BajaCrawler

I have a 1994 2dr Cherokee that has been my crawler for months and is now broke in many place at one time making very unusable so i got a 86 2dr for free and was gonna use it to make half doors prerunner fenders and anything else i can think of. Whats good to make outa one jeep to put on other? and some one remind me how to add pics i forgot how.
Here's the 86 parts one

and here is my crawler.

BajaCrawler

Can anyone tell me if a 6bt cummins is even a possibility to put in a XJ 2dr with and reinforced frame and exo of course.

96_xj

i dont know about the 6bt but here is a write up on the 4bt with NV4500 tranny and dana 300

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...DJvMswPHq_z_Cg

halmotors

The 6Bt is roughly a 34" cube, taking into account all the hoses, piping, and other external nonsense, and with the fan off. While it could be done, you'd really have to shoehorn and massage it into that engine bay.

BajaCrawler

yeah thats what I figured. I just would rather not have to say I drive a 4 banger. I did some rough measuring with my RV engine cause it has one. the only prob I found is that a 6bt weighs 3 times more than a 4.0

96_xj

f-150 coils would probably solve that issue, or atleast help it

BajaCrawler

oh definitely using truck springs from either a f150 of the ones out of a dodge 1500 cause i may use a dodge d44 cause they are already coil. But one thing is how much frame modifying do I need to do and how should I strengthen it properly? I mean they put the 6bt in YJ's but they have full frame.

BajaCrawler

I've decided a different path on combining my cherokee with my 85 Grand Wagoneer axles and possibly use frame on that as a base for my 6bt cummins idea for my XJ.

BajaCrawler

anyone done a full frame mod to their XJ?