Has anyone installed door locks on a M715? If so what did you use?
It sure would be nice to be able to lock it up. They may not have been necessary in 1967 but today it's almost mandatory.
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Has anyone installed door locks on a M715? If so what did you use?
It sure would be nice to be able to lock it up. They may not have been necessary in 1967 but today it's almost mandatory.
You can use the ones from civilian Full Size Jeeps. The inside of the door has the basics you need for manual locks...you just need the stuff...power locks can be done with a litle more work...
It is essentially the same door inside that they used on civvy models.
Thanks
I gotta say brute4c, youre a wealth of knowledge !
Any specific years? Late 70's wagoneers? or does it have to be older?
The basic door is the same all the way up....any of the manual locks will go easy.
Actually, I know this due to one of our members doing all the hard work to figure it all out...heres a link where he shows how to do power windows, locks and more with a civvy door...GREAT writeup:
http://bigscaryjeep.com/Civilian%20Doors.html
Look around his site, there are a few other jewels you might enjoy as well.
Ive been reading on this site since December. There is soooo much information here. I've barely scratched the surface. I sometimes forget to use the search function. Sorry:oops:
No sweat...we are all here to learn!
Funny, my M715 has a key on the door and a plunger lock thing on the passenger door. I am almost certain they were stock military doors, too. If it didn't come that way from the factory, which I'm sure it didn't, I believe the Forest Service put them in. I have no idea if they work or not, either. Never tried them!
One word of advice though for soft-topped vehicles with locked doors: Leave them unlocked. It's hardly a hassle to take a knife to your top in order for a car-burglar to reach in and unlock the door.
I have seen Forest Service trucks with that setup...open the drivers door with a key...no plunger there...and then lean over and unlock the plunger on the paassenger door...but no key lot on that side.
Definitely not factory but works good.
The part about locking the doors with the canvas top is oh so true.
I have a Jeep Wrangler that we use mostly in the summer and we never lock it. I learned from one of my employees about locking a rag top jeep. His was knifed open twice even with nothing inside to steal. He then ran only a bikini top and no doors. We did not lock a Transam convertible we had either however we rarely took that where we had to park.
Does anyone know what lock mechanism is best? Out of what year FSJ?
The manual locks are the same for all years of the FSJ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freakshow
A big black dog in the passenger seat works really well.
All the FSJ door locks are the same. If you get an electric lock, you could get a remote kit to go with it to keep the door locks hidden.
My M715 occasionally spends the night on the street. Locking it would mean that someone would cut the soft top to get inside and that soft top is far more expensive than anything they can steal from the cab. So the truck remains unlocked.
True that. Most expensive thing in my cab is a crappy boat stereo. I'd rather they took it than cut the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikel
My truck has a chain welded to the floor. Right after I bought it a friend of mine who is a Vet came by to show me how to use the 3 way switch. I asked about the chain and he said they wrapped it around the steering wheel and locked it to keep unauthorized people from taking them. Even if they start it they can't make any turns.
Running an auto trans with a Winters shifter and use the chain to lock it into park. I like that better than just locking the steering wheel... they might get ed and just run it into my house...
When I go back to a 4 speed I might look at a way to lock the clutch pedal. or move the chain and lock the trans in reverse.
All of our trucks had chains welded to the seat frame. Especially if you turned the wheel and wrapped the chain around the wheel and spoke, it wasn't going anywhere. I have even seen a chain wrapped around the brake (or clutch) pedal and then around the steering wheel. :rolleyes: