Hi,

a few months ago I bought the Cutlass Assembly Manual from an ebay seller. It came in loose pages, copied on both sides. I am not satisfied with my buy, since the stack of papers seems to miss certain portions, as well as some copies did not turn out well. Is there another printer out there who will make better reproductions?

Regards, Tom

 

I went to a swap meet a couple of months ago and there were originals available for around $30. A person might want to try amazon.com I'm not sure where you might find one in Germany May be one someone on the board has an extra. when I looked through it a lot of the info seemed redundant with the chassis manual though so I opted to just get the chassis manual. Don't know if any of this will help or not.

 

Unfortunately, they all look like that. These are reproductions of factory documents and all come from the same originals. I have copies for 66, 68, 69, 70, and 72. In one case the pages are out of order. In all there are pages missing. Unfortunately that's about the best there is.

 

Sometimes, pages are not actually missing, but located in the entirely wrong section.
I was looking through mine (Milleneum) last night and found 6-1 113 in the O section, with O88 right on the other side of it. There was another goof I saw, but forgot the page #. Go figure...
I put mine in a 1.5" ring binder; works okay I s'pose...

 

I found some mismatches, too. Also used a ring binder and sorted out the pages. But still not satisfied with the paperwork itself. So I keep on looking for a original book.

 

http://www.autobooks-aerobooks.com
http://www.faxonautoliterature.com

Norm

 

@88 coupe: Thanks for the links, but they all sell the same quality book. I really wonder that there is only one book as a model for the reprint of the cutlass assembly manual. During the years there must have been more books. I.e. the chassis service manual is available more often.

Regards,
Tom

 

Now that this is stinging out, my curiosity is piqued. Should I have gotten the assembly manual in addition to the chassis manual? Is there extra information in there that I might need to build a not quite original street machine? I'm not going for concourse or anything, just a solid driver plus a surprise or two under the hood, so I didn't think it was a worth wile investment.

 

I don't know if Autobooks still deals in used literature, but Faxon does.

Because their inventory changes daily, they could have an "original" tomorrow, or the next day.

Norm

 

Hi Norm,

thanks for your hint, I'll check more often.

Regards,
Tom

 

I have every manual and catalog I can get my hands on, they're like the DNA of the car.
You need all the manuals to cover everything IMO, and they don't really cover it all. The assembly manual has lots of drawings and info specific to the car that's not in the Chassis Service or Fisher Body A-body (or whatever) all division manual.
I don't think the assembly manual was ever an actual "book" or meant to be detailed instructions on every phase of building the car, in that case it would take volumes to cover everything they did.
I have read that the info was generally for assembly line workers and plant managers to be a guide and to show their respective assembly plant procedures and differences, updates, and deletions. Basically what they needed to know that day on the line, you probably get whatever it ended up as at the end of that year's production.

Allan

 

Thanks amh. I guess I'll have to chase one down now. I owe I owe...

 

These could have also been used at dealers, for instructing their techs how to add or remove options.
For example, the ***'y manual shows exactly what changed when HD cooling is added, or when a 350 is replaced with a 455.

Anything on the body that Fisher did (assembling doors, etc) is not included in the ***'y manual. Therefore I am thinking the factory used them the most.

From what I remember, I got this book from OPG for around 30 bucks, so the investment was small. Info content is great though...

 

On a related note, does anyone have (or heard of) the separate '72 Olds engine ***'y manual # 410127?

This manual is mentioned several places in my assembly manual. It would be section 6 (not 6-1) of the ***'y manual.

It would be nice to find one some day...