Anyone interested in an offline version of Clark's Garage Shop Manual? For those times when you're working in the garage or something and there's no internet connection or whatnot... I threw together a standalone executable that you can stick on a USB drive or a CD, and you can access the shop manual and images as though you were on the website.

I just thought I'd share it, I use it every once in a while when I have my laptop with me in the parking lot while I'm working on the car and the wifi won't reach...

EDIT: I'll re-attach the link when I hear back from Clark's Garage.

 

Thanks for sharing, that is a great idea.

 

Brilliant.

 

I was thinking of this myself some time ago. Glad someone did it!
Is this something I can put and use on the ipad?

 

Thank you for doing that. is Clark okay with it?

Can you make a .dmg format? (I only run mac and linux)

 

Awesome!

 

Clarks does have the workshop manual all in PDF, just click on the link at the top of each page and save it in your documents on the iPad.

 

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to create an installable app out of this. Even if I did, I think it's $100+ a year to start a developer account with Apple. If you're jailbroken, you can SSH/FTP the right files over to a folder, set perms, and browse it as a local file (all other files, scripts, images, etc have relative paths).

I can give you a compressed archive with just the cached website in it, you'll just lose the application wrapper. You'll initiate it by clicking 'index.html' which will work so long as it's in the same directory as the supporting folder (which contains all images, scripts, etc).

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I hope Clark is ok with me doing this, he doesn't have ads on the WSM so I'm not cutting into his traffic in a bad way. I'll promptly take it down if I learn that I'm out of line here.

Correct, and good point for anyone who anyone who only needs one or two writeups. The version that I out together does not include these PDFs (or it would have been hundreds of megabytes).

 

Thanks for the great idea and effort!

 

Great job, Sausage!

 

Just thought I should mention a known issue: some temp files aren't deleted on program close, because technically some of them are still being accessed by Windows so it just gives up on deleting 60% of them. It creates a folder in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp

3 ways to get around this:

- Delete them manually, using a tool like CCleaner (which you should have anyway! it's great!) Get the 'Slim' build with no toolbar. Go to Options -> Advanced and uncheck "only delete files in Windows Temp folder older than 24 hours." Then run CCleaner, and it should nab them.

- Download the core files in post #8 on this thread and use that instead. Same basic thing, just not packaged.

- Ignore it, it's 63.5 megabytes

If I have time this week, I'll sit down and see if I can fix it

 

Good work Michael! I'll have to stick this onto the raspberry pi!
------------------------------------------------------- fixed^^

 

The executable needs x86-amd64 architecture
You could grab the core files and certainly browse them as local files (post #8)

Also it's raspberry* pi

 

Oh nice. This works. Let us when its ready. I have added a router to the garage specifically for this.

 

Am I the only one who thinks you should not rip off Clarks Garage?
That's copyrighted all rights reserved content that he put his soul into.