Re: [Amc-list] Re; EFI install on [anything modest] a bit of a Rant.

[Kelly Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxx>]

I got lucky. A cow orker rolled his Cherokee about the same time my 258 
blowed up. He had a lot of special parts and mods on his, so he bought 
another Cherokee primarily for the body and swapped all of his parts 
over, leaving a good engine sitting on the ground. I got the motor and 
all the other parts I needed for 400 bux, and didn't even have to store 
the parts car at my house, it just sat in his yard 'til I was done and 
he'd sold all the other parts off of it he could...

Kelly

Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My swap was under $1,000. Way under.
> I bought a complete running 80,000 Wrangler 4.0L for $275 on ebay. Harness,engine, all accesories.
> While I mixed and matched parts and traded that particular engine off it was complete and useable.
> To do it cheap, you have to do your research and not get in a hurry.
>
> --
> Mark Price
> Morgantown, WV
> 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Russell Neyhart <rtneyhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I expect to be around $1500.00 when I'm done. I'm not sure how much 
>> cheaper it'd be to get a donor vehicle as a $1500 to $2000 donor these 
>> days (at least around here) will get you a neglected POS, _but_ as you 
>> stated it would be the most reliable method since you'd more than likely 
>> have a complete setup regardless of condition. That would definitely 
>> save you time scrounging for parts. Procuring a complete donor would be 
>> my first choice if I had room - see below. My first choice for a donor 
>> would be a wrecked Liberty CRD, second being a Cherokee or Wrangler 4.0.
>>
>> Another issue (for me) is room. While I have a large enough back yard to 
>> park a vehicle, I can't drive down to it giving me only my driveway 
>> right now. I also have no garage so anything I do has to be in 
>> relatively good weather and be cleaned up before nightfall.
>>
>> Probably the cheapest method would be to keep what is on there and fix 
>> the problem(s) present, especially with my car with only 64,500 on it. 
>> This fellow has a nice Web site on care and feeding of the 258/BBD setup 
>> including the emissions: http://home.sprynet.com/~dale02/ entitled "Jeep 
>> - Adventures Under the Hood". The only issue I can see is where to get 
>> some of the emissions equipment that is now at least 19-1/2 years old?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Russell
>>
>>
>> -Snip-
>>     
>>> Cost, 
>>> These things are not cheap to do. I have yet to run across anyone who
>>> has a working system under 2 Grand, with the possible exception of some
>>> one who bought a donor vehicle and then stripped it for parts, which is
>>> probably just about the cheapest and most reliable method that I can
>>> come up with to obtain the parts.  
>>> Horror stories accompany other applications where parts were attempted
>>> to be found at pick a parts. Incompatible parts are the biggest
>>> problems, and then making parts try to fit with machining operations is
>>> not cheap either unless you have your own fully equipped machine shop.
>>> Numbers I have seen spent to accomplish this “replacement for a BBD”
>>> Carburetor have been aprox. $2500 to $3500 on the whole.
>>>       
>>  -Snip-
>>
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