K-F published general shop manuals and special manuals for specific items such as power steering. Manuals distributed by the factory are under the heading Factory Shop Manuals and include for the most part only those manuals and supplements required for complete coverage of all year models. There are many more factory manuals, either in preliminary or advance information form, that are of interest to collectors but are not required for servicing K-F cars. No attempt was made to include items as supplied by original equipment manufacturers such as Carter and Delco-Remy. An obvious exception is the overdrive manual published by Borg-Warner. (Manuals such as these were frequently included with Service Bulletins-see below for more on Service Bulletins.)

A quick inspection of the list shows coverage for all Kaiser, Frazer, and Henry J models through 1953 (the '54 J is identical to the '53).

The appropriate repair items for use with '54-'55 Kaisers are spelled out in K-W Service Bulletin No. 275 (December 13,1954):

• 1951 K-F Shop Manual and Supplement
• Service Bulletin K-W 229 (covers new features for '54)
• Kaiser Service Standards Book for 1952-53-54
• Kaiser Hydra-Matic Shop Manual and Supplement
• Kaiser Power Steering Manual

Absent is any reference to the Supercharger Manual. It was published after December of 1954.

Note that there is no separate manual for the Darrin. K-W Service Bulletin 275 lists the following for Darrin service:

• Service Bulletin K-W 176 (advance service information - the old K-F number for this bulletin is 416)
• Service Bulletin K-W 258 (plastic body repair)
• 1951-1952-1953 Henry J Shop Manual(general chassis except for engine, brakes, wheels, and tires)
• Willys Mechanic's Manual for Models 675, 685 (engine information)
• 1951 K-F Shop Manual (brakes, tires and wheels)

Service Bulletins supplement the information in the shop manuals. They frequently cover "fixes" for unanticipated problems in cars after they had been in the hands of customers, etc. They contain information not generally found in the shop manuals. K-F published a total of 418 service bulletins and K-W "carried-over" some of these and some of the old Willys bulletins; the K-F carry-overs were renumbered from 2 to 178 and the Willys from 179 through 219 or 220. New K-W bulletins started with either 220 or 221 and continued through at least 300.

Factory Service Standards Books list all the specifications needed in servicing vehicles such as torque values, front-end alignment specs, etc.

Factory Parts Manuals are not quite as useful perhaps as the shop manuals, but the ones that are illustrated sometimes supplement information in the shop manuals. Original part numbers are of some value even with rapidly vanishing supplies of new-old-stock parts. Other valuable resources are the Parts and Parts and Accessories Price Lists. These are the major listings of updates, corrections, cross references, and cancellations of parts and accessories.

There are numerous non-factory publications that may be of interest. Parts coverage in these manuals is not as comprehensive as in the factory manuals. The body manuals contain information that may not be available elsewhere.

The wiring diagram books are probably not as well-known as some of the others.

The Hollander manuals may also be unfamiliar to some people. These were used by salvage yards to look up interchangeable parts and may be of some use.

Factory Shop Manuals

• 1947-48 January 1948 on cover, March 1948 inside, Copyright 1948 (225-48) (covers 1947 and 1948 models)
• 1947-1948-1949 July 1949 (X-19499)(covers 1947-1950 models; also exists in Export Edition with no form number but same date)
• 1951 March 1951 (X-19511) 1951 Kaiser and Frazer
• 1951-1953 November 1952 (X-19523) all Henry J
• Hydra-Matic February 1953 (X-19531) Models K-50, K-51, K-52
• Hydra-Matic February 1953 (X-19532) Supplement for model K-53 (use with X-19531)
• 1952-1953 March 1953 (X-19534) Shop Manual Supplement for 1952-53 models (use with X-19511)
• Power Steering May 1953 (X-19535)
• Supercharger Mechanics Manual Willys Motors, Inc., Kaiser-Willys Sales Div., no date
• The OVERDRIVE Warner Gear Div. Borg-Warner, no date

Factory Service Standards Books

• Kaiser Special Model K-100 and Frazer Model F-47; Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and Graham-Paige Corp.
• Kaiser-Frazer 1949 models (September 1949) (also covers 1950)
• Kaiser-Frazer 1951 models (August 1951) (X-19515)
• Henry J 1951-1952-1953 models; (November 1952) (X-19524)
• Kaiser 1952-1953-1954 models; Willys Motors, Inc., Kaiser-Willys Sales Div.

Factory Parts Manuals

• 1947-1948 Kaiser-Frazer Combined Chassis Parts List (illustrated) April 1948
• 1949 Kaiser-Frazer Combined Chassis and Body Parts List (illustrated) May 1949 (use for 1950 also)
• 1951 Frazer Preliminary Combined Chassis and Body Parts List (not Illustrated) March 1950 (PA 3501)
• 1951 Kaiser Combined Chassis and Body Parts List (Illustrated) June 1951 (PA 5511)
• 1952 Hydra-Matic Parts List July 1952 (Covers K50, K51, K52) (PA 75210)
• 1953 Hydra-Matic Parts List January 1953 (Supplement for K53) (PA 1531)
• 1952-1953 Parts List (not Illustrated) February 1953 (Covers K521, K522, K530, K531, K532) (PA 2533) (use with PA 5511)
• 1953 Parts List for the Kaiser Carolina (not Illustrated) March 1953 (PA 3534) (use with PA 5511)
• 1953 Parts List Supplement for Kaiser Models Equipped with Power Steering (not Illustrated) May 1953 (PA 5538)
• 1954 Kaiser Combined Chassis and Body Parts List (not Illustrated) April 1954 (no number) (use with PA 5511)
• 1951 Henry J Combined Chassis and Body Parts List (Illustrated) November 1951 (PA 12514)
• 1952-1953 Parts List for Henry J (not Illustrated) February 1953 (PA 2532) (use with PA 12514)
• Sports Car (Darrin) Parts List Combined Chassis and Body (Illustrated) May 1954 (KP-19531)

Other Service/Parts Manuals

• Motor's Auto Repair Manual, Sixteenth Edition, Motor, New York (1953)
• Motor's Flat Rate and Parts Manual, 27th Edition (1946-55 cars), Motor, New York (1955)
• Chilton's Motor Age Flat Rate and Service Manual, 27th Edition, Chilton, Philadelphia (1956)
• The NEW Thompson Repair and Tune-Up Manual Vol I-Passenger Cars, Thompson Products, Cleveland (1951) (Covers 47-50 K-F selected photo coverage)
• Motor's Body Shop Flat Rate and Parts Manual, 1st Edition, Motor, New York (1954)
• Chilton's Motor Age Body and Frame Manual, Seventh Edition, Chilton, Philadelphia (1956)
• Motor's Auto Wiring Diagrams, 2nd Edition, Motor, New York (1954) (covers K-F, Willys,no Darrin)
• The Hollander Manual, 27th Edition, Hollander Publishing, Minneapolis (1961)