66 Cj5 - What Am I Looking At ?

This one has the BOP bell housing with the stock iron adaptor.

The one piece bell housing was available only with the 71 model, so is rare, but was evidently a popular item for V6 conversions in earlier Jeeps while it was available from the dealers and junk yards.

I have one of those 71 bell housings in my barn which was drilled and tapped to accept a T-90 for a conversion made into a CJ5 Standard. That one piece bell housing makes for a nice conversion which I have encountered on a couple of Jeeps I have owned.

 

Just for reference, here's the long belhousing, T-14, and large hole single stick transfer case out of my '71:


All of which was replaced with a standard BOP bellhousing, T-18, dual stick large hole transfer case, and overdrive.

 

Picture of the roll cage on this Jeep, it is big tubing.

 

Who is to say the tub is original to the frame?

 

Unless I can find a number on the frame, I don't know who is to say the tub is original to the frame.

Looks like it has been there a long while though, long enough for the hat channels, and most of the floors, to rot and settle around the frame.