6/11/2023 0 Comments Willys jeep cj3b serial numbers![]() Restorers, generally, consider that the axles are pretty good indicators of a Jeep's dates, figuring that they are likely the last to be swapped out." "And although this won't tell you which "year model" you have - as even those were juggled around to suit sales, with new tags offered from the factory to the dealers (at least in W-O times) - it will offer an indication of the time frame of your vehicle. You can, for example, read the assembly dates of your differentials in the case of the W-O models the assembly date was scribed in several places within the differential, notably at the rear side of the ring gear. "The date of the assembly of out-sourced components was scribed on them, usually. "In view that W-O discontinued offering stamped frames when they brought frame manufacture in-house from an outside vendor, the reverse might conceivably have occured at some time early in the Kaiser take-over period that is to say, the frames were out-sourced and therefore stamped, for some shorter period of time. ![]() Reed Cary summarizes what we (don't) know, in a posting on the CWML e-mail list: "Sometime after the Kaiser aquisition of Willys-Overland (and perhaps after the using up of W-O frames) some CJ-3B frames were stamped. Some CJ-3Bs carry various numbers stamped into the frame, which appear to be related to the serial number (VIN) as well as perhaps to parts identification.
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