The XL conversion kit was designed to provide more leg and belly room behind the steering wheel. It consists of a modified drivers seat frame and two wheelhouse pockets. You must cut your rear wheelhouse and weld the pocket into it. This give the driver an additional 3″ of space behind the wheel. A pocket is provided for your unmodified passenger seat so the seat frames line up.
There are various degrees of restoration:
The top of the line would be National Judging. These are strictly show jeeps. Most customers are not interested due to cost and that they are not good driving jeeps.
Second would be Motor Pool. In other words motor pool ready as a soldier would pick up to go on a mission. Complete running, reliable, etc.
Third would be Combat Class. This would be a motor pool vehicle but have combat type gear added to it; guns, packs, etc. Also may show “damage” from combat use- bent bumper or fender, scratched up paint, etc.
Then there are projects – jeeps not ready to run at all, needing work or complete restoration.
The axe handle goes through a loop just behind the step. The shovel point goes in a bracket above the the point where the front fender and the step meet.
Installation instructions, according to the TM 9-803 manual where this drawing is found, are the following: “Turn bit, or blade, of ax up. Insert handle in front clamp. Insert blade in sheath. Pull up clamp under ax head, and strap in place. Turn face of shovel against cowl and place in strap on cowl side. Wrap fabric strap, through handle, over grip, between grip and side of body, through loop ,over outside of grip, and buckle. NOTE: This will hold the shovel forward in the strap on the cowl side.“
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