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Daimler DS420 Owner's Manual 1038/1 (1974)
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This is the fourth version of the Owner's Manual
(Operating, Maintenance and Service Handbook) for the DS420.
It was published in 1974, after the change to the Borg Warner model 12 gearbox.
This handbook explicitly states that it serves the cars from chassis
number 1M2408 (LHD: 1M20087) and engine No. 7M2503 onward.
The cover, shown above, looks similar to the cover of the
previous version E1017/3 (1972).
It has the same hard cover style, but its size is about 1 cm. smaller in
both directions (21.5×15.5 cm).
Still older is E1017/1 (1969).
The most visible changes over the previous Owner's Manual E1017/3 (1972) are:
- Change from Borg Warner 8 gearbox to BW12.
Page 16 and 17 show
how the new gearbox uses indications
P-R-N-D-2-1 where the previous model used P-R-N-D2-D1-L.
- The carburetters have changed from HD8 to H.S.8
(page vii (i07)).
- All references to the engines with High and Standard compression
ratio have disappeared. Only Low compression is left
(page 29).
- The position of the fog lamps under the front bumper has changed
(page 60).
- The photograph on page ii
(i02) of the introduction has been modified
to reflect the new position of the fog lamps (but not the
shadows they cast on the ground). Also the vertical pillar in the last
side window has been removed (on both sides); this change was obviously
overlooked in the previous edition.
- Compared to the previous manual
(E1017/3 p18) this model lost the possibility
to start the engine by pushing (sic) the car.
The BW8 had two pressure pumps: one front and one rear.
When pushed, the road wheels would engage the rear pump and thus provide
the necessary hydraulic pressure to engage the gear.
The BW12 only had one pump, in the front. It thus could not provide hydraulic
pressure when pushed....
The next edition of the Owner's Manual in my collection is
the red covered publication number AKM8090 (1st Ed)
from 1980.
Still later are AKM8090-2 (1983),
AKM8090-3 (1987) and the
very last one AKM8090-4 (1989),
If you want to start browsing through this 1974 manual (74 pp.)
from the first page on,
click Here.
The following list is an expanded version of the table of contents
of the manual:
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