Hello we are new to this group. we are a local high school Auto Tech class who is currently about to swap a perkins diesel into a 89 Jeep Chreokee.
The donor vehicle is a Jacobsen Lawn tractor. We will also run this as a biodiesel (Veggie oil). First thing we have to do is mount the engine into the jeep. I was thinking the easist thing we could do was to swap the entire drive train into the jeep (engine and tranny) or we could adapt the perkins to the jeep automatic. This is strictly a shop vehicle and will never be on the road again, maybe a couple of times around the parking lot
The problems I see are:
1. the Jasobsen tractor tranny it has a case hanging off the end of the tranny that converts it to front wheel drive. can I just remove the tranny and adapt it to the jeep transfer case?
2. Should I just convert the jeep to rear wheel drive?
3. Should I build an adapter to mount the perkins to the automatic tranny? We have a pretty good machine shop.

As of now the kids have removed the jeep drive train engine/tranny/tcase all still connected and all wiring harness.
The perkins is almost ready to lift out, and as with the jeep we will lift the entire drive train as one unit.
THis is going to be fun.
Any ideas comments? would love to hear any stories or see pics of your conversion.
Steve
Ward Melville
Auto Tech Instructor