Alright so we took the motor back out of my truck, threw it in here.
It took us probably about 3 hours or so to do.
It was just two guys, me and another guy, doing it.
I took off the exhaust pipes on here because they were cracked.
So I’m going to go ahead and put the ones from my newer engine on it.
I just got to go pick up a gasket for it.
As far as back along the…where it meets up with the transmission, I put two of the
bolts in; two of the heavy duty ones.
And then we tried to put the engine mounts back in, but apparently the engine mounts
are a different size than the motor they gave us.
So I had to switch the mounts on the motor with the mounts off of my old motor to hook
up with the engine mount in my jeep.
So a little bit of switching around here.
I did end up taking both of the mounts off actually to be able to get the first part
in.
And everything else…that’s about it.
One thing I did notice, though, is that I’m going to have to remove this pump as well.
It looks like it’s for like the radiator and stuff because the fan and everything on
this motor is in on different places than the other one.
But it should be pretty simple to swap out.
Everything else from here on out looks like it’s just plug and play, and hopefully it
all works.
Ok so we’re back working on the engine again.
Basically all the brackets that were on my old engine need to be switched over to this
one.
Apparently they changed, even though the block is still the same.
On the ’92 the brackets all change between the ’92 and the ’95.
Luckily all the bolts are in the same spot still though.
So I’m moving over this bracket, the other one, I got to take off this water pump and
put on the other one from the other motor.
I got all the bolts back around the bell housing.
That was a pain, especially the one on the left side where there’s some kind of cable
going through there; it’s almost impossible to get that bracket off.
What else?
I think everything else is about the same.
Once I get these brackets on and get my old exhaust in air intake manifold back and replacing
this gasket here.
I’ll also be replacing the gasket underneath the water pump.
Everything else should be the same once I get those things on.
Then it’s all just plug and play from there.
To take off a water pump on a jeep Cherokee motor, it’s underneath this pulley right
here.
So you can see the top of the engine kind of lines up.
Take off these bolts right here to get off the pulley itself.
Then here’s a motor I’ve already taken out.
Once the pulley comes out, you’ve got 4 bolts holding it in: two, three, four.
Then it just pops right off.
Usually there is a gasket that covers the inside of this.
You can just get that, I think it’s like 3 bucks at any parts store.
Just put the gasket on and then just go ahead and reseal the water pump back down on top
of that.
Just a quick little update, we got the starter in; we haven’t gotten it wired up yet.
Pretty straightforward.
The longer bolt goes on bottom; the top bolt is the shorter one.
After that we got the intake manifold in.
Getting that in was pretty simple as well.
Just make sure you have a new gasket.
My old one was pretty shot.
Scraped it out really well getting the old gasket all off of it.
After that just kind of screwed it on.
There are 4 bolts up at the top.
Then the bottom bolts, I believe there are three of them going along the bottom.
Then it’s just plug and play.
See you got those 4 right here and this one…just kind of, you know, remembering where you put
them the first time around.
I disconnected where the gas goes in for the injectors.
I disconnected it because I don’t want to work with this connection right here.
I don’t want to make it so I had to redo that whole cable.
So I just reconnected that.
It’s all pretty straightforward.
And that’s it.
Right now I’m going to make sure that these bolts are all the way on the engine mounts.
Then I’m going to do the front half of the engine.
Okay so this time around I got the power steering fluid pump.
I just got all the bolts put in place.
They’re still pretty loose so I can adjust it back and forth when I do the serpentine
belt.
I also….when the old engine blew – like threw a rod, a bunch of oil came up through
the air filter.
So I went in and cleaned all of that out – most of it anyway.
It’s really hard to get oil and stuff out of the filter that’s been sitting there
for two years.
Anyway, everything else should be doing pretty good.
Quick update, I got the alternator on.
Be careful with the bolts in the back.
Don’t tighten them down super tight.
Those bolts do come loose.
The little connectors can’t take a whole lot of torque.
Got that on yesterday.
Down there on the starter, I got that all wired up.
Got all the spark plugs tightened in, and the distributor cap, the cables, tightened
onto them.
Just clipped them in.
That’s it for now.
There we go.
It’s cranked up and ready to roll.
So finally got everything back into place.
Just going to talk about a few things.
Everything pretty much went back in the same way that it came out once I got the brackets
all back into place.
The a/c compressor – obviously I haven’t recharged this yet so the a/c’s not going
to work.
The fans and everything will be fine.
With the radiator fluid it helps if instead of just filling the coolant, you know, the
overflow and inside the radiator, if you fill up a little bit inside the engine as well.
So once you get that bottom hose on, just pour some radiator fluid down in through the
top just so it doesn’t have like air pockets and stuff inside.
Mine’s just been slowly cycling through so I have to fill that up, let it seep in,
fill it up, let it seep in.
So there are multiple ways of doing that.
The two big things as well are that the whole engine has to be grounded.
So there’s a ground wire that you got to attach.
And there’s also…on the wiring connections there are a few places where you can attach
a ground wire.
I just attach mine to the body of the jeep and that was sufficient ground for the whole
thing to work.
So like when I went to go start it the very first time, the starter would go because it
wasn’t grounded.
I was pretty excited that it was only a simple solution like that to get the whole thing
running.
And the last thing that gave me some issues was the fan.
So down inside of there you can kind of see that there are 4 bolts that hold on the fan
connector.
The bolts that come out of that are double sided.
So there’s one that screws into the engine itself, like a little pulley thing.
Then the other one that the nut attaches to to hold everything together.
So I didn’t have it attached tight enough the first time around so the fan wiggled itself
off and destroyed my serpentine belt.
But luckily the serpentine belt’s only like 25 bucks so it was pretty easy to replace.
It’s just something, you know, that can be avoided.
Other than that, had to refill the steering fluid -a little bit of that came out.
And then just make sure all the wires are in the same place and then really everything
works great.
The check engine light’s not even on.
I’m pretty stoked that it turned out as well as it did.