[DeTomaso] Service Manual

[Roland Jaeckel]

Italien car workers are genius. They don't need any manual to work on cars.
They never needed any manual to build a car :-))

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From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 2:55 AM
To: <tmshinro at aol.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Service Manual

>
> In a message dated 4/4/11 10 54 28, tmshinro at aol.com writes:
>
>
>>
>> After reading the thread on brake calipers and the difference between 
>> Ford
>> era and post Ford era cars, a question popped into my head.   Did 
>> Detomaso
>> provide a detailed service manual for his later cars like Ford did when
>> they were importing/servicing the cars at Lincoln dealers?   I know there 
>> was
>> a later parts manual (black with red GT5-S on the cover) but I've never
>> seen anything but the Ford service manual and the TSBs.
>>
>
> There were two Ford service manuals.   The common one is designed for
> consumer and technician use, while the less-common one is more detailed, 
> but only
> on a few procedures, and is designed specifically for the technicians that
> were sent to Ford HQ to go to school on Pantera servicing.   It's their
> textbook, if you will, called "Pantera Service Highlights".   Available 
> from the
> POCA store. :>)
>
> As for De Tomaso themselves?   They could never produce an accurate wiring
> diagram, much less a shop manual!   They did produce an updated version of
> the owner's manual for the GT5-S and later GT5; it is the same as the red
> cover manual of the L-model except it has added pages for the 
> Maserati-style
> A/C controls, and a GT5-S wiring diagram in the back.
>
> Mike
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