hi everyone, I found this thread at the right time
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just doing this swap in my XJ... after hours and hours reading and thinking, I decided to go for OM 603.960 from W124 mercedes 1991 (preferences 147 hp 272 Nm). Was really difficult to find it in Evrope, especialy in Czech. At the end, I bought a car, took the engine off and sold the rest... Expensive but... there we are
I let my mate to check the engine and is in perfect condition, 190.000 miles with no problem at all... inside it looks nice, just let do a engine head renew and put new gasket. So engine is almost ready to go...
I have got the AX-15 transmission ready as well, my cherokee was a 2,1 renault diesel before with weak AX5 transmission in.
So as I see I have the same problem as you guys, cause I can not buy adapter plate here and I not very sure about a clutch neither... I do not know if to use everything from mercedes (flywheel and the rest) and put the jeep clutch disk in or use everything jeep... sould be probably better to use flywheel from mercedes (because the starter)... :read:
I think that the possinbility to use a mercedes trans is rot, because we would have to work it up how to put it together with NP transfer-case, it means another crossbar unerneath and problems with driving shafts and balance...
If you would like me to mesure anything, let me know, I have everything what we need to put it together - engine, AX15 trans and original mercedes trans(automatic)....
so how we will make it works?