Ebook: Datsun 1200. Owners Workshop Manual

Haynes Publications Inc., 1973. — 152 p. — ISBN: 0-85696-124-8 — (OCR).The aim of this book is to help you get the best value from your car. It can do so in two ways. First it can help you decide what work must be dpne, even should you choose to get it done by a garage, the routine maintenance and the diagnosis and course of action when random faults occur. But it is hoped that you will also use the second and fuller purpose by tackling the work yourself. This can give you the satisfaction of doing the job yourself. On the simpler jobs it may even be quicker than booking the car into a garage and going there twice, to leave and collect it. Perhaps most important, much money can be saved by avoiding the costs a garage must charge to cover their labour and overheads.
The book has drawings and descriptions to show the function of the various components so that their layout can be under­ stood. Then the tasks are described and photographed in a step by step sequence so that even a novice can cope with com­ plicated work. Such a person is the very one to buy a car needing repair yet be unable to afford garage costs.
The jobs are described assuming only normal spanners are available, and not special tools. But a reasonable outfit of tools will be a worthwhile investment. Many special workshop tools produced by the makers merely speed the work, and in these cases guidance is given as to how to do the job without them, the oft quoted example being the use of a large hose clip to compress Ihe piston rings for insertion in the cylinder. But on a very few occasions the special tool is essential to prevent damage to components, then their use is described. Though it might be possible to borrow the tool, such work may have to be entrusted to the official agent.