Seeing the Light at the End of the Tunnel

I've put in 3-4 hours during each of the past two nights working on the Jeep, spending most of my time hooking up the wiring harness and the other various components that go in the engine bay. As I expected, I've started running into problems, mostly consisting of the need to buy missing parts. I've also had some problems involving compatibility issues between my Jeep (92 Wrangler), my engine (96 Grand Cherokee) and my wiring harness (93 or 94 Wrangler). If I could do it all over again, I would definitely have looked for a Wrangler or Cherokee that had been totalled so I could have taken everything (engine, trans, wiring) out of the same vehicle in order to avoid these little problems along the way.







One of my problems is that my fuel lines are too short to connect to the fuel rail of the 6 cylinder motor. I recently discovered that I might need to go as far as dropping my gas tank and changing the fuel pump... I really hope that's not the case.



I removed the rails from the bottom of my old seats so that they could be thrown out. I then mounted the passenger rail to the bottom of the seat that I bought while I was in Pittsburgh. Now I just need to find a matching driver's side seat and a rear bench seat.





Another problem that I have is that I am missing the ignition coil and the wire which deliver the spark to the spark plugs. The ignition coil attaches to the center pin of the distributor cap.



I am also having some trouble determining the exact location and orientation of the power steering pump. And of course I don't have the right bolts to mount it to the motor. The biggest and most annoying problem during this project by far has been the need to track down the right type of bolts to connect things during EVERY stage of the rebuild.



Finally, I have two identical male plugs, one coming from the crankshaft position sensor and the other coming from the wiring harness adjacent to the CPS. I read online that the green plug hooks up to the MAP sensor, so I'm not sure where to plug in the CPS...