Hey!

I have an 86' Chelsea. I ended up finding one online that I printed out (all 265 pages). I haven't verified if it's accurate. 

Thanks for the offer

What year Mini do you have and did you find a Haynes Manual yet?  I have several of them covering all years.  Email me if I can help.

(not Jeremy Thorpe again...)

Haynes is a large publisher of manuals for a wide variety of things, including cars, small motor machines, computers, etc.

See Wikipedia info

"The Haynes manuals are named after John Haynes, OBE. In 1956, when he was at school, he wrote and published a book on building a 'special' based on the Austin 7, and wrote two further books while performing national service in the Royal Air Force. Haynes Publishing was founded in 1960 and the first manual actually entitled "Haynes Owners Workshop Manual", for the Austin-Healey Sprite, was published in 1965.

"Many Haynes Manuals bear a cover illustration of a cutaway view technical drawing of the vehicle, hand-drawn by Terry Davey, and they bear his signature.

"The automotive vehicle manuals are based upon taking apart and putting together a vehicle. The cover of each manual states: "based on a complete stripdown and rebuild". Each section has step-by-step instructions with diagrams and photographs of an actual stripdown or rebuild.

"Haynes manuals are written by a pair of authors, and take between 20 and 30 man-weeks. A car or motorcycle is bought at the beginning of the project and sold at the end. Although the workshop phase of the project usually lasts for roughly four weeks, the vehicle is usually retained for a couple of months to ensure it is functioning correctly.

"The Haynes Owner's Workshop Manuals (commonly known as simply Haynes Manuals) are a series of practical manuals from the Haynes Publishing Group (LSE: HYNS) aimed at both DIY enthusiasts and professional garage mechanics. The series primarily focuses upon the maintenance and repair of automotive vehicles, covering a wide range of makes and models (300 models of car and 130 models of motorcycle), but it also includes manuals in the same style for domestic appliances and personal computers, digital photography, model railways, men and babies, sex, and women. The last four were made slightly tongue in cheek, but have proved very popular.

"Additionally they have released manuals based on popular fictional series including Star Trek and Thomas and Friends."

Even Jeremy thorpe refers to Haynes Manual as the bible of the minis.  Who is Hayne? And why did he know every details about minis? And other cars too.

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the ultimate manual

It came in handy when I needed to figure out which wire is ingoing and which is outgoing.  

Msg to the community :

I made the mistake to help boison aka tb like most people did, before he developed his bipolar face in this community

By all means i dont circulate manuals at any profit.

Haynes manual maybe useful in some ways, i really dont know because the haynes manual that i got from someone is missing some important pages. i know he did it on purpose to make my life miserable. But if you get the real Haynes manual from Minimania i think its very useful because its complete and un-edited. But if you get it from Dimitri's house of manuals, then  you better think twice.

I believe you can never have too many manuals.  When I see a Mini manual on eBay that I don't already have I'll usually bid.  One of my favorites for the Mk1 is the AutoBook for the Mini by Kenneth Ball.

I find it disturbing when people bad-mouth Haynes manuals.  As stated above, there are some errors and over simplifications.  HOWEVER, if you have ever tried to use a Chiltons manual for a car made in the 1960s or 1970s you will have frequently seen with the phrase "This service is best left to a professional".  The Haynes manuals seldom resort to such dismissive statements and often suggest improvised tools to accomplish tasks.  I like the factory manual but Haynes costs less and is conveniently carried in the boot or a rear bin.

IMO Haynes (or other repair manual) is more than "useful" its essential. I defy any DIYer to rebuild a transmission without one, for example, or set the preload on the differential bearings and innumerable other repair projects that might come up.

I mess with these things everyday. Bought my first mini Labor Day weekend 1968. I began collecting everything I could find in print about minis. I started with the works of Clive Trickey and Triple C. I have signed copies of all of David Vizard's work. Factory workshop and parts manuals can be a big help. I even have clean copies I keep at home and shop copies at work. As for Haynes I have copies in several different colors covering all years. I find the general info and wireing diagrams helpful. I also buy old Mini and Mini World mags. Lot's of good info found there. Steve (CTR)

Well put, Dan.

Egg. Cap matches distributor, not engine ccs. Look for distributor type on the body of the distributor. It might take a little cleaning, a flashlight and a mirror. 

Love it. Thanks guys. 

Side note: a standard 998 that has points, uses what kind of distributer cap?

The Haynes manual(s) s useful and more importantly available. Bear in mind there are different versions depending on the age of the Mini you want to work on. As charrison says, there are a few errors, but not many. Sometimes it is jokingly referred to as the "Haynes Book of Lies", but I think that mostly refers to the phrase often used in it " assembly is the reverse of disassembly". Assembly is seldom the pure revers of disassembly, mostly because disassembly presents more problems (broken or seized parts, stripped threads, ....) than reassembly (which requires care and precision and usually a torque wrench). But is much more user-friendly than most official shop manuals.

Some will tell you or even offer a digital version, but go for the legit, printed one. Apart from not being pirated, it has a hard cover, making it more durable, is properly bound so it stays in order and doesn't lose pieces, and has thea dvantage you can write notes in it while you are working.

The most common recommendation here to a new Mini owner is "get a Haynes manual", which should tell you something.

Haynes has few errors, but its better than nothing if you've never worked on a mini before.

There are some well known tricks that Haynes doesn't describe - which is why this forum is here.

Hey guys and gals, 

How many of you use the Haynes manual? Do you find it to be helpful?