Two questions

[Duhwhat]

Is this normal for a 86 CJ? The lettering with no detail?



Second, how do I get the top part of the heater assembly off? I unfastened the firewall nuts and every other thing I can find, but the top part won't come off?

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I unfastened the four screws here also.
http://www.jeep-cj.com/gallery/files/4/8/0/7/jeep_064.jpg

 

[Cheepjeep85]

i do believe its just glue around the hole in the cowl that is holding that on there is also that drain hose that runs through the firewall.

 

[Old Dog]

That has to be an after market fender. pretty poor stamp.
Do you take all the screws out in the fresh air cover?

 

[Duhwhat]

That has to be an after market fender. pretty poor stamp.
Do you take all the screws out in the fresh air cover?

I did take them out. I'm thinking glue also, but haven't had a chance to try it again.

Both fenders are like that. Weird.

I felt behind it to see if somebody filled it in, but it is stamped that way.

I actually found a thread where they said that the later models had Joop because they didn't retool the stamp toward the end of the CJ era.

http://www.jeepsunlimited.com/forums/showthread.php?t=392284

 

[BusaDave9]

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You must have a Joop CJ7 . It sounds like your body was made my foreigners that couldn't spell. Maybe they were afraid of copyright infringement when making replacement body parts. That's not OEM. That's the metal itself, right? Not just bondo filed by a PO. Did you check out the inside of the body panel?

 

[Cheepjeep85]

mine is an 85 and its not like that, the sheet metal is the same as yours no changes, so that is probably a aftermarket stamping.

 

[Duhwhat]

mine is an 85 and its not like that, the sheet metal is the same as yours no changes, so that is probably a aftermarket stamping.

This google search of 'Joop CJ7 ' returns lots of folks with the different stamp. I am not a historian, so I don't know what was made where. From what I read, the YJ is this way and apparently they started doing it somewhere on some of the later model cj's. I am pretty certain this is the original tub based on what I have seen while dissembling it.

Google

 

[Duhwhat]

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You must have a Joop CJ7 . It sounds like your body was made my foreigners that couldn't spell. Maybe they were afraid of copyright infringement when making replacement body parts. That's not OEM. That's the metal itself, right? Not just bondo filed by a PO. Did you check out the inside of the body panel?

Look at this Google search for Joop CJ7 . Seems this is the original tub to me.

Google

 

[CJinPA]

My original 84 tub had Jeep stamped on the drivers side and Joop on the passenger side. There was a thread on Jeep forum a year or two ago about the stamp and it seemed that in 1984 the Joop stamp started to appear on some of the tubs. The aftermarket tubs up untill about a year ago had no stamp at all.

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[Duhwhat]

My original 84 tub had Jeep stamped on the drivers side and Joop on the passenger side. There was a thread on Jeep forum a year or two ago about the stamp and it seemed that in 1984 the Joop stamp started to appear on some of the tubs. The aftermarket tubs up untill about a year ago had no stamp at all.

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Thank you. The other thing that makes me pretty certain it is a factory tub is that there is no paint under any of the fasteners like the door or windshield frame etc. If it were an aftermarket tub, it would probably have been painted/primed before putting those fastners back on.