Swapping out engines
Jeff Kavanagh
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- 85' CJ7, straight 6, D300, All I know so far about he transmission is that it is a 5 speed manual. Still trying to learn what everything else is. lol
So thinking of the worst here with the engine on my Jeep that it is likely toast, I will swap it out with the V8, AMC 304 I have in the other Jeep. It was running just over a year ago but the frame is shot on this Jeep.
The muffler system is in great shape with it fortunately.
I was thinking, and maybe I am just being too jumpy about it, but I was thinking after what happened with my last engine just recently that I would send the V8 out to be rebuilt even before I install it.
I am figuring that it is 37 years old anyway. That way I would be starting off with basically a brand new engine?
Thoughts? Over kill? Would I be jumping the gun a bit? Or good idea?
The muffler system is in great shape with it fortunately.
I was thinking, and maybe I am just being too jumpy about it, but I was thinking after what happened with my last engine just recently that I would send the V8 out to be rebuilt even before I install it.
I am figuring that it is 37 years old anyway. That way I would be starting off with basically a brand new engine?
Thoughts? Over kill? Would I be jumping the gun a bit? Or good idea?