Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: MilesP on January 21, 2014, 02:22:38 PM

Title: Need help
Post by: MilesP on January 21, 2014, 02:22:38 PM

Trying to post a picture on this form Forgot how to do  it I have a cool steering wheel need to know the year and car  some one tell me again how to do it

Title: Re: Need help
Post by: MilesP on January 21, 2014, 02:24:16 PM

I guess I did it by accident need help on wheel to  determine value make and model

Title: Re: Need help
Post by: Chris Luecht on January 21, 2014, 02:56:16 PM

That's a 1949-1950 Kaiser steering wheel, the one used on Specials, Travelers, etc not the one used on Deluxe, Virginian, Convertibles which was tenite plastic.

Title: Re: Need help
Post by: JoeKeys2010 on January 21, 2014, 08:05:17 PM

I have 2 deluxes and both have this kind of wheel on them.  Are you sure they never installed these on a Deluxe?  Seem odd that both cars would have had the steering wheel changed out on them.

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Post by: kaiserfrazerlibrary on January 21, 2014, 08:43:45 PM

Color is determining factor, according to page 144 of the 1949 Combined Chassis & Body Parts List (illustrated).  Hickory Brown & Mineral Gray colors were exclusive to the K491 Special models; Starlight pearl with a 3 3/4" medallion opening was used on Kaiser Deluxe Sedans & the same color with a 4 7/16" opening was used on all Deluxe models (including Virginian & Convertible). 

A Starlight Pearl wheel as also used on Kaiser Special 4-door sedans and Frazer standard models; no information other than separate part number compared to the other two wheels listed shows up in the document.

Don't tell me you're working on your car with an empty information tool box (no factory shop manual & no parts book)?

Title: Re: Need help
Post by: JoeKeys2010 on January 21, 2014, 09:16:11 PM

I have a shop manual; no parts list

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Post by: Mac_Frazer on January 22, 2014, 07:09:03 AM

Look at http://circlekf.com/
They have just about all the manuals in PDF that you can review and print pages.

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Post by: kaiserfrazerlibrary on January 24, 2014, 06:54:02 AM

The 1952V doesn't look right.  Padded dash in photo indicates the car to be an upper end Kaiser & they had the Tenite plastic steering wheel which was NOT painted.  Paint suggests the wheel is the special (1951-52V) or deLuxe (lower end Kaiser later 1952-53 model years) with the rubber ring rather than the plastic.

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Post by: Fid on January 24, 2014, 10:00:10 PM

It looks like this Deluxe has the hard rubber steering wheel. Nice looking car.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Other-Makes-Kaiser-Deluxe-1949-kaiser-deluxe-horizon-blue-no-reserve-/271376705335?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3f2f4fe737&item=271376705335&pt=US_Cars_Trucks