I went manual shopping today, at a place called books4cars.com in Seattle, and bought an '82 factory workshop manual and a '91 wiring diagram for my project. While I was there, I saw a pristine '85 factory workshop manual that looked like it had just come out of the plastic. I thought about getting it, as my parts -SE is an '85, but I figured that was a poor excuse to spend the $79.95 they were asking for it.

Anyhoo, I thought I'd let the board know about it. It's not a crappy MazdaTrix reprint--the pictures were perfectly legible. BTW, I got the feeling that the prices were negotiable. The prices I paid were about 2/3rds what books4cars.com had listed on abebooks.com.

 

Hmmm...you know you can get a pdf of the '85 manual for free? I know it's nice to have the printed manual, but $80 is a bit much.

 

Yes...thanks. I printed a copy of the '80 manual that I use.

Yes...$80 is a bit much. That's why I indicated the price might be flexible, if one were to be enterprising and email the seller. However, $80 for a pristine Toyo Kogyo manual versus $80 for a shitty MazdaTrix reprint is something to consider.

 

Yea, that's true. From what I've seen of the Mazda manuals, I wouldn't pay $80 for them (unless there was no other choice), but if you're considering a reprint for about the same price you could pay for a new one, might as well go for the new one.

 

Where can I find the PDF of the 85 manual?

 

http://www.wankel.net/%7Ekrwright/ca...85_manual.html

 

That site has actually been down lately, I can only get about half of the links to work. Anyone have a mirror?

 

I have the 85 shop manual and parts catalog in pdf files. Send me a mailing address and I'll burn a CD.

Bob Stuart

 

I can probably put up the files. I am not sure how much space the university gives me, but I will give it a shot.

Kent

 

Here are the manuals. It appears that it will be okay since the university gives 200MB of storage and all of the manuals are 152 MB. It is on a fast connection, so they shouldn't take long to download as long as you have a high speed connection on your end.

http://oregonstate.edu/~abelk/Manuals/

Kent

 

Does anyone have Chapters 7A and 7B (Manual and Auto Trannies)?

 

If you want to PM me with your e-mail address, I can send them to you. 19MB total size, so I hope you have brioadband.

Rich

 

I also have them. I'll put them up on the link that I posted earlier.

Kent

Edit: They are now up.