Long story short, I will have to be putting my old Cherokee back into daily driver service. Before I sold my DD Dodge, parked the Jeep, and left for deployment the 360 had a bad lifter tick, was smoking from the left bank exhaust, and my oil pressure had dropped a little bit. My transfer case was also having issues with staying in gear, whining, and leaking like a sieve. So as I am preparing to come home from my 7 month deployment in the Arabian Gulf I am preemptively ordering parts and preparing for a slight refresh before I transfer from the great Pacific Northwest and drive down to Lemoore, CA for the next 3 years.
As for the engine the plan of attack will be to replace the cam/lifters, cam bearings, timing set, oil pump and swap on a set of '71 401 heads I've had laying around from Ristow. The transmission will get new fluid, filter, gaskets, and cooler lines while the transfer case will be treated to a full rebuild.
The rig is in decent shape otherwise. Other things that will be checked are all other fluids, brakes, suspension, and rear axle bearings.
My parts list so far includes:
-Melling MTA-1 camshaft kit (with lifters)
-Melling timing set
-Melling freeze plugs
-Melling oil pump gear set
-King camshaft bearing set
-Edelbrock "Sure Seat" valve springs
-Dorman harmonic balancer
-Fel-Pro gasket set and intake valley pan
-Novak Dana 20 rebuild kit
Pics and write-up are to follow when I get stateside in a couple weeks. I'll sure be busy!
As for the engine the plan of attack will be to replace the cam/lifters, cam bearings, timing set, oil pump and swap on a set of '71 401 heads I've had laying around from Ristow. The transmission will get new fluid, filter, gaskets, and cooler lines while the transfer case will be treated to a full rebuild.
The rig is in decent shape otherwise. Other things that will be checked are all other fluids, brakes, suspension, and rear axle bearings.
My parts list so far includes:
-Melling MTA-1 camshaft kit (with lifters)
-Melling timing set
-Melling freeze plugs
-Melling oil pump gear set
-King camshaft bearing set
-Edelbrock "Sure Seat" valve springs
-Dorman harmonic balancer
-Fel-Pro gasket set and intake valley pan
-Novak Dana 20 rebuild kit
Pics and write-up are to follow when I get stateside in a couple weeks. I'll sure be busy!
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