I was inspired to rant a bit after reading another posters trials and tribulations following a Haynes procedure. I was going to suggest he take that Haynes manual and use it to start his winter woodfires. Those boys have been ripping off the shadetree mechanic crowd for years.
If you have used their books to guide your work on different cars, you'll soon realize that 1/3 of every book is almost the same, with chapters on bodywork and safety etc. just copied over to fill the pages. The other 2/3 is poorly scabbed from official shop manuals, full of important detail errors and lots and lots of missing information.
Take a good look at the diagrams and the few pictures and notice that 90% are of 'typical' mechanical configurations. The few that are accurate are usually copied from the OEM source.
For the outrageous money they charge for these, over $25.00 here plus tax, you can get the worse CD manual out there and still be way ahead. I always get the factory manual for whatever car I buy, paper and CD. The way I figure it, the factory manual is like having a whole team of experts advising you at every step of the job. For the money spent, it's almost always less than 2 hours in the dealer's garage. The Haynes manual is like taking the advice of the knuckle buster ham mechanic down the road.
There, I feel better.....and happy holidays to all

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1986 560SL
2002 Toyota Camry
1993 Lexus