If you have any questions on the LS swap, PM me. Thats the world I live in everyday.

 

So just curious where are you planning to move to?

 

I have more questions that I wish to bother you with man lol but I may take you up on it

Possibly new jersey but unsure yet

 

Im planning on updating this thread today!

 

Great thread!

 

hey thanks! i appreciate it

 

Still cannot figure out how to upload HEIC photos from my new iphone. Any advice would be appreciated

 

I figured it out!

So lets start with the LS build:

Got an LS3 intake manifold with fuel rail off facebook


Got a Holley Sniper EFI for christmas! Thanks mom


Picked up some coil packs off amazon


Picked up some MSD wires for the coil packs


And also grabbed a $35 ARB engine pulley bolt


Which required more torque that I could measure so I picked up a new torque wrench


et voila!



Then picked up some stands for the move and picked up a harbor freight engine hoist to get it up onto the uhaul

 

Next, lets update everything else:

Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, my $100 amazon header **** the bed. The O2 bung broke off




So I went ahead and picked up a new one from Banks!






Definitely superior build quality. I would hope so with a $500 difference


Came with a gasket and hardware



And for 7 hours I removed the old one and installed the new one. Easier the second time around, but still not easy





Removed the windshield and front window tint



Addressed the pinion angle with a 4 degree shim. This is before the shim. Seems I dont have an after picture, but its better




Replaced my driver front bearing with another timken



And somehow was standing at the jeep with the hood open when it tried to catch fire





Messaged XJWonders whose swap this was and he was unsure why it had happened, but recommended an upgrade! I let the jeep sit in the driveway away from the house for about a week after this lol




Tackled the passenger side ball joints with some new Yukons


Also attempted and failed to remove the herculiner on my lower half. That **** is on there




And for now, thats about it! Jeep goes to the shop on April 20th to see if a professional can get rid of this terrible death wobble Ive been having. Everyone keep your fingers crossed!

With all the COVID-19 stuff going on, funds for the jeep have been put on way back burner. Unfortunately the LS will sit and all major upgrades will stop until I can get a job and some serious savings

 

Been a while, so lets update:

I cut my losses and sold my LS build. It was more than I could handle money and knowledge wise, and like some others said in this thread, it was more of a headache than I anticipated going into it. Lots of folks sell the LS swap as a straight forward and potentially cheap modification. And I think it can be straightforward, but to make it cheap, you need to literally do no updating to the engine and do nothing to make it nice, which is not my MO. Plus we moved to northern Montana and I just wanted a clean start.




Got some new shoes. The Wildpeak AT3s came widely recommended and I have definitely enjoyed them so far



Towed it from New Jersey all the way to Northern Montana



Experienced a few hijinks on the way there. Google maps took us in a weird direction up a steep hill in the middle of north dakota. Uhaul started to get stuck so we needed to deploy the jeep to save the trailer. Uhaul made it up the hill without the jeep attached, and the jeep made light work of pulling the trailer up the snowy incline.

 

The remainder of the trip proved to be troublesome with whiteout conditions. Ended up ditching the trailer outside of the badlands in north dakota and caravanning the uahul and jeep the rest of the 500+ miles with no problem




Taken it to get some Christmas trees and its been doing great out here in Montana




And thats about where the updates stop. Haven't had made the time to do anything, until I realized I wasn't doing one of my favorite hobbies, so now I'm going to start to pick things back up. Both out of desire and necessity lol

It was -22F a couple days ago, and I decided to start the jeep just to see if it would, and it did!
And then the coolant came lol



This is also around the time I realized my hood latch is frozen lol So the temperature is going to bump up in a couple days (to 20F) so hopefully can pop the hood and figure out what I'm going to need to fix. Luckily we have a really nice hobby shop on base here that I can get all this work on, and its only a few minutes away

 

One thing that I have not updated the build thread on is my new DirtBound Rock Bruiser bumper. It half way went on well lol







Then things stopped fitting very well









Gave DirtBound a call and they didnt really have a good answer. Sent me $100 for my troubles and sent me on my way. Recently turned toward instagram to ask for help, and a few nice folks said that it would lay flat once I tightened everything down, so I'm going to try it again. Worst case scenario I drill holes in my rear quarter panel for nothing. Best case, it works.

 

That looks like a long way off from where you want to be... It'll be interesting to see if it pulls the quarter panel straight or just pull through the holes...I wonder if some washers in the rear bumper holes will help give some alignment ??
Anyhow, you made a big move weather wise going out there !!! Good luck at the new location...

 

Man don't put that evil on me lol

And thanks! Bout time I checked on the cooling system, so maybe this is a good thing lol

 

I just started looking at this thread during lunch... Ended up missing a meeting haha.

Very nice.