90 yj frame swap and build up by lovett86

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Did a few little things today in the garage, cleaned up my work bench and found the studs and nuts that go in the transfer case that bolt it to the transmission. Found a few more containers of nuts and bolts. Found my tool for priming the oil system. Didn't get a chance to pick up my mounts, will hopefully get them this week.

I have two different air cleaners for the engine, one came off the 360, one came off a 318, the one from the 318 has the valve system on it for letting in hot air from the exhaust manifold shields on a cold startup. I have a couple different exhaust manifolds and can't remember if they still have the hot air shielding on them, if they do I will see if I can make it all work.

So maybe in the next few weeks if the weather isn't bad I may have the drive train finally set in place.

2-7-2016

engine mounts

2-27-2016

Bought some metal today to hopefully work on making the trans cross member and engine frame mounts tomorrow

2-28-2016

Have the trans crossmember mocked up, no pictures because the batteries were dead in the camera. I also installed the new mounts on the engine and started figuring out what I need to do for the frame mounts

4-24-2016

here are some pics so far

When i first mocked up the transmission crossmember I was going to use the one I took off my brothers cherokee, but it was still to tall so i'm making one using the ram charger isolators I bought when i ordered the engine mounts, after looking over where I placed the engine I may cut off the mounts and move them back an inch, since i'm using the CJ front clip i'm going to need all the extra room I can get