Diesel Bombers - just another om617 in a yj

so i figured I would do a build thread because each of the build threads that i read through when planning this conversion offered some different piece of advice that has been helpful to me and i hope that I can help someone else out.

So heres what's going on:

My wife's 93 YJ, which is now mostly an offroad toy, but also the spare car if one of our others die, has been a great rig so far. It has the 4.0 HO, ax-15, np231, dana 44 front w/ detroit, GM 14 bolt rear w/ govlock, Toyo MT 38x14.5x16s.

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It's been great but, sadly the head gasket popped on us recently and I figured it was time for a change. I put a turbo diesel in my samurai and i love it so i figured i would us the head gasket as an excuse to put one in her jeep as well.

I also decided this was a good time to switch things up in the drivetrain. I picked this up for $100

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mostly for this:

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I'll be swapping the AX-15 input shaft into the Toyota r150 and then putting a single toyota transfercase with trail creeper 4.7 gears in it. I thought about dual cases, but her rear driveline is already short and i think that 4.7's should be fine for her.

I picked up this very well maintained 1980 300SD for $500 and drove it home

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First things first

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then on to more important things
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The 300SD's current state
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next is to make a little bit more room

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called in a buddy for some help

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tore off the intake and exhaust manifolds, the turbo and the valve cover to do some cleanup and adjustments.

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about as clean as its going to get

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painted it with some flat black header paint, looks much better than rust colored

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EGR delete
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valves adjusted, everything painted and cleaned up (except for my garage floor)

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Thats about where i'm at right now, im waiting on trying to track down a used trail gear v6 adapter for my tcase.