1999 Chevrolet Chevy Service and Repair Manual

This factory service and repair manual for the 1999 Chevrolet Chevy is a book about one car sold many ways. The mechanical core is a pair of naturally aspirated single-cam fours, 1.6L and 98 cubic inches or 1.4L and 85, and above it sit a four-door sedan, a four-door hatchback and a two-door hatchback in Base, Joy, Monza, Swing and Taxi form. The service sections follow that shape: engine content by displacement, body and wiring content by shell, everything else shared.

Engines covered

• 1.6L inline-four (98 cu in) — SOHC, naturally aspirated, gasoline
• 1.4L inline-four (85 cu in) — SOHC, naturally aspirated, gasoline

Body styles covered

• 4-door sedan
• 4-door hatchback
• 2-door hatchback

Trims covered

• Base
• Joy
• Monza
• Swing
• Taxi

Known issues on the 1999 Chevy. NHTSA holds twelve complaints for this model year, and the top of the list divides evenly, two on the service brakes, two on the steering and two on the electrical system. That trio maps onto three of the manual's larger sections. Brake hydraulics and friction specifications, steering linkage, column and gear procedures with their torque values, and wiring diagrams complete enough to trace a circuit rather than guess at it are all here, along with the diagnostics that decide which of the three a symptom really belongs to.