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Jeep Cherokee xj v8 swap startup

First startup of a 1986 Jeep Cherokee XJ. GM 305 v8 engine swap out of a '88 Silverado. TH 700R4 tranny with a NP231transfer. 3'' Lift ...

Friday Morning

to take Friday off and flush our coolant systems in the XJ's. I woke up and came downstairs to find him fixing the hose... ... survivorman ...

kids in the mudd.com wheeling

helpless xj with busted radiator is drug through the mud by a crazy guy with a heavy right foot. hahahaha ... 4x4 xj mud jeep ...

jaguar xj chevy 350

corvette tranny with shift kit, corvette headers, radiator

Jeep CJ Steering Column Swap

I grabbed a tilt column from a 92′, it will bolt to the upper column mount bracket, the turn wiring is the same as many 70’s and up CJ’s so that may be a plug and play or at least it is easy to rewire. You can grab the control module and use the intermittent wiper on the column and if you find one with cruse control it is a great way to kick on a radiator mister or….what the hell a nos switch! Anyway here is the changes that are needed, cut off the lower mounting flange on the 92 column, cut 1″ off the bottom of the shaft and grind a new groove for the steering joint bolt. If your column has ignition in the column the plugs should be the same depending on the years, however I found that my brake pedal hit my IG switch, easy fix is to shim the column down at the fire wall about 1/8″ or so. Oh you can also move the dimmer switch to the one in the column as well.

1) Old column ignition switch.

2. New column ignition  switch, both are a GM base so they should be interchangeable. A quick check in a wiring diagram will tell you.

9. I just used a grinder to make the cut, easy could have done all this with a hacksaw and a Dremel. Now in photo #8 you can see the grind marks on the column tube, this the place the mounting flange was. I cheated here because I had my alternator bracket fabricator cut this with a plasma cutter. I am sure it could be done with hand tools or home power tools but on the other hand I would not think a machine shop would charge that much for this to be done. Now it’s a different ignition switch but only because it is a tilt, for the most part Jeep uses a GM column with one of two ignition switches depending on if it is a tilt or not. The plugs for the most part are universal. So if you go non-tilt to newer non-tilt you may just be a plug and play deal. However that negates the real advantage of this swap, the tilt column. Older switches have less ignition lines (ignition 1, ignition 2 and so on), if you add a lot of accessories you can power them off the additional ignition wire providing you get the wiring plug with the column, just be sure to check the wiring diagram to verify colors.

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