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all right so we win it we took the motor back out on my truck threw it in here took us probably about three hours or so to do there was just two guys me and another guy doing it we I took off the exhaust pipes on here because they were cracked so I'm going to go ahead and put the ones from my newer engine on it that's got to go pick up a gasket for it as far as back along the where it meets up with the transmission I suck two bolts in or connects up with the transmission I looked two of the bolts in to the heavy-duty once and then we tried to put the engine mounts back in but apparently the engine mounts are a different size on the motor that they gave us so I had to switch the mounts on the motor with the mounts off of my old motor to hook up with the engine mount in my Jeep did a switching around here and there I did end up taking them both of the mounds off actually to be able to get the first part in everything else about it one thing I did notice though is that I'm going to have to remove this pump as well looks like it's for like the radiator and stuff cuz the fan and everything on this motor is in different places than on the other one but it should be pretty simple to swap out everything else from here on out looks like it's just kind of plug and play and hopefully it all works okay so back on word in the engine again basically all the brackets that were on my old engine need to be switched over to this one apparently they changed even though the block is still the same around the 92 the the brackets all changed between the 92 and 95 luckily all the bolts are still in the same spot though so I'm moving over this bracket the other one I got to take off this the water pump and put on the other one from the other from the other motor I got all the bolts back around the bell housing that was a pain especially the one on the bottom the left side where there's like a some kind of some kind of cable going through there it's almost impossible to get that bracket off what else I think everything else is about the same once I get these brackets on and get my old exhaust and air intake manifold back on and replacing this gasket here I also be replacing the gasket underneath the with a water pump everything else should be should be the same now once I get those things on and then it's just all plug-and-play from there to take off the water pump on Jeep Cherokee motor it's underneath this pulley right here so you can see the top of the engine kind of lines up take off these these bolts right here to get off the pulley itself and then here's a motor I've already taken out once the pulley comes off and we've got four bolts holding it in two three four then it just pops right off usually there is a gasket that covers the inside of this you can just get that thing it's like three bucks or any part store put the gasket on and then just go ahead and reseal the water pump back down on top of that it's a quick little update we got the star in I haven't gotten a wired up yet pretty straightforward the longer bolt goes in bottom top the top bolt is the shorter one um after that we got the and the manifold in getting that in was pretty simple as well as make sure you have a new gasket my old one was a pretty shot scraped it out really well getting the old gasket all off of it after that just kind of screwed it on there's four bolts up at the top I'm in the bottom bolts I believe there's three of them one along the bottom and it's just plug and playing so you got those four right here and this one just kind of you know remembering where you put them the first time around I disconnected my the gas where the gas goes in for the injectors I disconnected excitement want to work with this connection right here I don't want to make it so I had to redo that whole cable so I just reconnected that it's all pretty straightforward you know right now I'm going to make sure that these bolts are all the way on for the the engine mount and then I'm got to do the front half of the engine okay so this time around I got a yeah power steering fluid pump I just follow the bolts in place they're still pretty loose so I can adjust it back and forth when I do the serpentine belt I also when the old engine blew run it through Iran a bunch of oil came up through the air filter so I went in and clean all that out most of it anyway really hard to get oil and stuff out of the filter that's been sitting there for two years anyway everything else should be should be pretty good a quick update I got the alternator on be careful with bolts in the back don't tighten them down super tight those bolts do come loose the little connectors can't take a whole lot of torque got that on yesterday down there on the starter I got that all wired up got all the spark plug is tightened in and the distributor cap the cables are tightened on to them we just click them in that's it for now there we go bring them very roll so finally got everything up in place just going to talk about a few things everything pretty much went back in the same way that it came out once I got the the brackets all back in place the AC compressor obviously I haven't recharged this yes the AC is not going to work the fans and everything will be fine with the radiator fluid it helps if instead of just filling the coolant you know the overflow and inside the radiator if you fill up a little bit inside the engine as well it's like once you get that bottom hose on just pour some radiator fluid down into the top just so it doesn't have like air pockets and stuff inside mine's just been slowly cycling through so I have to fill that up let it seep in fill it up let it seep in so there's multiple ways of doing that the two big things as well is that the the whole engine needs to be grounded so there's a ground wire that you got to attach then there's also there's a on each on the wiring connections there's a few places where you can attach a ground wire I just attached mine to the body of the of the Jeep and that was sufficient ground for the whole thing that works like when I went to go start at the very first time and the starter wouldn't go because it wasn't grounded I was pretty excited there was only a simple solution like that to get the whole thing running and the last thing that gave me some issues was the fan so down inside of there you can kind of see that there's four bolts that hold on that fan connector the bolts that come out of that are double-sided so there's one that screws into the engine itself like a little it's a little pulley thing and then the other one that the nut attaches to to hold everything together so I didn't have it attached tight enough the first time around us with a fan wiggled itself off and destroyed my serpentine belt luckily the serpentine belt something like 25 bucks so it's was pretty easy to replace just uh you know something that can be avoided other than I had to refill the steering fluid a little bit of that came out and then just make sure all the wires are in the same place and really everything works great the check engine lights not even on pretty stoked that it turned out as well as it did you