Excellent book to walk you through the basics of rebuilding a Jet drive. It will take you through disassembly and assembly step by step. I would recommend it to anyone that is rebuilding or considering rebuilding a Jet.

This book does not cover Blueprinting just the basic rebuild and it is a little weak on tolerance information for the Berkley jet drives. But well worth having anyway.

This book is an excellent overview of the major jet drives in use today. It is somewhat technical, but nothing covered in it could not be handled by a proficient do it yourself mechanic. The book also covers basic engine troubleshooting. An exccellent resource, it offers step by step instructions.

I have had one humdinger of a time trying to find information on my Chrysler '72. Here it is all rolled up in one great little guide. It doesn't go into complete tear down, but I didn't want that. This book saved my motor from the dump.

The book is broken down very nicely into sections. The topics are introduced clearly and briefly in understandable terms. Following the introductions are some examples that apply the concepts and/or equations. Each example has the step by step solution which is easy to follow and prepares the user for the practice exercises. There are sufficient practice problems with answers to the odd numbered problems. This allows the user to check his or her answer and correct any mistakes.

It's great and easy to understand. It's broken into many different lessons that are really easy to comprehend.

This is one of the older Magic School Bus books which has layers of detail in it. You can chose how many layers to read, depending on the child's interest and on the time you have available for reading.

The obvious layer is the text. There is plenty of information from just reading the text. If you want to add more, read the dialogue between the characters, written cartoon style in balloons. The most detail would come from the children's sketches and notes that are in the (very wide) margins.

I like the scheme of taking the children through the system and coming out the other end. Children usually find the fantasy of changing size to be fascinating as well. To my knowledge, the book is factual and fairly well up to date.

As a seamstress, I love Ms Frizzle's clothing and accessories.

I taught a unit on water to three second grade classes this year and this book helped the students understand where our city drinking water comes from, how it is treated for impurities and how it gets moved through the system and into our homes. The pictures and text are informative as well as humorous and entertaining. This book kept the students' attention and promoted discussiom. I highly reccommend it!

I ordered this book May 12th. When I followed up on June 6th, I was informed the order was automatically cancelled due to a shortage of books. It would have been nice to know this or at least be informed the order is on backlog. No communication.

Ironically, the web site still claims there are "only" 5 copies left (better hurry and order!) Seems I saw that message when I ordered the book 3 week ago

Bad online experience. I was really looking forward to this book.

Dave H.

I ordered the Seloc Manual for the 1.5 to 40 HP Johnsons thinking it would probably be a nice companion to the "other" manual I already had. I was wrong - - the other one is nothing compared with this one. It gave me the know-how and confidence to go ahead and do major repairs as well as tune-ups etc. that I couldn't have done without it. It's just like having a master outboard repairman looking over my shoulder and giving me little hints and suggestions along the way. Lots of excellent photos, too which are extremely helpful. Totally recommended! I would actually give it 15 stars!

This book is one the repair shop will hate and one the outboard owner will like. A very thourough repair manual. Good know-how

The manual offered by OMC is much much better, seloc's is a far cry from good, this rates along the clymer, chilton quality. For the same price, contact an OMC dealer and get the original so you can do the jog right. Given OMC Cobra's rep for gear eating problems, you should consult the OMC manual for correct cable adjustment procedures not found in the other manuals. This alone will save you $1000s of dollars.

This book is detailed and i recommend this book to the people who loves reading. I read this book 1 and a half years ago, but I liked it a little.

I'm afraid the authors, while seeming to desire catering to the novice, merely came across as condescending with their choice of phrasing. The book is not set up very intuitively, nor does it lend itself well to general troubleshooting. The troubleshooting offered is positioned in areas of focus that would be difficult to determine without considerable knowledge up front, as opposed to assisting in isolating a problem step-by-step. Further, instead of helping identify parts, etc., the authors seem to assume that you have a thorough overall knowledge of your particular motor, and offer no path to that information. In its defense, the book does go into great detail about disassembling and cleaning or rebuilding different devices and systems. But again, it doesn't help you determine problems, so who'd know what to disassemble? Sorry kids, but major thumbs down on this one.

This book helped in troubleshooting my problem but said absolutely nothing about how to fix it.

See previous review, he covered it all and I agree. I wish the Clymer book was still in print, I've had good results with them before.

The picture on the cover is very enticing. However, once you open the book you will wish you had never bought it. There are three reasons why I did not like this book: first, the directions of simple maintenance are very complex, second, the user friendly approach is not utilized, and last, the illustrations are poor. After reading this review, I hope I have changed your mind about purchasing this book.

Let us start with the complex instructions. This book covers not one type of engine but four and each engine has at least two variations. The book tries but fails to differentiate the various models. Most instructions seem to ramble on, then pause to tell you "oh by the way you should check this other chapter before you start this repair."

Next is the user unfriendly format. The book assumes the user is a ASE certified mechanic (don't really know how you become one). It will instruct you to remove the part or parts without telling you how it is accomplished. Or if you are a ASE certified mechanic, any hard task are simply labeled as "take to your local mercruiser dealer".

Last is the illustrations. Several of the illustrations are very dark or blurry. Seldom could you make out where a screw or part is that a text is referring to. Most of the pictures/diagrams seemed to have been copied from previous manuals. The illustrations are also hardly on the same page as the instructions. I found myself constantly looking back and forth through the pages to find the proper illustration.

I rated this a one star book because of the reasons above (plus a zero star was not listed). Do yourself a favor and look for another repair and maintenance manual.

This book gives the bare minimum of information. The information recieved will direct you to another page/section where that information is incomplete. After all how can someone tuneup an engine without nomenclature/adjustment settings? I was expecting a lot more. Example;See illistration #4........There is no illistration #4!