Repair Manuals

[HOMERFROMLAWTON]

Sure, a lot of repair manuals to pick from. You have Haynes Repair Manual 2225r, Clymer Repair Manual M506, Haynes Repair Service Manual 4064, Honda Motorcycle, GL1500a Gold Wing Aspencade (1993-2,000), published by Haynes, Clymer Repair Manual for Honda Gold Wing Se, Aspencade, Interstate 1993-2000, Haynes Repair Manual #2199 Honda Goldwing, and there are more than I have listed.
I know you all have different favorites, but I want to get the most helpful yet easy to understand. I have no book smarts, but I was born with a lot of common sense, and my mechanical abilities are good enough that I don’t have to spend a lot of money on things I can do for myself. I made a big mistake letting a Goldwing set for over 11 years without any preparation for storage. I tried to start it one day and the starter just clicked and kept saying I am going to get the Goldwing running this year. I have all the faring off and I am going to replace anything rubber. The engine was locked, but I pulled the spark plugs and filled the holes with diesel and it is now turns over, but I have a noise coming from what sounds like the transmission almost being in gear, but I have tried different gears and the noise is the same.
Good thing I have a hard head. I can see where I am going to rely on that for every repair, I make on it. I was lucky the plastic is not that brittle. The thing that helped most was I have 3 carports and a double car garage. I did not break anything taking the faring off, but there was one broken piece and another small crack. It never did sit in direct sunlight, but I am only seventeen miles from the Gulf of Mexico and the humidity is terrible, and the summer heat is extremely hot and being closer to the equator the sun's ultraviolet rays are bad. I never had any problems with skin cancer, until I moved to Corpus Christi 11 years ago, but every year I must get 5 to 7 precancerous growths froze off. But I am looking forward to hearing from the pros so I can improve on my own skills as I breathe life back into this wonderful machine I neglected for so long. A big part of the problem was my wife was fighting breast cancer, and in the last 5 years it started winning and she took a lot of my time.

[MikeB]

Sure, a lot of repair manuals to pick from. You have Haynes Repair Manual 2225r, Clymer Repair Manual M506, Haynes Repair Service Manual 4064, Honda Motorcycle, GL1500a Gold Wing Aspencade (1993-2,000), published by Haynes, Clymer Repair Manual for Honda Gold Wing Se, Aspencade, Interstate 1993-2000, Haynes Repair Manual #2199 Honda Goldwing, and there are more than I have listed.
I know you all have different favorites, but I want to get the most helpful yet easy to understand. I have no book smarts, but I was born with a lot of common sense, and my mechanical abilities are good enough that I don’t have to spend a lot of money on things I can do for myself. I made a big mistake letting a Goldwing set for over 11 years without any preparation for storage. I tried to start it one day and the starter just clicked and kept saying I am going to get the Goldwing running this year. I have all the faring off and I am going to replace anything rubber. The engine was locked, but I pulled the spark plugs and filled the holes with diesel and it is now turns over, but I have a noise coming from what sounds like the transmission almost being in gear, but I have tried different gears and the noise is the same.
Good thing I have a hard head. I can see where I am going to rely on that for every repair, I make on it. I was lucky the plastic is not that brittle. The thing that helped most was I have 3 carports and a double car garage. I did not break anything taking the faring off, but there was one broken piece and another small crack. It never did sit in direct sunlight, but I am only seventeen miles from the Gulf of Mexico and the humidity is terrible, and the summer heat is extremely hot and being closer to the equator the sun's ultraviolet rays are bad. I never had any problems with skin cancer, until I moved to Corpus Christi 11 years ago, but every year I must get 5 to 7 precancerous growths froze off. But I am looking forward to hearing from the pros so I can improve on my own skills as I breathe life back into this wonderful machine I neglected for so long. A big part of the problem was my wife was fighting breast cancer, and in the last 5 years it started winning and she took a lot of my time.

Your heading here is Repair Manuals. If your question is which manual to buy then Honda Factory Service manual published and sold by Helms is really the best manual to buy.
Go here: https://www.helminc.com/helm/Result.asp ... d%5Fmedia=

[HOMERFROMLAWTON]

I posted this in 3 forums and 100% of the people said the factory manual was the best. I had forgotten that i had bought the factory repair manual when i bought the Goldwing, and I thought I had lost it in the move to Texas. Now days they want $175, but I paid $75 for mine. It would be tough to work on a Goldwing without it.

[Winged Frog]

Can anyone tell me….would it be a huge mistake to buy a OEM Manual for a 1999 model when my bike is a 1998? We’re there significant changes in those model years?

[WingAdmin]

Can anyone tell me….would it be a huge mistake to buy a OEM Manual for a 1999 model when my bike is a 1998? We’re there significant changes in those model years?

Almost no changes at all. You should be fine with the 1999 manual.