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Originally Posted by DKG
The F head are available and fairly inexpensive. You are right about the diesel endorsement. The Motor Vehicle Inspector at the main RTA is a huge Jeep aficionado. I am hoping he would help me get it back to petrol endorsement.
On the job Sir. Have lined up two engines which I will fire up on the weekend and then either have them rebuilt and put in or if its in good health will go in direct. |
Actually, the law is now against converting or restoring back to petrol power to diesel or vice-versa.
If it is diesel endorsed, leave all your efforts to get a petrol engine, otherwise you will be either running your jeep illegally or standing at a lost, hence lookout for a XD3P diesel engine. More refined and silent compare to the B275. Quote:
Originally Posted by DKG I agree, have never seen one either. One of my old passions was for ham radios. It would be nice to get this working. My friend Shams was saying the antenna is really special, he's not seen many of those either. |
I was just reading the exam preparations for hams, good to know about your interest too. Lets see if we can exchange some valuable ideas. I'm looking out for transceiver setup in my Jeep with VHS/UHS & HF (ofcourse love with in modern equipments) Quote:
Originally Posted by DKG BTW this is a Mahindra CJ3B of 1984. Could you please post a picture of what I should be seeking out for seats appropriate to the model and year? |
It is the same bench type seats came in MM 540 jeeps. The Bench type seats will have the passenger side seat extended to cover the gab between two seats leaving no room to jump from passenger area to cargo area. (Some of the pictures below are taken from CJ3B page) 
You will have a storage compartment under the driver's seat, I guess the Hydrabad guys are good at fabricating it. But I would love to keep the jeep with the current one (which is of Willys MB, Ford GPW or Willys CJ2A type)
The military type Mahindra CJ3B jeeps got foldable driver seat, see Arka's jeep picture. OgAAAM1misbQQ6qkAjCr5MkFcFRt02lRS9SQDSFo0kJuX9i-wtdiDNTpPJLcJ-XUtZ3kTr1MQzxBzD0w97DDqmhZZO0Am1T1UCX6
Only Mahindra Classic came with modern push back seats with headrests on it.
You need to decide if you wanted to restore the jeep to originality or use it with purposeful. The purposeful means that hard offroading, hence whatever you do the offroad trials will make it bad. So keep it cool no need to spend money until it needs attention.
The same will also applied for the front mud flaps, who cares if the original version don't have. As far as the extra fitting protects your vehicle keep them on. DONT REMOVE.
Last edited by trammway : 24th July 2009 at 14:22.
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