1974 Shop Manual in PDF

This may not be the right forum.

I have finally finished copying my entire 74 Shop Manual into PDF...chapter by chapter. The glue in the manual was failing and pages were falling out so I did this to permanently archive it.

I would like to find a way to make this freely available to fellow Jeep owners, however, I don't have a hosting site or anything.

If you guys can recommend someone that is willing to host it, I'll be glad to forward the files. Here's the specs:

46 total PDF files
56.5MB total size
Largest file is 5.3MB
Smallest is 4K

It is copied cover to cover, each file being a chapter or part of a chapter. Please do not send me a bunch of emails/PM's asking for copies...I just can't start emailing it to everyone.

To the extent possible, I also want to try and prevent someone from capitalizing on these copies and seeing them show up on ebay for sale. That is not the intent.
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Resolved: You can find the PDF's here:
http://warloch.com/74%20Jeep%20Manual.htm
http://machotomato.wordpress.com/1974jeepservicemanual/
http://oljeep.com/edge_74_tsm.html

 

I take it that it would be hard for ECJ5 to host because of copy right?

 

Maybe. Although I find it really hard to believe that all those other places that have copies available for sale also have a release to do so...from...I guess it would be Fiat now.

 

:lurk:

 

Hope you can find a place to host it. It seems there is a huge number of 74's here in the Intermediate forum. I haven't seen the year by year build figures, but I'm wondering if 74 was a particularly large run or if it's just a coincidence.

If you do end up trying to send it to anyone it will be too large to email, but there are several websites that offer free file transfer. I've used "transfer large files dot com" and had good results. Still not the result you want, but a relatively easy way to transfer it to someone.

 

I contacted a fairly well known source (http://oljeep.com/edge_parts_man.html)for other Jeep manuals to see if he would be willing to take it. We'll see what happens.

 

I've used www.toobigforemail.com before. then you could just post the link in a sticky.

 

Looks like "toobig" has a 5 file limitation without membership, I'd have to consolidate all the files into one big PDF.

I do have a couple of really good leads/offers to host.

 

If you don't have the full version of Acrobat there's a nice little open source freeware application that lets you split and merge PDF's. It's called PDF Split and Merge (appropriately enough) and it's a quick little free download. http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=32

 

I know Wordpress has a 3gig limit for uploads. I have plenty of room on my Wordpress page and would love to give it a home there... even if it is temporary. PM inbound.

And they do allow PDF... I just checked.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions. I now have 3 offers to host it. Updates with further information will be coming sometime this weekend.

If those guys hosting it want to post up links once its done, please do. It'll save time that way.

 

Click-Save. Thanks for doing this.

 

:iagree: Awesome!! This is gonna come in REAL handy, thanks to everyone involved in making this possible!

 

This is good stuff, comes at a great time for myself and others aswell. Just started another 74' project. Thanks for all the time thats been put in to this.
Duke

 

Thank you .....great to have friends like you

 

Thanks alot for doing this!!!!! This will come in real handy since i will be starting a rebuild on my 74, right after elk camp.

 

Another mirror of the manual:
http://machotomato.wordpress.com/1974jeepservicemanual/

 

Nice...thanks a million nwedgar.

 

Great work! Thanks.