5.2 Magnum Swap Part 22: Brakes and Wiring
Welcome to part 22 of our 5.2 magnum swap, follow along as we swap a 5.2 magnum from a 1993 ZJ into our 2004 4.0 TTB WJ. With the long Thanksgiving weekend quickly approaching we have been spending some long nights in the shop getting it ready to finally go out. Read The Rest Part […]
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 18: Starting Final Assembly
Welcome to part 18 of our 5.2 magnum swap, follow along as we swap a 5.2 Magnum from a 1993 ZJ into our 2004 4.0 TTB WJ. This week we started final assembly! With everything coming together we broke out the paint, heat shielding and bolted the motor in place for the last time. Read […]
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 13: Cutting and Rebuilding
Sometimes you need to tear things apart before you can build them. That is the case this week as we cut into the front of the Jeep to remove the stock metal bumper, making room for some custom tube work.
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 9: Leaky Plenum Gasket
We are still tearing apart the motor, this week’s goal is to fix our leaking Plenum gasket. We knew we had a bad plenum gasket after taking a peek down the throttle body and seeing a good coating of oil, but after removing the intake we got an idea of just how bad it was.
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 8: Broken and Performance Parts
While we are still moving forward with the motor swap we took a side track this week through ‘Magnum Performance Land’ to see what we could add to the build.
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 7: Cutting and (not) Fitting
Welcome to part 7 of our 5.2 magnum swap, we are shooting to be out testing for Halloween. Although we keep finding parts we want to upgrade so Halloween is a soft goal with the real goal of building it right and building it strong. Read The Rest Part 1: It’s Finally Happening Part 2: […]
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 6: The Test Fit
This is Part 6 of our 5.2 magnum swap, we had previously set a goal of September 26th to keep us motivated, but now that we have both motors pulled there are more upgrades we want to add into the overall project. We could rush and finish it all by September 26th, but we would […]
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 2: Out With the Old
This week we started out with a simple goal, remove the old 4.0, transmission and transfer case. On a typical WJ this is easy enough and the motor and transmission can be lifted out together after removing the headlights, grill, radiator and anything else in the way. The TTB WJ is a little more difficult.
Continue Reading5.2 Magnum Swap Part 1: It’s Finally Happening
It has been a long time coming and we are finally ditching the trusty i6. We have been wanting to do a v8 swap for years but it's hard to throw away a perfectly good 4.0 i6 with less than 70K. These motors are reliable and with proper maintenance can last 300,000. Our i6 has never let us down, but it is time for more power under the hood.
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