engine swapping help

[toby78]

Can someone please help. I am in the process of putting a 350 chev in my 1978 CJ7 and I am looking to put a Transmission out of a toyota land cruiser, the question is would that end up being too long and end up making my pinion angle too much.

 

[3QuarterTon CJ]

Why not run a Chevy Transmission ?? You won't need any expensive adapters, and I'm sure there is a Chev Transmission that will match your crawl ratio of the Yota box.

 

[csuengr]

Unless you are dead set on the Yota stuff, it would be easier and cheaper to use Chevy. So what year is the Yota stuff from?

 

[toby78]

I appreciate the replies first of all. And the reason I didn't plan on going with the chevy tranny is because I was told that it was too long. I am new at this but looking forward to learning all I can, so all info is appreciated.

 

[JR74CJ5]

Chevrolet & GM Engine Conversions into the 1976-1979 Jeep CJ

Very good info there man.

Let us know if you have any more questions.



~ JR

 

[CustomCJ7]

A Chevy tranny is one of the most common transmissions to put it. Im doing the exact swap as you except im using a TH350K. So far, no problems.

 

[toby78]

Ok I will have to look for a manual chevy Transmission with Transfer Case , this sounds like the easiest way to go. I really had no set plan yet but the info i got here helped me a lot already so thank you everybody.

 

[JR74CJ5]

Ok I will have to look for a manual chevy Transmission with Transfer Case , this sounds like the easiest way to go. I really had no set plan yet but the info i got here helped me a lot already so thank you everybody.

Make sure and read up on that link, and also keep in mind the t case will need to be married to the tranny, and have a passenger side drop for the front drive shaft / line.

 

[toby78]

I was looking at my Transmission and it is a T-18 1B and I am not sure yet but I think this might be a rare Transmission so I dont know if this is the best way to go. I will have to check more on it but things are going good so far on my swap just trying to figure out the tranny options.