door locks

[Warhammer]

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.

[brute4c]

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.

[Warhammer]

Thanks
I gotta say brute4c, youre a wealth of knowledge !

Any specific years? Late 70's wagoneers? or does it have to be older?

[brute4c]

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.

[Warhammer]

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

[brute4c]

No sweat...we are all here to learn!

[Binford]

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.

[brute4c]

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.

[rboltz]

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.

[Freakshow]

Does anyone know what lock mechanism is best? Out of what year FSJ?