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    nice re-use of your torque converter holder as your battery tie down! simple and easy and free! the color of the truck is awesome!!!!!
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    chevy shackles.... same length....cheap... couldnt tell you what year or anything... have put them on 2 of ours... maybe somebody else can remember.
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    It's been a while...sorry. I'll try to update this weekend. Hopefully it will move outta the garage under its own power.
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    that's about how much I'll have in my Cummins swap, if not more... But it'll be worth it!
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    thanks man. and power steering belt is fine. all works good and no problems. we finally got the motor to idle a lot better and run smoother. we had to turn the fuel screw on the injection pump up. it wasnt set right to ever run or whatever since it was a show motor or wasnt ever in anything. now we have waaaay less white smoke and a haze of black smoke. still doesnt run 100% right but its getting there. weve got higher rpms, 1650, still not what we should be at. and still takes a bit to get up to temp. gonna take a set of injectors to the diesel shop today and have them tested. bought my battery too, an Autocraft AGM H8. pretty massive battery. and going to buy 10 feet of both cables for it today. and i forgot to say earlier, we ripped ALL the wiring out and bought a summit complete wiring harness kit and my dad has been doing all the wiring in the truck. just a few more wires to hook up; radio, windows, locks, headlights, dome lights, fans. my dads doing all the wiring, id be lost with all of it even though its all marked and has a booklet with it. gonna be working on cutting out all the rust in the frame and fixing it this week so we can start installing the lift next week or weekend! :driving:
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    Started it up yesterday for the first time in the truck! Starts right up, no leaks. Butttt .... Won't get above 1100 rpms. Runs rough. Blows white smoke. We swapped injectors out of the other motor I have and no difference really. Were gonna make sure it's not outta time in the morning and go from there. If it's in time I guess were gonna try to make our own injector tester and go from there. It purrs like a kitten now tho, just at low rpms. And also, it won't get up to temp. It's only gotten to 160* after running about 30 min. We've put an hour total on it since yesterday...
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    I'd like to eventually mount 6" leds diagonally in the original headlight holes... Something different. Already have a set of these https://www.translectricinc.com/catalog/partdetail.aspx?partno=2000-0006 on my Cherokee and love them. Drive with them as my headlights. Very bright and good angle as flood lights. About indestructible! And have the 130 watt kc 4x6 pencil beams on the roll bar on my truck. But barely use them cuz my headlights are way brighter than them! (delta housings, putco wiring harness and narva 130 watt motorcycle bulbs)
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    3 driveable + 2 just bodies = 5 and 5 Cherokees, a j10 and a cj5... Not enough, ever!
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    5 speed. Running complete basic gauges even on the diesel side of it since it's not a built motor or anything more than the stock jeep trans and everything else can handle. No fuel pressure gauge or EGT gauge. Talked to many people and I've got all I'll ever need.
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    Cool. Thanks guys. That's what I needed to see. Because they only showed the unmounted pods and they looked nothing like the shape of the a pillar trim. Trying to track down everything for gauges for my Cummins swap. Gonna have boost and I don't know what else yet in the pods. I'm redoing the whole gauge cluster with ISSPRO EV1 gauges. Boost, volts, water temp., oil pressure, gas level, and speedo. Gonna run a Tiny Tach in a "fake" tach face plate or something. Gauges will be mounted in the stock cluster surround with a new metal face plate that way the whole thing bolts in and sits just like stock.
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    Does anybody have the a pillar gauge pod in their truck? I've found some from a couple different places abd they all say they fit "all" years (88-00, 84-98, 86-99) but I know the shape of the pre 96 trim is different from the post 96. So I was just wondering if anybody has had any experience with any of it.
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    back side power steering bracket. were gonna run the radiator hose from the water pump down and through the power steering brackets. (will have metal pipe between the 2 brackets so we can make our own house go where we need it. started working on turbo piping this week. made a plate to block off where it went originally, into the top of the maifold and over the top of the motor. made a new plate with a 2" hole to replace the solid plate on the back side of the manifold. new plate with the original piping cut down to hug the back of the motor. it will be cut down right where it 45s downwards and a silicon 45 will be put in there facing more level toward the turbo in the front got my block heater installed. i cut a 1/4" plate with a 1" hole in it and welded a pipe union fitting cut in half onto it. fits perfectly.
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    found a power steering pump and got it mounted! pump came off of a late 80s dodge 150 pick up or whatever they were back then. brackets for power steering and water pump pulley powdercoated. mounted fuel filter too, right behind power steering. its about 4 inches lower and more to the drivers side than it was originally. ordered a couple silicon 90*s and a 45* for my turbo/intake piping to run behind the motor. we decided not to run an intercooler. didnt really have room and would be more difficult than it was worth we thought. will be ordering all my lines and fittings for my fuel filter to pump, turbo oil lines and alternator oil lines tonight. exhaust is scheduled for a month from now so ive got a "deadline" now to get it set in the truck and running. almost there!!!!! still have speedo, throttle cable, gauges, lift, and a couple other little things to do.
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    I've got one in pretty rough shape. It's blue I think. The "cable/connecting rod" that makes both sides of the seat slide at once is broke. It's still in the truck so I don't know how bad it is. Central Indiana. $30 you pull o.b.o. you pick up. Have other parts too....
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    I don't consider a work truck or hauler a play toy. Your setup would be sweet to do. But that's what we got our J10 for now. There's so many different setups I wanna do with a Comanche!!
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    Basically...I'm doing mine as a daily driver. I think for a play toy, a 3.3 or 3.9 Cummins should go in something a little bigger or different ...
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    A brand new "long block" 3.3 on eBay runs like $3000-5000 then finding parts for it will be expensive! Theres sometimes some on craigslist used for $1500-3000 for a complete running engine. they're not as common as 4bsI found mine on craigslist a couple hours away, 2 engines (one complete the other 80% there), one turbo'd the other not, for $4400. If you don't know anything about diesels or never done any motor swaps or fab work, this probably isn't the way to go. It's not easy or cheap. I'll have about a year and $8000 in this swap... 4b might be cheaper since it's more common but the fab work is gonna be about the same if not harder.
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    I didn't have to do any firewall mods. Mine is a 3.3 not at 3.9 (4b). Mine is way smaller...a 4b is like 6" taller and wider and longer. I think it would be a lot harder than what I'm doing. But it's been done. Might be a build on here of it.
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    If you have any questions I'll try to answer them the best I can from our experiences with this...
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    The motor is sitting in the truck on motor mounts unassisted!! I will hopefully have pictures up tonight or soon.
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    I've looked into it but they are heavier springs anyways. I think there's only one other set that's heavier that I could go with.
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    I don't have any way to weigh it but from what I've read, the Cummins weighs about 140-180 pounds more. Not too bad. The Cummins being shorter is easier to handle and move around though I think.
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