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Taking a 55 year old vehicle apart
I have a few photo's of the process of stripping the Jeep. If you have never done this before and fear it a bit take heart it's the easiest part of the whole project. Putting one back together is where most people give up!
Here's how I go about it. First remember it may be a long time before this thing gets put back together and your (mine!) memory of how things looked and were connected is going to fade. The most important step I think, is to document everything you can with pictures. I have a digital camera, and suggest that you get one too. You can take all the pictures you want and save them for future reference. I shot close to 80 photo's of details that were easy to see as I removed various body panels. Hopefully I'll be able to put back all the clips and wires in their exact factory routing locations. Without the pictures, I'd never remember all the little details.
General tips for taking a Jeep apart (and getting it back together)
- Get and use a camera
- Get a Sharpie marker and a box of ziplock bags. Bag and identify bolts and all small parts removed from assembys. ex. I bagged all the bolts for the bumper. Next I bagged all the bolts from the removal of the grill, front fenders and radiator.
- Box up the parts in an orderly way. I just use old cardboard boxes.
- DO NOT THOW ANYTHING AWAY! Don't ask how I know this! Get a large box, label it "Jeep Junk" and pitch anything that appears to be useless into it. You will be digging in this box later, trust me.
- Think about the steps needed ahead of time. Don't just randomly start removing stuff.
- Leave things assembled as much as possible. It's easier to work on a whole assembly later when you are restoring it, than find and figure out a bunch of little pieces. ex. Remove the axles at the spring mounts and leave the whole thing as one until time to repair.
Here are a few shots of body removal
Steps I took to remove the body
- Drained gas and removed the tank.
- Removed the front bumper
- Disconnected front light wiring, and unbolted/removed grill assembly
- Removed all things attached to inside of front fenders, removed fenders.
- Unhooked all wiring, speedometer cable, ebrake cable that penetrates the firewall.
- Removed the exhaust pipe from the manifold.
- Removed the manifolds/carb from the engine. This is for the next step.
- Using a pitman seperating fork, remove the pitman arm from the steering box.
- Unbolt the steering box from the frame.
- Remove all the tub to body bolts (or what left of them). On mine these were mostly a rusty mess. I cut most off with a 4" electric grinder.
- Remove the transmission cover plate, and transfer case boot.
- I used a chain hoist to lift the front of the tub up and over the shifter levers. Then, I propped up the back of the tub on a saw horse and rolled the chassis out from under.
Engine/transmission removal
- With the body gone the whole engine/transmission is removed in one piece.
- Remove the two front engine mount bolts.
- Unhook the stell frame fuel line from the rubber one that goes to the fule pump
- There are three bolts in the back for the transfer case. A snubber bolt, and two bolts thru the crossmember for the transfer case mount. One of these bolts is accessed thru a hole in the bottom of the skid plate. There is also a cable/bolt assembly to remove on the drivers side of the transfer case.
- Unhook the clevis for the parking brake cable, and the bell housing clamp for the cable.
- Unhook clutch cable link from the pedal.
- Unbolt the bracket on the frame for the clutch linkage countershaft, and remove the shaft. Or you can leave this and just lift the engine out and the shaft will fall off as you move the transmission.
- There are no lifting eye's on the L-134, so use a nylon web type lifting strap wrapped around the engine and transmission.
- Lift engine/transmission from vehicle
Engine removal and frame pics
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