MountainGoat
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Trying to make the square peg fit in the round hole. The engine fits length and width wise. The issue I am looking at is that this engine is a front sump and the oil pump sits to low in the pan to modify. I am unable to relocate or modify the oil pan. What I have in front of me is a factory 1988 Cherokee with the 4.0 and AW4. My AW4 just went out but the 4.0 seems to still be running very good. I have been wanting to do this diesel swap for some time now. Since the transmission crapped out on me I thought about using the diesel in the XJ. Only issue I have is that the front sump makes the engine about 28 inches from top to bottom. Thats to tall for the XJ. And I do not know if a liftkit is going to make a difference. I think the engine might just be to dam tall. I cant move the engine any further back, and moving it forward wont make a difference either. So now I am fishing for ideas on trying to see if there is anyway I can make this work without feeding a ton of money into it.
Anyone?
Anyone?