Which manual would you recomend?

[Tom from Bancroft]

I'm gonna break down and buy a manual for the 9. Looking at the site here it shows a factory manual for 14.95, and a I&T manual for 24.95. So which one is the better buy for a shadetree mechanic type guy?

 

[Dunk]

<font face="Verdana" size="-1">[b:654c4848f0]9N[/b:654c4848f0] I&amp;T Aftermarket Shop Repair Manual
<font size="-2">152 Pages (Part No: FO-4)</font></font><font face="Verdana" size="-2">$24.95</font></p>


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[Dell (WA)]

Tom........unless you speak "factory", buy the 156pg I&T FO-4 manual. It has pictures for the mechanically challenged and has handy parts diagrams in back. ($25, cheap).......Dell

 

[Hobo,NC]

my god tom do you really think you need to throw down you hard earned money fer a repair manual, sheet i just paid $139.00 fer a factory repair manual fer a kubota, He!! I thought that wuz cheap after I wrote a check fer $1900.00 fer parts to'em. After all they git $16 a gal. fer hydraulic fluid and I only need 10.2 gal. I venture to say i have spent, wait a min. while I figger it up Da da da da----- da da da da---- da- da da a da da - da - da - da. 50K in repair info in the last 30 years, 40K of that izz a licence agreement when i quit pay'n they quit supply'n the info I am left wif nuttin no book to put on a shelf.. i could not do my job with out the info, Yer own personal copy of a I&t FO-4 repair manual sounds like a deal to me. I have one don't every body.

 

[Dunk]

Hobo, I have (car) Motor's Manuals, Service Edition, manuals from about 1960 to somewhere around 1980, it was a hard decision back then to pay $65 freekin bucks for a book, when you could buy a new Chevy car for $3,500.

 

[DennyF]

I wuz robbed! The I&T NAA manual (FO-19) I bought about 25-30 years ago, only has 49 pages. Still has the price sticker on 'er, paid $4 for it back then.

There's a note up in the corner of the cover, that says IMPORTANT: This manual obsoletes the similar shop manual, FO-2. If you have FO-2, destroy it.

Finally got around to firing the old dog up tonight for the first time this summer. 20 minutes tinkering and she's running like a Swiss watch...kinda.

 

[Anonymous-0]

No such thing as a best book on any subject.You need all you can find and afford.

 

[JohnNKy]

There is a site and I have seen them on eBay that sells every almost every manual for an "N" on a CD. You can print out the pages you need then toss when dirty. Best money you will ever spend.

 

[TheOldHokie]

Hey Hobo - how you like the organization of that Kubby manual? If it's like mine its got General, Separation, Mechanism, etc sections for each sub-system. Took me a while to figure it out - must be my steadily decreasing supply of gray cells....

TOH

 

[Hobo,NC]

Dell musta been in charge of the werd'n goes like this (when reassembling) install by hand, and then tighten the screws, "do not use the hummer". I find werd'n like this threw the manual.

 

[Ross Pugh(NC)]

Iagree wif the others and I ain't no mechanic, but the FO-4 has good instructions and pretty pictures that even I can understand. I lked my first short version with 102 pages so well that I bought another one of the 150 page version. Only difference is the 150 page version shows a breakdown of components at the end. Buy it, you will never regret it.