there's a lot of shade-tree mechanics who have successfully rebuilt engines with thousands of parts. essentially figuring out how to rebuild an engine is similar to figuring out how to build one from scratch, which is within human capacity, particularly with background knowledge. but the guy rebuilding the engine has a lot of hints
granted, he'll probably fuck up his first two or three pretty good without haynes or chilton
granted, he'll probably fuck up his first two or three pretty good without haynes or chilton