4.8 Swap LJ
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The good: it moved from back garage to the driveway under it’s own power.
The bad: leaks. I have trans cooler lines leaks, likely largely my fault as I didn’t want to drop the exhaust. I’ll be doing that tomorrow. A brake line is leaking, I didn’t even touch it so that’s weird, may just need tightened, hose I replace over a year ago. Gauges need work, I need to change a couple wires as I didn’t have a 100% understanding of stock wiring, no huge deal.
I totally just zip tied some things out of the way to rush a test drive. Impatient maybe, but I needed to try.
I really need to figure out some permanent solutions to mounting some things and retaining wires. Overflow bottle mount will be here tomorrow.
Hood will close but its definitely touching intake rubber tube. Maybe losing insulation would clear, maybe it’d just be fine touching a bit, but I could definitely see adding a small amount of body lift.
Once I button all this up and get some miles it will be on to adding tcase shifter and front driveshaft. I just left them out to focus on big problems first.
Home stretch! What is that airbox/MAF/intake elbow from?looks like it fits pretty well for factory parts.
I bet with some aluminum piping of the right size and more of that reinforced boost tubing(90* and straight) from the throttle body to the MAF you could angle it down away from the hood and pull it off the radiator shroud so it doesn't rub through?
I bet with some aluminum piping of the right size and more of that reinforced boost tubing(90* and straight) from the throttle body to the MAF you could angle it down away from the hood and pull it off the radiator shroud so it doesn't rub through?
It’s a half ass copy of this thread (great reference for the whole swap). Early 90’s Camaro elbow, aftermarket straight tube.
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/how-to-ls-swap-your-tj.75472/
Yes, aluminum tube may well be the ticket. Low risk to running it for now but definitely need to fix.
If you need some elbows or other tubing check out Pegasus. It's where I got mine at. https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/advcat.asp?CategoryID=SILICONEHOSE
Thank you, oddly enough it seems to be one of the more pain in the ass things to source.
I'd ordered some off Amazon but I really wanted them in Blue so I spent the money and got them from Pegasus. Well worth it and you can tell the difference in quality from the Amazon versions and the Pegasus versions. The selection offered from Pegasus IMO is pretty good.
If you run into other hard to source items let me know and if I did I'll let you know where I got my stuff from. Glad to help out where I can.
I’m ready to go back to the meme and shitposting parts of TJ ownership. @Apparition, take me back.
You’ve got this. You’ll be smoking hemis in no time
While I appreciate the sentiment, I’m not sure 4.8’s are known for their performance
While I appreciate the sentiment, I’m not sure 4.8’s are known for their performance
I know
Just happy for you... Glad it's coming together and you've almost got it done.
Plenty of time to find out it loses all oil pressure when it gets up to temp/etc….. lol
It was very painful.... And expensive too.... But what are you gunna do... All you can do is laugh.
It drives now. Ironed out some issues, found some more.
Oil pressure sensor leaks (figured it would, new one on the way, have to pull intake).
Don’t seem to get accurate coolant temp, I have two senders, aftermarket to gauge and oem to ecm. Ecm only shows 100ish deg but I am getting really hot air through vents and heads are at least 140deg on the hand feel test.
I am going to switch aftermarket sender to the one that came with gauges (didn’t mean to not run it - long story).
I only had it up to about 30mph. Seems to shift well.
Oil pressure sensor leaks (figured it would, new one on the way, have to pull intake).
Don’t seem to get accurate coolant temp, I have two senders, aftermarket to gauge and oem to ecm. Ecm only shows 100ish deg but I am getting really hot air through vents and heads are at least 140deg on the hand feel test.
I am going to switch aftermarket sender to the one that came with gauges (didn’t mean to not run it - long story).
I only had it up to about 30mph. Seems to shift well.
It's always one more thing... Or at least it always seems like that...
Damn, you have to pull the intake to get to the oil pressure sensor? But this means you DO have oil pressure? Which was a concern correct?
Don't have a IR heat gun? I've found them to be very handy with everything I've done with my swaps.
We all LOVE a long story...
COOL.... & Great News... Now to get it up to 80 MPH...
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