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MG MGF Technical - A good book?

Can anyone recommend any books that cover the basics and more in motor mechanics. Although I'm pretty handy with a spanner I'm mostly self taught as I've never worked on cars for a living.

I used to have a cracking book called "Race Car Engineering" but that was very technical and a bit American biased.

One of those "Dummies Guides to....." would be handy

And obviously its not supposed to be F specific.
Bob Millar

I've got "Fundamentals of Motor Vehicle Technology" by V.A.W. Hillier ISBN 0-7487-0531-7, and its companion "Fundamentals of Automotive Electronics" - also by V.A.W. Hillier ISBN 0-7487-2695-0 and found them useful when dealing with the F.

You can sometimes get the first in your local bookshop, I had to order the 2nd (I think from Amazon)

They explain how things work, rather than how you would dissassemble something (as per Haynes)
Steve

> They explain how things work

Thats exactly what I'm after. I know how to do it but dont know why etc.
Bob Millar

The MGF manual has a section on all the sensors and what they do, also you could try
http://www.howstuffworks.com

for more pretty pics and animations

and a search for "Dave Andrews emerald ECU MEMS Rover" tends to pull up the Emerald info, telling you how Fuel injection ECU's work.

http://www.chris-longhurst.com/carbibles/engineoil_bible.html

is about oil, but there is a suspension bible as well
Will Munns

Bob

I am a big fan of the "... for Dummies books" and often buy new versions of the IT related ones even though I've worked in IT (formerly Electronic Data processing) since 1973.

When I recently wanted to understand Lambda Sensors I looked it up on http://www.howstuffworks.com/ and got mucho info.

Give it a try sometime and let me/us know what you think.
JohnP

> http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Thanks for the link to this one guys. This is a great site and not just for cars (although dont think my boss would agree after all the time I've spent on it instead of working!)
Bob Millar

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