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Frame & Engine Bay Prep Motor mounts There are many companies that make new frame mounts to facilitate Hemi or LS swaps. JSS offers both weld-on style mounts and "bolt-on mounts". The former requires you to cut off your OEM 3.8L frame mounts, while the latter allows you to keep your OEM frame...

3.8L & Transmission Removal Best practices Since I'm doing my Hemi swap right after doing my D60/14B swap, my undercarriage was already fairly clean. Even still, I gave it a second blast of Simple Clean and hot pressure water before tackling the engine and trans removal. Remember, more often...

Full Parts List + Part Numbers Todd at JSS has lots of BOM sheets on his site and updates them periodically. If you're doing anything but a LX-based engine and 8HP70 swap, you should head on over to his home page and find the BOM you need. I am actually helping Liz (Todd's wife) update some of...

Foreword – Considerations & Project Planning Why Hemi? One of the first things I get asked by folks is "why a Hemi?". One of the first things Jason, the person I just sold my old 3.8L to, asked me was "why not an LS?". It's a good question that for me, has a really simple answer: integration...

Introduction & Hemi Basics If anyone has ever spent time on the Wrangler TJ Forum, you may have seen my Gen III Hemi swap info there. I figured since I'm going through the work on my JKU, that it just makes sense to do that here as well. There are plenty of YouTube videos, some done by...

His spun a bearing and the insides wanted to be on the outside…I guess this is a common type of failure on these blocks. Not nearly as common as some of the 3.6L issues or Hemi-cam-chewing, but common enough to see multiple examples of it on the web. Shockingly, it looks like Mopar still sells...

Finally got the Islander gears all broken in (mileage wise), and have been cruising down the highway a bunch… The guy that bought my 3.8L thought I was nuts for going with 5.13’s on a stock rig, but it cruises great (as great as an underpowered minivan engine can cruise).: It cruises 80 mph...

The minivan engine is no more! Guy came as promised from over 2.5 hours away to get it. I still can’t believe I had multiple people in line for a 209k mile engine… The weather today was crappy and not great for much of anything but it looks like I’ll have some opportunities this week to get...

The door is acting as a lever on the hinge, instead of "popping" the pin up, even with the block of wood incredibly close to the pin itself, it's causing it to twist the hinges at the center...

Having the same issue with mine... I've tried all the tricks, including the previously mentioned diligent use of a wood block. I notice the hinges are deforming too with zero movement. I'm at the point now where I'm looking to buy the set of stainless hinges and painting them to match...

The oil tanks are full, the heat is on, and it's 60° in the garage... might as well make the best of it! The engine is out, and I've got a guy coming Friday morning to pick it up. He just blew a rod through the side of his 3.8L, which I thought was a little shocking since I didn't think the...

Well, it looks like 2WD weather has finally kicked in! (that's a a Jerry B. Easter Egg for those who spent some time on the TJ Forum :ROFLMAO: ) I had a quiet midday and used my lunch break to get some progress made on pulling the 3.8L and trans out. I listed it on Facebook Marketplace and...

Nope - I'll be running a factory 2012+ Challenger ECM from JSS that's been programmed accordingly (I'll also be adding the 8HP70 TCM from JSS). Doing it this way lets me use about 95% of off-the-shelf OEM parts, and retain all my factory accessories (gauges, idiot lights, a/c, etc). Even things...

A PSC big bore, PSC pump, and 6.75" ram is indeed planned for... hoping to catch a few Black Friday deals coming here soon.

Rain was supposed to roll in this AM, so I decided to take a late night run to inspect and pick up that crate motor. The motor was exactly as described, and aside from an issue with the sellers cherry picker not wanting to work (and a very smashed thumbnail!), it was a relatively painless...

Kinda reminds me of my 93 RC that I built just before we moved back east (which I regret selling... I decided to take my LJ back east on the move. I should have taken the RC and sold the LJ off!). With the 408 stroker, a nicely built 46RE, 4.88's, a TrueTrac rear, and about ~485hp/575tq on...

I’m leaning that way for sure and I’m the same - I’ve been a horsepower junkie since high school when I built and swapped my first big block (a 440 with all the goodies in my RamCharger). Sounds like we’d be fairly close power wise - what scares you about the power level? I’ve had a few...

Nothing “power adding” per se, but he is including a set of MP SRT Manifolds, a MP rear sump, and a MP Clutch + Flywheel set. I think the power rating of these motors is based on the SRT manifolds, which I won’t use as I’ll be using the JSS headers. The headers should flow a tad better than...

Yeah, I think I’m gonna skip the headache and go straight to a crate engine myself… There’s a guy about 2 hours away with a new 345 Mopar Crate Hemi (with some Mopar Performance extras!) thst he bought for his Duster project that never came to fruition. I’m headed down to him on Friday AM...

I think I saw this on one of the FB pages... Given the likely damage, you might be able to simply replace the damaged part. That said, given the hard hit, lift, and likely the age of your rig, it would make sense to simply replace all your steering components. Do you know if you have OEM...