Jeff in VA
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- Location
- Richmond, VA
After I SOA’d my MJ and went to 33’s and 4.56’s, the tired old 2.5L just wasn’t cutting it any more, so I decided to swap in a 4.0. Altogether, I spent about a good week of work on it, spread out over the course of a couple months of weekends between work and a few late nights after work. I don’t have a garage at my house so I ended up renting a 20X30 storage facility about a mile away from my house that worked out very well. I began preparing for the swap some time ago gathering parts and finally got going mid-August. Got it running on Saturday and drove it around a bit yesterday and the difference is amazing. Here’s somewhat of a recap with a bunch of pics of what all I had to do.
Got the facility, got the MJ in and began to tear down (most of this is in a thread I have going in the SEC now…..I wanted to get it running before posting it on the main forum):
pulled the underhood wiring harness (left the interior harness/fuseblock intact…..there was some debate over having to swap it out as well, but you don’t need to):
got a pile of leftover 2.5 parts at this point:
Got the facility, got the MJ in and began to tear down (most of this is in a thread I have going in the SEC now…..I wanted to get it running before posting it on the main forum):
pulled the underhood wiring harness (left the interior harness/fuseblock intact…..there was some debate over having to swap it out as well, but you don’t need to):
got a pile of leftover 2.5 parts at this point: