I purchased one of these manuals for my 1983 diesel
Westy, and would have to place it somewhere between
the Haynes and the Bentley manuals.

The Russek certainly offers more step-by-step text
than the Bentley, to walk one through a given
procedure, but seems slightly inferior to the Haynes
in this regard. The Russek manual may have a little
more technical data and specs than does the Haynes.
The Russek also seems to have replaced the Bentley's
nice airbrushed photos and line illustrations with
itchy-n-scratchy drawings done with a dull felt-tip
marker. It is plain to see that these bad drawings
were TRACED over the VW photos found in the Bentley
(both Bentley and Russek evidently purchased the photo
rights from VW).

I suggest you instead round out your diesel Westy
library with the Haynes manual for the Rabbit diesel.
If I could somehow merge the Engine chapter from this
manual with the non-Engine chapters from my '83
air-cooled Vanagon manual ... Maybe a utility knife
and some duct tape.

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