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I love the book but I keep getting confused by the references to the "right side of the car" and the "left side of the car."

I'm trying to take to heart his suggestions for reinforcing the TR4A frame and axle components.

I could almost swear several references to the left and right are reversed.

Maybe just me?
 
Generally any reference to "left" or "right" are referenced from "sitting" in the car. So left side would be the "drivers side"... at least that's the way I've been taught.
 
Andy- I was referring to the civilized world and not the "colonies" :jester:

About 72% of the world's total road distance carries traffic on the right, and 28% on the left.
 

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To quote my favorite car maintenance manual author, John Muir, author of "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot," Front is: front of the car. Rear is: rear of the car. Right is: right, as you're sitting in the driver's seat. Left is: left, as you're sitting in the driver's seat. It's a good system. Great, actually, if we all adhere to it.
 
, John Muir, author of "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot,"



I wish there were more Manuals like that. These Forums come pretty close, I guess.
 
There's at least one other, by Larry Owens, in the same series. It deals with Subarus, and it was absolutely invaluable the past couple months as my son and I built a "new" EA-81 engine for his '81 Subaru GL sedan. I'm pretty familiar with engines, having rebuilt and/or overhauled several each Volvo and Triumph engines, but I'd never done a water-cooled, split-case flat-four Subaru before. In fact, I've not been inside any flat-four engines since about 1970, when a buddy of mine was into Beetles and such.

In spite of the subtitle of the book, it does not really treat you like an idiot, but it does explain things very, very well in a way that both mechanics and nonmechanics (my son was the latter, but he learned an awful lot through this ordeal) can easily understand and follow.
 
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