What I hate about factory service manuals ...

a) They start off almost every paragraph with "using special tool #@#$% ... I don't have these special tools.

b) No specifications for real blueprinting ... can't find nominal block deck height, piston pin height, piston dome volume, piston deck height, piston to valve clearance, combustion chamber volume, what specifications have been used for the advertised compression ratio, how advertised camshaft specifications are measured (duration as of what valve lift?), what the governor set RPM shift points are for an automatic transmission full throttle acceleration in "Drive"? After engineering each engine combination, all of this must have been figured out beforehand to insure the motors/transmissions didn't blow up at the initial start up ... so why not share the specifications with us? I know each engine combinations is different, but somebody behind the blueprinting has it all written down somewhere.

I'll usually cheap out and by the Haynes Manuals and regret it everything. Not sure whats worse not having the tool or the proper guess specs.