Mercedes Powered Cherokee

[gmentavlos]

Trying to get a lot of little things done this week. I painted all three wiper arms and got them back on the jeep. Removed bumpers. Drilled holes for new winch (Apparently my winch does not have the standard mount locations). Also made a bracket to mount my CB antenna to my rear bumper. I dropped bumpers to Powder Coater early this morning. The d-ring pictured will be the new color for the bumpers.

 

[gmentavlos]

Bumpers at powder coater,
Rear bumper complete...

 

[gmentavlos]

Pressure washed carpet one more time. Carpets look pretty good overall.

 

[gmentavlos]

I'm going to back track a bit here. This is a pic of the donor car I bought several years ago. The car was very clean. It did have a bad transmission and the dash was cracked from the son pretty bad. I bought it for 1250.00 and was able to drive it home. I pulled everything under the hood I needed and then I parted the rest of the car out. This was much cheaper for me than trying to buy a motor on ebay plus I was able to get everything under the hood I needed as well.

I will have some more updates soon just been busy and haven't had time to take some pics

 

[gmentavlos]

om617 Turbo Diesel

 

[billybob535]

Glad to someone else doing a Mercedes diesel swap. I am going to be swapping a little larger Mercedes diesel into a much larger Cherokee (OM606 into an 83 4 door Cherokee). Waiting for the weather to improve.

Good luck.

 

[gmentavlos]

Finished installing JCR Off Road roof rack with Pro Comp lights. Gave the jeep a much needed bath. The jeep has not seen the outside in a long time... Pressure washed the underside in preparation for under-coating it. Also got my gas tank back from powder coater. Lastly- I swapped out my 4.56 gears for 4.88s. I have ben doing some research and I think the 4.88s are the better choice.

 

[gmentavlos]

A little mock up for my 8.25 rear. I am going with a T N T gusset. Also pulled all the rubber fuel lines. They are dry rotted so I'm going to replace them all. I am also going to bypass the stock fuel filter. There is one mounted on the motor so I won't need the jeep one. I will also degrease the under carriage for the 3rd time this week. Still got a lot of grime and grease to remove before I undercoat everything.

 

[Atla]

I think I just clicked like on 5 or 6 of your posts. I love a nice clean white XJ.

Good looking build!