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Title: service manuals
Post by: bobwoo on November 03, 2015, 12:26:38 PM
How good are the mci manuals. Someone has a listing for 30 dollars on ebay. Any idea if they are worth buying?
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: Cary and Don on November 03, 2015, 01:46:10 PM
We have some MCI manuals and don't have an MCI. Not all manuals were written equally. We keep the MCI ones, because they give much better detailed instructions than either the GM or Eagle manuals. Service manuals are of the most use. Parts manuals can be of help also. If you don't have to have a hard copy, you can purchase all the manuals you would need for your bus on a cd for about $100. We do like our hard copy manuals also though. It seems we paid about $30 each for manuals on Ebay, but this was a few years ago.

Don and Cary
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: lostagain on November 03, 2015, 03:21:18 PM
The MCI manuals are the best available for an MCI bus. Very detailed. You can service and fix anything on your bus with them. Anything that has been kept stock. I cannot imagine owning a bus without the factory service and parts manuals.

JC
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: luvrbus on November 03, 2015, 03:25:09 PM
The dvd's on sale at the E place for 30 bucks are a joke I bought one for the D 30 bucks wasted IMO
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: 4104SoFl on November 03, 2015, 11:58:55 PM
I do not know nothing, but for me a book is better than a disk.
I can carry the book and look at it.
I would have to be more careful with a computer.
May be my age, I do not know.
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: kyle4501 on November 04, 2015, 07:37:36 AM
I like both.

When I'm studying, I use the hard copy manual.

When I'm working on it, I print pages I need from the CD ( keeps the manual clean ). I can also enlarge the scale of the print so I can see in better detail.
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: lvmci on November 05, 2015, 10:01:43 AM
Hi Don, do you have a parts manual for an 1989 102C3? tom, lvmci...
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: Cary and Don on November 05, 2015, 12:41:39 PM
Tom, yeh it is the 1989 102A2 and 102A3 parts manual.  That is one big book. We keep these manuals because some parts are interchangeable.

Don
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: bobwoo on November 05, 2015, 12:59:54 PM
Where can I get a good manual for my C3?
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: lvmci on November 05, 2015, 01:11:43 PM
Hi bob, I  got a service manual from eBay on DVD,  $40, for a C3,  no parts manual available that cheap, lvmci...
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: bobwoo on November 05, 2015, 01:15:39 PM
thanks luvrbus didn't think they were any good, will give it a try, lol its only 30 dollars thanks bob
Title: Re: service manuals
Post by: bobwoo on November 06, 2015, 08:31:25 AM
I bought the C3 service manual off ebay. Someone photocopied a mci manual and then scanned the photocopy. Everything is here but the photos are very bad. Otherwise everything is great and its helpful, FYI