This has to be a hybrid, right?

My CJ5 has me pretty baffled. I thought it was a '75. I still think most of it is. But something I ran across here in Early CJ5 has me confused. As you can see in the attachments, it has the under seat gas tank as well as passenger rear tank. There is a switch between the front seats for selecting the tank in use. IIRC, they stopped the under seat tank in 71 or so. Yet everything else seems to say 75. The matching vins on both the dash label as well as the engine firewall are 75. Has the 304, D44 in rear, D30 in front, and D20 tc. What do you guys think? Doesn't this have to be an older tub?

 

I cant help you identify, but thats kind of a cool option. You always have extra gas.

I'm always filling the 11 gal underseat tank in my cj.

11 gal dosent get you very far with a 304.

 

The location of the Jeep script on the side changed for late 74, that would be one way to identify a 75 tub. One area you might investigate.

Nice Jeep.

 

:iagree:

common modification

 

Yep, I did that to my '73 in '73. Very common.

 

Thanks much. Makes sense. Only wished he had used those skillz on some of the other problems too!

John

 

Thats pretty cool. The PO probably did'nt want to deal with jerry cans on those long trails. Sounds like you should have about 27 Gal. combined capacity.

 

Another way to tell if a stock '72-'75 tub is if it has the heater grill in the cowl. '71 and older didn't have those......
Nickmil

 

My 75 has both tanks. I took the one out from under the seat because I had a lot of rewiring to do. I just am not too comfortable sitting on 10 gallons of excitement. It may find its way back in there someday.

 

I think it's funny how everyone is uneasy about sitting on the gas tank. How many million Jeeps were made like that? How many million went through WW2 and Korea where bullets were flying around? Anyone ever heard of somebody blowing up with their gas tank? I haven't. Seems like if your tank does decide to go ka-blooey it wouldn't matter if it was under you or a foot behind you in the bed, you'd be a goner regardless.

Millions of Ford, Chevy and Dodge pickups were made with the tank in the cab behind the seat. Never heard of one of them going up in flames either.

 

I personally prefer the tank under the seat cause if something a catasprophic as the tank exploding were to occur, it's a quicker death
Unfortunaly most tanks don't explode like in the movies, the tank usually ruptures and the fuel is ignited

 

at least Jeep didn't have the Pinto problems, even with the Jeep tank being moved to the rear.
It's never bothered me, never a worry here.
And I was riding shotgun in a CJ that the drivers tank did catch fire in/on.
Jeep stalled out going up a steep dune; while on the side of the dune, carb flooded and had gas coming out the open headers with flames; the cure is to fire the Jeep to blow out the flames; before that could happen, the gas dripping from the drivers under seat tank caught fire. Driver grabbed the fire extinguisher from on top the tank and put it out. No biggie.
Did I mention I was only 11 or 12 years old and exited the Jeep in nanoseconds?

 

sorry to hear
I knew it had to have happened to somebody, somewhere.

 

has anyone watched mythbusters on the discovery channel? they dispelled the myth that if a gas tank gets shot it wont explode. but i dont remember if they tried tracers. any way tracers are very hard to get ahold of anyway cuz there illigal

 

looking at the picture of that 75 cj5 the back tank doesnt look original cuz the filler hose is on the side and not the back of the jeep