Get yourselfs a good book!

[LASTCJ786]

Get yourself a good book/manual that covers your year Jeep!
Swaps happen. My Jeep is an 86 with 6 bolt hubs ,a T-18 and Scout Dana 300 ford dist. cap and wires , YJ body and windshield frame. I know what I got but you may not.

also keep a copy of 4WD 4wheeldrive hardware www.4wd.com handy

You need to know things like this
CJ7 76-86
CJ5 55-71 short nose
CJ5 72-82 AMC
and so on.

There are wide track axles and narrow track what do you have?

 

[RP1]

Do you have a sugested book? I have no idea yet what I have but am excited to find out. I need other parts for this project but like you said I need to find out what I am starting with.
Could I have something stuck in the transition from CJ5 -CJ7 ?
I will go to the shop today and check things out, just got jeep yesterday, and try to identify something.

 

[LASTCJ786]

Jeep CJ Haynes repair manual
Jeep owners bible
Jeep CJ Rebulders manual
4wheelers bible

any good book store should have these.

 

[dslywalker]

try this place. also amazon.com for used and new books and CL
Bishko Books, Repair Manuals, Owners Manuals, Parts Books & Sales Brochures

Mike

 

[Old Dog]

A FSM (factory service manual) is great to have around also.
If you look around on line sometimes you can find free downloads.

 

[Biggregb]

What about "The Jeep Bible" written by Granville King? Does anybody have this or read this? I've heard this is a good book to have but I was wondering if anybody has any experience with it.

 

[LASTCJ786]

Yes that too. But even keeping a 4WD catalog near bye will help with years and part #'s

 

[defibvt]

Here is the 1974 CJ5 manual online. 74 Jeep Manual

 

[BajaEdition]

I run early jeeps, 71 and older
I find a very valuable book is the Omix Ada catalog

I will second the swap thing, you need to realise a lot of things got updated before you got the jeep so you need to identify parts. You get better with experience but at first you can pull your hair out.