I am all over doing this too.. anyone done it?

 

And you want to go thru this expense because? The head alone will have to be drilled and threaded for coil pac to be harnessed there, or you could just buy a later head.Either way it's going to take some work and money to switch over?

 

There is a lot to be said for coil packs and good reasons (in my humble opinion) why most auto makers have gone to them. I totally support anyone's choice not to do this..but its my choice and I fancy it. After all if i stop doing thing to my jeep because they were expensive and hard I'd have noting left to do :thumbsup:.

Thanks
Dave

 

Honestly I was told that you can take a newer motor and convert it back to a distributor style, I think you should just go to the place that sales the two motors and look at them, you probably just need the brain, and a couple plugs, and some good old beer.....

 

There ya go... problem solved?:laugh:

 

will need new harness and ECU to start with, easiest thing would prob get the newer motor/harness/ECU from junkyard and do a swap, then sell old motor/harness/ECU

 

i agree, call up some junkyards and see what they got. you'd be better off swaping out whole motor and ecu then buying parts and trying to get it to work. Swapping out the 4.0 motors in these jeeps isnt that hard. Basic hand tools and an engine puller you can pull it out and put it back in and under a day taking your time.

 

I'd give it a weekend to do it right?

 

This engine swap would be harder than it seems. Different data bus for the instrument cluster means it wouldn't work with the new ECU. Don't know if it alone being swapped is enough or if there are harness changes on the interior as well.

Probably fuel issues as well because of return/non-return differences.

So I don't know if an engine swap is the answer...