Festiva Book

[KJ4YXY]

Today was the last day of school for me :happy6::happy6::happy6::happy6::happy6::happy6:

But I got a summer reading assignment.

So I was wondering if any of yall would know a good book to read about the Festiva or mechanical stuff on a Festiva to help me grasp information about the Festiva and get a larger sense of mechanics.
Thanks

[KJ4YXY]

Important info that could be usefull:

[25Horseplay]

Read the service manual!

[navdoc101]

^X2, or the "Haynes Manuel" for your year Festy.

[KJ4YXY]

Read the service manual!

I dont feel that falls under the correct age level book category.

[georgeb]

Electrical, Vacuum and Troubleshooting manual.

[KJ4YXY]

I dont want a manual...
More of a simple book
As some of yall might know or not know I have a Bristol - and a book that I have related to that is all about the mopar engine.

[FestYboy]

try Corky Bell's "Maximum Boost"

[kellen302]

All of the Sticky's on the forum in their entirety?

[KJ4YXY]

All of the Sticky's on the forum in their entirety?

lol good one.

I dont think I can come to school with a few hundred pages from a Festiva forum... (ink would be expensive) ... I just dont feel that they would accept that as a book.

[KJ4YXY]

try Corky Bell's "Maximum Boost"

I see where you are going with that!

[Safety Guy]

There are all kinds of car repair, restoration and modification books available, as well as books on specific steps to repair and modification. These may qualify.

Jim had a book on balancing working with hands and mind. I just can't recall the name. He recommends it to all his tech students.

Here is one:

"Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other Post-Technological Adventures" by
John Jerome. This one looks so good to me that I may buy it. Here is the description:

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"Know thy gadgets; first step in restoring some kind of wholeness to one's life." So observes John Jerome about his purpose for rebuilding a 1950 Dodge pickup. Yes, he needs the truck to haul manure, but Jerome also hopes that "by knowing every nut, lockwasher, and cotter pin I could have a machine that had some meaning to me." Thus his year-long odyssey under the hood, among the brake shoes and valves, becomes more than a mechanic's memoir; it is a meditation on machines, metaphysics, and the moral universe.

Nearly two decades after publication in 1977, the essential dilemma of Truck still rings true: as Jerome dismantles the aged straight six, he also disassembles our reliance on "two-hundred-dollar appliances that sport flaws in thirty-five-cent parts" and decries the "deliberate encapsulation, impenetrability, of the overtechnologized things with which we furnish our lives." Despite gouged knuckles, a frigid New Hampshire winter, frustrating and inexplicable assemblies, and a close call when the truck rolls off its jacks, he perseveres. In the end, he admits, "I did not find God out there in the barn" among the cans of nuts and bolts." What he does find, however, is that he must make peace with technology; it's a mistake, he says, to "assume there is a point on that line between the caveman's club and the moon shot that marks the moral turnaround, before which technology was somehow benign, after which it is malign." While Jerome gains a truck that runs-sometimes-we gain new insight into a technology that continues to encroach upon our lives.

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With your working on Festivas and other cars, you should be able to add your own experiences to this report. I found this book on Amazon.com. but you can try other places or check it out from your library.

Karl

[FB71]

Shop Class As Soulcraft

[fastivaca]

Shop Class As Soulcraft

An excellent read

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[KJ4YXY]

Ill take a look into those 2 books above^