We Found an XJ with the AW4/242 xfer case: Up here in the rusty northeast we bought a parts Cherokee xj (hit hard drives side rocker, stripped out no doors/hatch) with the AW4 and 242 fulltime capable transfer case, I had taken a video of it in the snow while my son was driving it in the backyard after we had a 6" snow storm, it sort of crabwalked backwards, they must be pretty rare, we did come across only one more 242 transfer case, the rest were 241's- We enjoy your XJ/MJ video's keep them coming out!
Lol, don’t think Dex means the 5.2 and 5.9 aren’t any good, just that they don’t die easily and thus don’t sell good. Has actually scrapped some 5.2s due to having tooo many. 😳😳😳😳😳
Yep owned many 318 / 360 . And modify 340 in a charger 👍🏻 plus 383 👍🏻in 2 Dodge Hardtops 68 models owned 2 318 poly Dodge’s 66 model actually I love the 318 Poly they have one of the best exhaust notes 👍🏻 except my 1980 360 AMC FSJ with the t/ flight man that thing has a awesome exhaust note and pulls like a train . Iv owned 3 TJs 2 new plus I still use my 98 TJ also we still have 3 XJ in good order going great . Sold 3 other XJ which I wish I didn’t let go 🤔. Anyway MOPAR for life 👍🏻🇦🇺.
You need a drill chuck and a center drill for the live center. Drill a small tapered hole to center the taper in. This is why you see holes in the end of shafts. It's not like a wood lathe where you can just stab the point into the material. Warm parts will measure larger. Make sure it's cool.
Dex you truely know your Jeep parts to be able to mix match pieces the way you do 👍👍 I really enjoy this type of video showing the process that you go through . Looking forward to seeing the rest of this conversion
@@fastinradfordable it has a good 4.0 in it now. Probably around 15 total inches of lift too. I bought it in 2005. Just been playing around with it since I rolled it over on an icy road about 8-9 years ago
very cool, engineering a solution to something just because you want to and you think it can be done. ... and you have a surplus of something that is undervalued. awesome
I put an AW4 (99 XJ) in a CJ7 4.2 and kept the D300, wired in the trans controller and it worked without the tcase speed sensor Just to answer your question on whether or not it needs that sensor
We was taught in high school cut a little off the side thats going in the chuck then put it in the chuck them center drill it.not tap with a hammer because like you said the metal isnt perfect so you make it perfect.
can you make a tutorial on how to pull 1991-1996 xj engines? It’s crazy how fast you can pull them and i’d love to learn all your tricks so if mine messes up i can just pull the thing :)
Honey, I told you I saw this guy tryin this transmission conversion. I'm not going crazy!!! LOL!! And the look on your brothers face about 27 minutes in, and yet again later on. priceless.
For learning on your own, just walking away with all appendages is good. It could have been done the first day, I've mad some wild stuff on a lathe and mill
With chevy transmissions, you pull the converter back to keep from breaking the trans pump! Idk about the AW4 but id say the pump is in the front also?
Hey Dex, my name is Devin Bunn, I live 20 miles east of Atlanta. Found your channel two days ago, and have been binge watching at work and at the house for over a day now. I've been riding 4 wheelers and dirt bikes since I was 4, I'm 29 now. Me and a couple friends of mine call our group team neglection. We have a yt channel under that name, watch a couple of our videos. I think I'm the roughest of the group, but we aren't as ruff as you. I ride rail buggy, sxs and 4 wheeler on the channel. I just was gifted a yj by my grandad, and now I'm tryin to get started "mod" ing it. LoL. We would love to come up there and hit a trail with yall, I'll jump some banks in my buggy. I came to your most recent video hoping that you would see this comment, make more riding videos, you got good content, just not enough trail videos. I want more!
@@TheMainLead the last generation was also efi, but I just call the 318,340&360 family of engines la as that are almost all the same. Untill about 2000
@Haterkilla4717 the cam spacing, lifter angles and shape of the Dom in the cylinder heads along with the passage ways for the intake an exhaust, because of the lifter angle change, supposedly to help flow of air and exhaust but the old heads don't fit the magnum but the reverse will work,
I’m curious why you wouldn’t weld a plate in between the 2 halves of the bell housing? That would allow for more weld and it would make sure the 2 halves would flat and square with other
save yourself the headache of motor mounts. Incase you didnt know(You probably do) advance adapters sells the magnum motor mounts for the frame of TJ wranglers. Its like $170
In his experience, the 5.2 and 5.9 usually outlast the vehicles. Typically has a surplus of 5.2 engines and can come up with 5.9 engines. **Broken Durangos and Dodge pickups are usually cheap, with good engines. 😊😊😊
Couple of things. A running/driving 2.5 Wrangler isn’t worth $2500. Good job selling just the motor/trans/t case for that. Second, I thought this was a video I could recreate in a junk XJ I have. Bummer
Please use eye protection. And when sticking your fingers near work. If you’ve never had a shard of metal drilled out of your eye. Trust me it’s living hell on earth. Pain when you close your eyes. Move your eyeballs Or open them. There is no relief.
No questions asked man, you have the greatest automotive channel on this site.
You’re not a hack job buddy your the mad scientist very cool video! All your videos are super cool and entertaining keep up the great work.
Come out with a kit and I'll buy it from you! I got a 5.9 that's sitting around waiting to go into an xj! Love your videos!!!!
Man, let me come over there and teach ya'll how to use that lathe.
If someone is spelling teach like tech then invite him immediately
@@rustypotatos Good machinist cant spell , barely read and usually think extremely high of themselves but.......their good with numbers lol
I'm sorry 25 years of machining, my calluses must have missed the a in that word. Oversight on my part.🖕
@@rustypotatosCallouses, numb spots from scars, fat thumbs, thumb typing on a tiny phone. The struggle is real. Don’t disrespect.
@@SGTRandyB dam dude I didn’t mean any disc that is a true statement and our home slice even backed up the claim.
Fun watching you learn new stuff.
We Found an XJ with the AW4/242 xfer case: Up here in the rusty northeast we bought a parts Cherokee xj (hit hard drives side rocker, stripped out no doors/hatch) with the AW4 and 242 fulltime capable transfer case, I had taken a video of it in the snow while my son was driving it in the backyard after we had a 6" snow storm, it sort of crabwalked backwards, they must be pretty rare, we did come across only one more 242 transfer case, the rest were 241's- We enjoy your XJ/MJ video's keep them coming out!
Great job DEX nothing wrong with a 5.2 good on you and your brother having a go TJ XJ for life 🇦🇺👍🏻.
Lol, don’t think Dex means the 5.2 and 5.9 aren’t any good, just that they don’t die easily and thus don’t sell good. Has actually scrapped some 5.2s due to having tooo many. 😳😳😳😳😳
Yep owned many 318 / 360 . And modify 340 in a charger 👍🏻 plus 383 👍🏻in 2 Dodge Hardtops 68 models owned 2 318 poly Dodge’s 66 model actually I love the 318 Poly they have one of the best exhaust notes 👍🏻 except my 1980 360 AMC FSJ with the t/ flight man that thing has a awesome exhaust note and pulls like a train . Iv owned 3 TJs 2 new plus I still use my 98 TJ also we still have 3 XJ in good order going great . Sold 3 other XJ which I wish I didn’t let go 🤔. Anyway MOPAR for life 👍🏻🇦🇺.
Quite a feat of FABRICATION.
Excellent
Dex, you are amazing!!
I really enjoy your channel. That is not a hack job, that engineering. That's for sure 💯
I just happen to have these parts in the pasture .. lol I have too many projects already but i am saving this video for future reference
You need a drill chuck and a center drill for the live center. Drill a small tapered hole to center the taper in. This is why you see holes in the end of shafts. It's not like a wood lathe where you can just stab the point into the material.
Warm parts will measure larger. Make sure it's cool.
Exactly what I was going to say also..
100% badass bro 👍👍 every bit of this video just shows the skills you got.
Dex you truely know your Jeep parts to be able to mix match pieces the way you do 👍👍 I really enjoy this type of video showing the process that you go through . Looking forward to seeing the rest of this conversion
Hella good job for a hack! Really anxious for this build to be finished. I have a 24v Cummins I thought about putting in my yj 🤷🏻♂️
Everyone has those thoughts.
Have another drink until it goes away and you put a 4.0 in
@@fastinradfordable it has a good 4.0 in it now. Probably around 15 total inches of lift too. I bought it in 2005. Just been playing around with it since I rolled it over on an icy road about 8-9 years ago
Cannot imagine the anxiety as you get everything closer and closer. 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀👏👏👏👏👏
You extremely lucky to have access to the machinery. Man you could make practically anything
very cool, engineering a solution to something just because you want to and you think it can be done. ... and you have a surplus of something that is undervalued. awesome
I put an AW4 (99 XJ) in a CJ7 4.2 and kept the D300, wired in the trans controller and it worked without the tcase speed sensor
Just to answer your question on whether or not it needs that sensor
My favorite hack job!! Love the content
amazing build , keep doing the stuff people say you can,t do 👍
We was taught in high school cut a little off the side thats going in the chuck then put it in the chuck them center drill it.not tap with a hammer because like you said the metal isnt perfect so you make it perfect.
Love it dex keep it up
can you make a tutorial on how to pull 1991-1996 xj engines? It’s crazy how fast you can pull them and i’d love to learn all your tricks so if mine messes up i can just pull the thing :)
Honey, I told you I saw this guy tryin this transmission conversion. I'm not going crazy!!! LOL!! And the look on your brothers face about 27 minutes in, and yet again later on. priceless.
Awesome man! I’m excited to see how it turns out
Been waiting for this one:)
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing it. Can't wait to see it go in.
For learning on your own, just walking away with all appendages is good. It could have been done the first day, I've mad some wild stuff on a lathe and mill
Them welds look like a roll of dimes . Lol love the build
Cast is hard to weld I found 4043 works well with a little pre heat
Cant wait to see this work out. And im with justin asking if your planning to sell these bell housings?
With chevy transmissions, you pull the converter back to keep from breaking the trans pump! Idk about the AW4 but id say the pump is in the front also?
Exited to see more of this build
Hey Dex, my name is Devin Bunn, I live 20 miles east of Atlanta. Found your channel two days ago, and have been binge watching at work and at the house for over a day now. I've been riding 4 wheelers and dirt bikes since I was 4, I'm 29 now. Me and a couple friends of mine call our group team neglection. We have a yt channel under that name, watch a couple of our videos. I think I'm the roughest of the group, but we aren't as ruff as you. I ride rail buggy, sxs and 4 wheeler on the channel. I just was gifted a yj by my grandad, and now I'm tryin to get started "mod" ing it. LoL. We would love to come up there and hit a trail with yall, I'll jump some banks in my buggy. I came to your most recent video hoping that you would see this comment, make more riding videos, you got good content, just not enough trail videos. I want more!
Haters gonna hate dex keep up the good!
Thanks for the TJ content 😜
You bet!
You should get it all welded up a day then melt a bunch of aluminum down and sand cast you a one piece
Ohhh the things i wanna due with a LA318
Isn’t the la carbureted? What are you gonna do with that?
@@TheMainLead the last generation was also efi, but I just call the 318,340&360 family of engines la as that are almost all the same.
Untill about 2000
@@BurchellAtTheWharfwhat changed in 2000? I thought the magnum started in the 90s
@Haterkilla4717 the cam spacing, lifter angles and shape of the Dom in the cylinder heads along with the passage ways for the intake an exhaust, because of the lifter angle change, supposedly to help flow of air and exhaust but the old heads don't fit the magnum but the reverse will work,
I’m curious why you wouldn’t weld a plate in between the 2 halves of the bell housing? That would allow for more weld and it would make sure the 2 halves would flat and square with other
love the content did u end up losing the footage of the 5.0 stroker build when it got wet
It’s all good 👍
Trial and arrow, live and learn...
Yes! Wrangler content!
Keep going Dex love the content!
That was some serious rain when you were learning the lathe. 😳😳😳
love this build
Audio was way better also dex boy
You made me watch 55 minutes and not even find out if it worked😮💨😮💨 😂😂
save yourself the headache of motor mounts. Incase you didnt know(You probably do) advance adapters sells the magnum motor mounts for the frame of TJ wranglers. Its like $170
did you know that the XJ's AW4 bolts right onto Lexus V8? Gage Boys youtube channel did this swap on thier channel when they V-8 swapped thier XJ👍
One thing I’m curious about is how you’re able to get $300-400 for axles? I can only get $150 per in Indiana.
love the vids keep it up
You shod use the metric system….l it’s so much simpler
Nice work✌
Awesome video
Sorry bro, but those welds on the bell housing look like my mom’s C section scar.
😂
I want to see you hook up the aw4 in a zj grand cherokee behind the 4.0
Please correct me but I was always told that early '93 5.2 ZJ had an aw4. Or is it the 5.2 and ax15.
Millionaire idea
RING GEAR RING GEAR RING GEAR
Wuts the name of your brothers machine shop!!??
Crazy smart!
Curious, whats wrong with the factory V8 trans?
How close you get to that spinning part is giving me serious anxiety my dude.
If theres nobody else posting it to youtube, you are first, thats my opinion HAHAHAHA
Shoot I'm buying the 5.2 and 5.9 all day
In his experience, the 5.2 and 5.9 usually outlast the vehicles. Typically has a surplus of 5.2 engines and can come up with 5.9 engines. **Broken Durangos and Dodge pickups are usually cheap, with good engines. 😊😊😊
Dex! Put ur damn glasses on buddy 🤓
Dex what part of the USA are yall from and if I was interested in buying something from you all or having something built where or how to reach you.
Bethel Springs TN 38315. Google Dex’s Jeeps for information
do you own a junkyard where you sell jeep parts?
Start mass production lol
dex do all aw4 fit in a 96 or just 91 -96
Different years use different wiring. 91-99 can be converted some what easily to any year but 00-01 are a lot more involved
@@terranovnicek1567 99-01 uses a different speed sensor, wiring alone won't adapt it.
more wheelin
Couple of things.
A running/driving 2.5 Wrangler isn’t worth $2500. Good job selling just the motor/trans/t case for that.
Second, I thought this was a video I could recreate in a junk XJ I have.
Bummer
JUST BOUGHT THE ONE OF ONE RED HAT WITH THE DEXJEEP PATCH PLEASE SIGN IT ON THE BILL BEFORE YOU MAIL IT TO MEM HOPE YOU SEE THIS
Wife in charge of shipping. I’ll try!!
You might like grind hard plumbing company on yt?
Poor max eating metal...omg
🤙✔️👍
Please use eye protection.
And when sticking your fingers near work.
If you’ve never had a shard of metal drilled out of your eye.
Trust me it’s living hell on earth.
Pain when you close your eyes. Move your eyeballs
Or open them.
There is no relief.
TRUTH!
💯 agreed
Pls use safety glasses when using lathe 🥸