult to locate information pertaining to a specific year/model. This book is useful for amateur mechanics or anyone who just wants to save some money on car repairs.

i would very much like to have more to give a more objective analays

This book was great it tels you about everything you need to know about Toyota and Lexus cars

This book covers too many model years to be effective. I have a 1975 Corolla with vacuum problems. The cover says it has complete vacuum diagrams, so I shelled out the 20 bones. I got it home and ripped the plastic off only to find vacuum diagrams omitted for the years 70-83. The wiring diagrams leave out key systems, like the seat belt circuit, which do not come out of the spool unless all five wires are properly connected! Most diagrams are geared toward late model cars, and every diagram is filled with acronyms and abbreviations which are defined NOWHERE in the book! I consider myself pretty adept at understanding and fixing cars, but does anyone know what these are?!: AAP, TVSV, VCV, ASV, HAI, EBCV, HIC, VTV, etc. I am really not trying to trash this book, but that is where mine is going...

Oh, but there is a really good section on how to change the wiper blades! And here's one I'm sure everyone will use: wheel alignment; as if the home mechanic is ever going to do that.

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i've got a 1985 toyota corolla 1296 cc 5 door can you help me with the thoery manual books best for this car

to anyone intrested, you can buy official, complete maintanance and repair manuals directly from toyota for any model or year.
call the toyota material distribution center at 1-800-622-2033 or you can buy them at any toyota dealership.
on another note, i would like to state that the 1987 corolla hatchback in manual transmition is one of the best cars ever made. mine (befour i owned it) has been driven hard, rusted out, abused, and left in the woods for 2 years it still runs great.