1980 Jeep CJ5

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1980 Jeep CJ5 - $9,900 - Evansville, IN - 1980 Jeep CJ-5 (VIN: 162934), White with black seats and a black soft top, it has an uncarpeted interior, and the odometer shows 8,402 miles. This CJ-5 is an example of the 2-door soft top base model version built for North America with a 4-spd. manual trans. Under the hood of the original 1980-1983 CJ-5 and CJ-6 was a GM manufactured 2.5L OHV four-cylinder Hurricane F-head gasoline engine with a Rochester Varajet II 2-barrel carb. It was known as the "Iron Duke" and the engine featured two valves per cylinder, a bore and stroke of 4 x 3 inches and an 8.2:1 compression ratio. It had rotating exhaust valves, cast-in-head intake manifolds,aluminum-alloy pistons, and with the intake valves in the head and the exhaust ones in the block in an effort to improve gas mileage. The trans is a Borg Warner / Ford SR4 close-ratio four-speed manual transmission featuring a Dana 300 2.62/1 transfer case and is 4x4 part-time (rear permanent, front engaged manually in off-road conditions). It had a a 3.54-to-1 final drive ratio. The gear ratios, from first to forth gear, were 4.07-to-1, 2.39-to-1, 1.49-to-1 and 1-to-1 with a 3.95-to-1 reverse gear ratio. The 1980 Jeep CJ-5's base model had a curb weight of 2,657 lbs. (the curb weight is how much the vehicle weighs without cargo, fluids or passengers). The 1980 CJ-5 stood 144.3 inches in length, 68.6 inches in width and 67.6 inches in height with an 83.5-inch wheelbase. The CJ-5 featured 51.5 inches of front track and 50 inches rear track with a 6.9-inch ground clearance and a 15.1-gallon fuel tank. This Jeep received a sympathetic cosmetic restoration about 6 years ago, which included the fitment of a very high quality fiberglass body. It has newer style front and rear bumpers, a swing-out rear spare tire holder as well as removable fabric doors and plastic side windows and recovered seats. It is in nice overall cosmetic condition and runs very well. It's not so nice that you wouldn't want to drive it and nice enough that you can enjoy it as-is. It is the perfect vehicle to take hunting, camping or off-roading due to the great torque curve of the inline-4. Photos will show the condition, so please ask for the entire collection. Offered at $9,900.00 / best offer. Call or text Brian @ (812) 760-5513 or www.BuxtonMotorsports.com


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[68R/T]

It was nice of them to describe in detail one of the worst engines made by gm. :dgt:

 

[69.5CUDA]

This Jeep received a sympathetic cosmetic restoration about 6 years ago, which included the fitment of a very high quality fiberglass body.

nice..so its also a kitcar...and if the body was sooooo far gone you had to find anothr one..im TERRIFIED of how bad the frame is

 

[Dr.Jass]

The frames hold up pretty well in comparison to the body, actually. There are tons of Jeep frames available around here with no bodies whatsoever, or the original falling off. Still, I agree with the fact that it's probably pretty scary overall. Rebodying qualifies as a lot more than a "sympathetic cosmetic restoration" to say the least. I'm pretty sure the lengthy description of the engine was to have you so tired by the time you got to the rebody part that it wouldn't register.

The Iron Duke wasn't really a bad engine. For many years it was the only worthwhile GM four. While the timing gears were a disaster from the moment someone said "nylon", guys were making big power with them during the first four-cylinder surge back in the mid '80s. It sure as hell isn't an F-head engine, which goes to the know-nothingness of the seller, and it was never a rocket from the factory--but it was never the disaster that its replacement (the Quad 4) became. One could argue GM should've further developed the Duke rather than beating the ground in which the Quad 4 horse had been buried by 1992 for another 10 years, praying that it would eventually not be an enormous bag of shit. The Iron Duke didn't smash valves, crack heads, or eat gaskets. Other than the nylon timing configuration, it just went about its business reliably if not in a great hurry. What didn't help its reputation was GM trying to move lard-ass cars like F & X-bodies down the road with it. Anyone who ever drove a four-banger third-generation Firebird can attest. :doh: