Great advice. I bought my 56 on a whim - too much time surfing the internet after shoulder surgery. Once I recovered enough to drive it (not...
I have a Lockright in the rear of my 56. Love it off-road tolerate it on blacktop. I am not sure I would go that route if it only saw 3% off-road....
Great advice. I just bought a new Miller 211 (inverter) a couple months ago. Best little MIG I have ever owned when running on 220 house current....
Thanks. The doors were on the Jeep when I bought it. They are fiberglass. The PO had a YJ hard top on it with custom canvas panels that snapped on...
Good idea Focker. I had no idea that these old Jeeps could be such Frankensteins.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Thanks everyone. Now that I know what parts will work - it looks like all of the early wagons and trucks used the same brakes -...
[ATTACH] I finally decided to service the wheel bearings and take a look at the brakes on my 56 CJ5. I knew that they had been upgraded many years...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] When you say that only half the brakes are working, I am not sure that you fully understand the operation of a dual master...
Thanks for the response - That makes perfect sense.
I just finished rebuilding the D-18 transfer case in my 56 CJ5 and noticed that I had two small round gaskets left. The rebuild kit came from...
Nice looking Jeep. "A bit of play in the steering when driving" sounds like a pretty normal thing for a vintage Jeep. When I bought my 56 the guy...
Since you already have the valve covers off, try removing the rockers and tap on the valves for the two bad cylinders. Sounds to me like you have...
I agree - check the end play on the crankshaft. The easiest way to do that in the vehicle is to put a dial indicator on the front pulley. Push the...
No problem - I wasn't very clear
If you still have the original master cylinder setup, which it sounds like you do, there is no power boost like you would find on a newer vehicle....
Great for relatively light stuff like Jeep work. I had a friend try and pull a big block Chevy with TH400 trans out of his Blazer and the thing...
I too have been trying to come up with a good place to safely store stuff. Where I live, it needs to be locked up. I found a nice tool box at a...
Thanks everyone for the feedback on this. I did decibe to spend the $30 and get a set of offset dowel pins. I figured that since it was still...
Great job. The retro part is what makes it unique. How boring would it be if all of our 56s were exactly the same.
I am sensing that the difference here is the "independent registration office" vs. the DMV. One of the benifits of living in a more populated area...
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