Bonus for me today, sold and collected $125 for the compressor head from the spare engine I bought a couple of months ago.
Here is a pic of an almost finished engine mount. Hopefully have both finished tonight.
I am not super happy with the mounts proximity to the upper control arm. I have about 3" clearance I just could not see a good way to get over or around the control arm. The freakin dipstick casued me a lot of grief

 

woo hoo, FINALLY the engine is sitting on the mounts and the mounts are bearing full weight. I did not drill for or finish mount the rubber engine mounts. But that is easy enough, I still need to measure and center the engine a bit. I raised the engine as much as I could. I see a minor oil pan modification in my near future. I have not measured yet, but the oil pan is pretty close to the axle, about the same distance as the upper control arms are from the bottoms of the mounts, but I don't know how I can fix the mounts to gain more height over the upper control arms.
In the morning I will get it to bouncing and see what it looks like for clearance

 

bounce test failed! the bottom fo the mounts is too close to upper control arms, They never touched, but I think they are too close. The oil pan did touch, but I saw that coming about a week ago as soon as I stabbed the engine.
back to the drawing board

 

There is a lot of movement during suspension compression. My mounts had to go way up to clear the driveline and UCAs.

My mounts are really ugly, but I plan on redoing them soon. The aluminum spacers are a motormount lift that I just left in place.

 

Hi Red thanks for the pic. That is the Wrangler correct?

 

Yep

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Great build thread DieselXJ. I am heavily contemplating a v2203 in my '98 Cherokee 4wd with the AW4, and this is the closest thing to it. Man that engine looks mighty small in the bay!

Keep up the good work, excited to see how it turns out.

 

well they are not much to look at, ( I ran out of welding gas on one of the welds) but the engine is sitting on its own again on the new mounts. The mounts are very much out of the way of the upper control arms. There is approx. a 9.5" rise on the engine side of the mounts. I have the engine at the finished height, I think I might order some of the little Mercedes engine shocks. Now I can start on the oil pan mods, I have a little under 5" clearance from the block to the axle.
It was interesting that I got 1/4" more height on the drivers side than the passenger side. Both mounts are almost identical in height on both the frame and engine side. I will try and find out why tomorrow, I am thinking it is somewhere in the bell housing area. It could be as simple as a wiring bundle.
More room up front than I know what to do with. Also interesting to look at the difference in the axle placement from Red's wrangler, to the xj. I would have thought the axle would be a little closer to the same distance from the firewall. I will also be starting on the throttle linkage. I am looking for some little throttle linkage ball joints

 

For Small Ball Joints go to a Hobby Shop that sells R/C Stuff. Especially for 1/4 Scale or Larger Scale Models.

This is just a for instance. http://www.levelxms.com/steinjager-1...FZRr7AodJnYAMw They are 10/32 and Ultimate Static Load Rating of 900 lbs.

 

Yeah, Rangmar was just marveling at that while looking at it last night


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