How to determine transmission year?

[MJEEPMAN]

I am currently build up a 86 manche and its drivetrain now is a 2.5l tbi engine with the ax4 transy. I have a new 2.5 pfi engine built for high compression to get more horseys. I also have a ax5 I am going to attempt to rebuild myself... FIRST MANUAL transy rebuild. lol My problem comes in because I don't know what year the doner jeep was that I strip my transy out of. I know it was a pre 90 jeep. I am not sure if knowing that will help cause it was a offroading jeep and I don't know if it was original. If some one could tell me where to find the man date on the transy that would prob be a good help. Thanks , Andrew

[87manche]

not sure about your AX-5, but my AX-15 has a stamp on the bottom of it right in the bellhousing. It has a serial number of sorts and in the serial number is the last two digits of the year.

[MJEEPMAN]

I'll go looked but is it on the bell housing or the transy. Cause my bell housing is from the old transy I pulled out with the new built 2.5 (transy was only 2wd) and I swaped the bell housing from my doner ax5 jeep which was a v-6 4x4 cherokee. I just swaped the two bell housings over to bolt it up to my 2.5.