Near-original '67 CJ5

Beautiful. What a great looking Jeep.

 

Great looking Jeep. Nice pics.....Thanks for sharing.

 

I was looking at a DJ5D the other day - early 70's postal jeep - and that model may have the wiper knob you are looking for if you find one in a junk yard.

nice job on your 67 by the way. Looks nice. are the wipers electric? Well I re-looked at the original photos and it appears they are.

 

Very cool jeep. My 67 does have the back up lights. It also has different dash board locations for ignition and wiper electrical wire. Interesting.. Mine is untouched and was bought new by my dad. I still have the original carpet in it and user manuals. But several upgrades for the Rubicon which it sees every year. Keep it stock is a great idea for your jeep.
Peter

 

Questions about your dash...
What does the switch, far left, next to the wire that goes to the windshield say?
Is the Shifter plaque rivited on or is it a decal?
Was the glove box originally Black?
Is the speedo original? Looks like the dial indicated 1 - 9 instead of 10-90. My speedo is a 10-90. Wouldn't bet mine is original.

 

very nice . keep it stock , garaged

 

This is quite a perfect car. I try to keep mine as it was 41 years ago...except the spare tyre. The width of the car is too much, difficult to enter a parking garage or drive on narrow ways.
I plan to build something to put the spare tyre at the back. It exists.
I agree that the tyre on the right side give a vintage look, but is can be dangerous.

 

That switch is the wiper control knob, though I'll have to check to see exactly what it says (I keep the jeep about 20 min from where I live, but will take a picture of it in the next few days).

Re. the shifter plaque, it is a decal, but the P.O. put a clear plastic plate over it that is screwed to the dash, possibly to protect it when the jeep was being painted.

I just got an e-mail from the P.O. about the black glove box door, and he said that it was probably yellow originally.

The speedometer is a replacement, but is an exact NOS match for the original. I bought it on Ebay from a seller called bluemoonscooter11, who is in Vietnam. Apparently he bought a warehouse full of old US military stock that he's selling off, and these same speedos were used on some of the military jeeps in service during the Vietnam War era. It took a couple of weeks to arrive, but had 12v gauges and looks and works great. I took it apart and cleaned and re-lubed it with silicone grease, and set the odometer correctly. I just checked, and he is still selling them as of 12/12 (the listing says there are 8 left at this point).

 

Great looking jeep and thanks for sharing the photos.

As for additional ways to mount the spare here is a simple solution. My 55 has a piece of square tubing bolted to the drawbar that accepts a 2 inch piece of steel which has the spare.

 

I finally got around to taking photos of the original wiper knob on my '67, which matches the other dash knobs in terms of its size and shape (the overall diameter is approx. 1", and its depth is about 3/4"). Hope these are helpful!

 

Wake ing up another sleeping thread. Nice info. I am interested in the cam spec for yours. I have dreams of doing a build on a Dauntless also.

 

Hi Bert, Here's the cam card for the one in my 225 (which is bored out to a 231). This cam, which is based on modified Comp 260H design specs, has a good deal of duration and lift, but with the 112 degree lobe separation, it idles very smoothly and doesn't "lope". As I noted in the post on page 1 detailing what was done during the engine rebuild, with the new cam there is no noticeable change in low end torque, but mid and upper ranges have significantly increased power.

My engine builder built a number of 231's before he did my engine, and knew what he was doing when he spec'ed this cam, as it runs very well. Incidentally, the cam was nitrided (by Comp) to increase its durability.

 

Do you have any pics of it without the tire on?

 

I could get some, are you wanting photos of the way the tire mounts to the carrier? Or what exactly do you need?

 

Looks like good idea, so the more pics the better. I'm looking at a simple and easy to use options for moving the spare. It looks almost like just a receiver hitch bolted upright but hard to tell. Does it attach to tail gate or body corner.

 

A possible factor could be that the T-86 didn't have a backup light switch on trans.I recently owned a '67 cj5 w/ v-6 and T-86 trans and no backup lights.
I installed a t 14 (supposedly late '67 had t14) for the syncro first gear and wired it for aux. backup lights.

 

Really nice.

Do you know the name or Code # for that "Tweety Yellow" paint?

My '56 was repainted in a shade that looks identical, probably in the Sixties.

 

Thanks! The yellow is the original Prairie Gold that was used in the mid 60's. Here's a chart of the 1967 Kaiser Jeep colors that shows Pittsburgh's code for it (though the color appears brighter in the scan than it does on the jeep):