Just came across your channel by accident. As soon as I heard you mention Rambler I was interested. I have a 1967 ( I think) Australian assembled Rambler American 440. Not a common car nowadays in OZ. I always thought of buying a damaged Jeep and swapping either a V8 or 6 cylinder engine. I will be following your channel to see how you get it done.
The project has been on hold for far too long while I work on customer cars instead of my own, but the swap (physically) is pretty easy - it's a direct bolt-in! The Rambler motor mounts and engine brackets match up to the Jeep engine - they never changed any of the mounting bosses significantly in the entire production run. If I recall, two of the three bolt holes lined up perfectly, and only one was different, but there was a cast mounting boss that still lined up. At any rate, using the Rambler mounts and brackets had the engine sitting in the bay PERFECTLY, and the 2wd Jeep transmission will just need a simple custom-fabbed crossmember. There are plenty of other small things, but getting it physically in the car is no harder than R&Ring the original engine.
Just found your channel I love it
Glad you enjoy it! Hoping to be able to bring content more regularly in the near future!
Just came across your channel by accident. As soon as I heard you mention Rambler I was interested. I have a 1967 ( I think)
Australian assembled Rambler American 440. Not a common car nowadays in OZ.
I always thought of buying a damaged Jeep and swapping either a V8 or 6 cylinder engine. I will be following your channel to see how you get it done.
The project has been on hold for far too long while I work on customer cars instead of my own, but the swap (physically) is pretty easy - it's a direct bolt-in! The Rambler motor mounts and engine brackets match up to the Jeep engine - they never changed any of the mounting bosses significantly in the entire production run. If I recall, two of the three bolt holes lined up perfectly, and only one was different, but there was a cast mounting boss that still lined up. At any rate, using the Rambler mounts and brackets had the engine sitting in the bay PERFECTLY, and the 2wd Jeep transmission will just need a simple custom-fabbed crossmember. There are plenty of other small things, but getting it physically in the car is no harder than R&Ring the original engine.
Much shiny!
Whare does the Flux capacitor go?