This book tries to do too much. I needed to change my oil pressure sending unit in my Dakota and there is no reference to an oil pressure sending unit much less a picture of one in this book. A waste of time and money.

To place it short and sweet, I also have found this mannual to be lacking in technical information. In the past I found Hanynes' manuals to be very informative, but this one needs a unconditional money back guarantee. It is very vague. It appears to be more of a maintance manual than a repair manual, which is the main reason I bought it!

I purchased this manual over a year ago and my Brother and I have replaced the carbeurator (87 only), head gasket, replaced radiatior and hoses, set rockers, learned the values of numerous electrical tasks we were stumbling over. The pages we use are referred to by us as dirty page maintenance, sort of a, been-there, done-that, symbolism. We are not mechanics, just broke enough to try the work ourselves. The manual has told, showed, and given hints to prevent oops-events. I give it Four Stars and have no reason not to give it Five.

Nice table of contents, but each section was littered with poor writing and repetitive comments about how great radiant heating is. This is obviously just a hidden manufacturer's pitch for radiant heating products.

I learned only one thing from this book: never buy a technical how-to book unless the author's experience and qualifications are given. R. Dodge Woodson dodged this point because he doesn't have any. As the author of several diverse titles in the McGraw-Hill "Professional" series, he is, obviously, just a non-technical writer. In this case, he has strung together useless platitudes based on what he understands from manufacturers' literature, which isn't much. He can't give any "real answers," as the book cover claims. Only the appendix of this book is useful. It contains data provided by the manufacturers, and that information can be obtained from them directly, probably at no cost! McGraw-Hill, years ago a premier publisher of informative and authoritative technical and scholarly books, should be ashamed of itself.

I will be returning my copy of Radiant Floor Heating by R. Dodge Woodson! I was primarily interested in "Dry Piping Systems. The chapter focused on dry piping systems in the text was redundant, cursory, and didn't "go" anywhere. The figures did not even remotely reflect what the text said. R. Dodge Woodson should start over from scratch with some SUBSTANCE.

The contents proved to be unrelated to the exam for the masters license in Georgia. The material lacks depth, seems to be put together hastily, the explanations over simplified.

We were very discouraged to find out that none of the material in the book is on any Journeymans test in N.C.! We can not see any use for this book as an aid to taking the Journeymans License Exam! It would be good reading for someone with no life and just likes to read for the sake of reading!

We used this book to study for the Texas State Journeyman Plumbers license test and no question in this book was asked on the test. Further, we could not find the answer in this book for any question we remembered from the test. We were greatly disapointed.

This book was dismal. The information provided is frequently lacking in key points (ie: (paraphrase)"The eight cylinder engine is like the six cylinder engine, so just extrapolate". Furthermore, upon receipt of the Haynes manual covering the same vehicles, it became immediately apparent that the Chiltons manual had left out critical information. The wiring maps are incorrect, and/or missing details - not to mention other issues. A potential buyer would do better to track down the Haynes Dodge & Plymoth Vans manual - or the shop manuals.

I WAS UNABLE TO REVIEW THIS BOOK.ACTUALLY I WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW BOOK ON A 1978 DODGE D50 THANK YOU

This book details the cars - the manufacturing information could be helpful to someone who doesn't know much about old Mopars. But the "buying" part was virtually nonexistent. A 1 to 5 star system gives the reader a VERY broad idea of which cars in a series are worth (or at least probably cost) more, but there is no information on what to look for except for one or two paragraphs per model line, and most of these are simply common-sense. I'm not surprised it's out of print - it's not worth the trouble to find unless you want some nice B&W photos.

Being a teenager from Maine I was intrigued to discover a story that it close to all of our hearts - discovering ourselves and falling in love with the first girl that shows us the slightest bit of attention. However, imagine my horror when after the first page I discoverd that this book was nothing more than than ill thought out imature example of someone who obviosuly dreams about such things but clealry spends too much time playing the latest Sony Playstation game.

Not at all worth the price, this huge disappointment has amateur effort written all over it. From its dark, grainy photos, to its total lack of substantial information, this book was a real let-down for me. Unfortunately this is the only book on Rootes Commercial Vehicles. Riddled with typos and grammatical errors, the bulk of the book is wasted on useless charts. Need I say more?

What kinda looney came up with this idea? Basically, you are a cadet and you have to survive in the Star Trek universe. I don't know. Get it if you're determined to.