What would it take to make my jeep a diesel. I have a motor lined up but what does it take to slap that baby in

 

well what is the motor? 4bt?

 

It takes alot of work.

 

My buddy who is by no means a mechanic swapped a 4bt into his tj in the street over a few weeks. He DDs it now. Do it.

 

Tjs have a frame. The torque of a diesel would put a lot of stress on a unibody so hes going to have to do more work than just putting it in a tj.

 

Frame stiffeners.

 

I had some dude bring a ZJ in that had the 4bt, he had an issue with firewall clearance and he had to install a cowl induction hood to clear the innercooler tubes. looked like a lot of work but it was pretty cool.

 

Very very stiff front springs...or even leafs in the front. Either way good luck

 

A 4bt doesnt weigh much more than a 4.0...

 

Go big or go home, go ahead and throw in a cummins 400..

 

1985 Mercedes 300D, turbo diesel, similar HP/TQ as a standard jeep motor, bolts to jeep 5-speed tranny.

NOT rediculously heavy.

Search turbo diesel jeep on youtube. There is a guy with a video about 1.13 long where he starts motor and lets it idle while he talks about the swap a little bit.

Feeling nice, here is one of the videos:
This is my next year project.

Engine is OM617.

 

Mmmm diesel swap. My wife will kill me.if I do another.

 

Whats the point of all the work if its got the same HP and TQ figures??

 

I wasn't discouraging you at all imo it'd be bad *** I was just mentioning the usual unibody problems lol.
Do you have a good 4bt yet?

 

What's the purpose? Better gas mileage, cheap gas if you make your own biodiesel, or in my case, I will run two gas tanks and run diesel in one and straight filtered grease in the other. Used grease is free!!!!

Besides It just sounds cool!! Good enough reason for
Me!!

To be unique from the rest of the crowd.