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Ive been rock crawling for the last 7 years now and offroading since I bought my first truck when I was 13 . Heres my toy , a 62cj5 , f134 , t90 3 speed , dana 30 , dana 44 5.38 gearing locked front and back mostly standard fair for older cj5s .
It does fine on the trail no real complaints about the old girl there . But on the road is a different ball game . The jeep would make a great scout , hunting and wood gathering utility vehicle but its a hand full to go any distance running faster than 35 mph . So whats the plan .
Im going to pull the tired 4 banger out , drop in a 4.3 chevy v6 TBI , sm420 4 speed , warn over drive , full cage , full float the rear .
What will I gain , 2 times the ponies under the hood , easy starting and no ill effects of angle with the throttle body , a low first gear of 7 to 1 , a 1.25 overdrive and better road manners .
Ive already have swapped out the steering from ross to saginaw when I swapped out the dana 27 closed nuckle front end with a dana 30 front end which gave me a smaller turning radius and better steering system along with the ability to had power steering when I do the engine swap .
Front end swap
Started the wiring for the engine swap , I have the harness built for the engine , relay blocks for the lights and starting on the switch and gauge panels so when I get around to the swap its self Ill have every thing ready .
Switch panel
Well thats a few notes on it so far.
It does fine on the trail no real complaints about the old girl there . But on the road is a different ball game . The jeep would make a great scout , hunting and wood gathering utility vehicle but its a hand full to go any distance running faster than 35 mph . So whats the plan .
Im going to pull the tired 4 banger out , drop in a 4.3 chevy v6 TBI , sm420 4 speed , warn over drive , full cage , full float the rear .
What will I gain , 2 times the ponies under the hood , easy starting and no ill effects of angle with the throttle body , a low first gear of 7 to 1 , a 1.25 overdrive and better road manners .
Ive already have swapped out the steering from ross to saginaw when I swapped out the dana 27 closed nuckle front end with a dana 30 front end which gave me a smaller turning radius and better steering system along with the ability to had power steering when I do the engine swap .
Front end swap
Started the wiring for the engine swap , I have the harness built for the engine , relay blocks for the lights and starting on the switch and gauge panels so when I get around to the swap its self Ill have every thing ready .
Switch panel
Well thats a few notes on it so far.
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