mark wrote:

Haynes: Turning the engine will be easier with the spark pugs removed.
Translation: However, starting the engine afterwards will be much harder.
Once that sinking pit of your stomach feeling has subsided, you can start to
feel deeply ashamed as you gingerly refit the spark plugs.


What I never understood is why the reasons they were so ruddy useless
were so obvious, yet they never did anything about it, just kept
churning out junk grade manuals. I eventually learnt go buy the mfr's
workshop manual, forget Haynes. More money, yes, but well worth it.

BTW the one about removing sparkplugs does work, I even used it once.
Perhaps the manual forgot to mention that you remove only half of
them, so the starter gets twice the runup to get over each
compression. Push starting is quicker though


NT