Struggling with Repairs

When searching online,

Only to find

What you are looking for

Cannot be found.

Books of reference

Without much detail

Are equally the same.

Seems those who wrote them

Do not want others to know

Exactly how something is done,

And expect you to know.

Schematics, diagrams and photos galore,

But yet not one of them will reveal

What I am exactly looking for.

These people,

Chilton and Haynes,

Need to go back to researching

And re-learn how to explain

What they thought

They were learning.

Even Webster gets away

With brief descriptions.

Once such instance

Comes from his vest pocket edition.

Gorge as in land

Is a deep ravine.

Yet, ravine is...in terra form

A...hmm...gorge.

So how can one know

Where a rocker arm is?

When there isn't a diagram,

And the user is not a mechanic

There is much to be lost

In such incoherent translations.

A PVC valve connects to a hose,

Yet there is no name for

This alleged hose.

What were they thinking

When they wrote their books.

Should they go back

And re-read their own work?

Me thinks they must

As this would be just.

Make them try to work

From their own work.

Photographers and artists

Need to work together,

With the real mechanics

Who know vehicles go together.

Then they need to turn around,

And teach those who write,

Exactly how to pen

Each part and their type.

Mechanics may suffer

Just for a while.

Maybe just long enough

For our vehicles to get more miles.

Some of us like to work

On our cars and trucks.

We take chances,

And sometimes depend on luck.

When certain parts cannot be returned,

We do not want to waste

The money we earned.

Times are getting harder

To make ends meet.

But learning more

Can be such a feat.