Electrical documentation on the older trucks

[cdsmith_2002]

The Factory Service Manual electrical documents for my 97 D1 and 95 RRC is very good.

I also have the factory service manual for my 1988 RRC, and the electrical documentation is poor. The main circuit diagram does't include any connector details. Some circuits have dedicated separate documents that show connectors etc but not every circuit is available.

Is there a separate electrical book for the older trucks or is all that is available is what is included with the Factory Service Manual?

 

[az_max]

RAVE or the factory service manual are all that I've seen out there.

 

[ajtbussen]

The heritage motor centre Classic North America 1987 -1995 DVD is the best I've found.

 

[cdsmith_2002]

I forgot about that resource. A friend gave me a copy but I was never able to get it to launch, even on a few different PCs.

 

[jymmiejamz]

We have electrical troubleshooting manuals for most years of the Classics here at the dealership. I'm sure they are probably no longer available to buy, but you may be able to find one on ebay.

 

[ajtbussen]

The heratige classic DVDs are hexalocked. You will have a very hard time getting a copy to work. Only an original will work and I've never gotten it to work on anything newer than windows XP. That's why I still have a old laptop running XP around.

 

[cdsmith_2002]

By copy I meant that I was given the original, it's not a burned bootleg copy.

I found an xp machine at work. It will launch to the main menus but does not open any documents. This machine has Adobe Reader X.

 

[ajtbussen]

Maybe it's wants to see an older version of PDF viewer?

 

[cdsmith_2002]

I removed Adobe X and installed Adobe Reader 7.0. 7.0 was current to the time when the CD was published. It won't open individual pdf's from the disc. I suspect that the pdf's were modified only to work with the exe, which won't launch. Frustrating!

 

[ptschram]

The heratige classic DVDs are hexalocked. You will have a very hard time getting a copy to work. Only an original will work and I've never gotten it to work on anything newer than windows XP. That's why I still have a old laptop running XP around.

Curious, I can run these on my Snap-On Windows seven machine but not the shop Seven machine.

 

[jafir]

Curious, I can run these on my Snap-On Windows seven machine but not the shop Seven machine.

I'll bet one copy of windows 7 is 32 bit and the other is 64 bit. Does one of the computers have more than 4GB of RAM?

They could be 16 bit windows applications (like windows 3.1). If your windows 7 is 32 bit, the WOW layer (windows on windows) will allow it to run old 16 bit programs. If your windows is 64 bit, the WOW will only allow it to run older programs that are 32 bit.

 

[cdsmith_2002]

I found an old XP laptop with Adobe 9. Works like a charm! I was very happy that the content was on par with whats available on the RAVE CD for the 90's trucks.

 

[discorona]

The heratige classic DVDs are hexalocked. You will have a very hard time getting a copy to work. Only an original will work and I've never gotten it to work on anything newer than windows XP. That's why I still have a old laptop running XP around.

I?m running the Heritage classic dvd on my Macbook Pro loaded with Windows 7 & Parallels. Works ok, somewhat slow and definitely has to have Adobe Reader, any version.

 

[discorona]

http://soother.tv/diy/rangerover/classic_ocr.pdf

Here is a link to a European version of the classic manuals that will open on any operating system. It takes a few minutes to download but opens quickly.