The LS Swap Never Ends... Jeep Wrangler Drivetrain Modifications

What'S going on guys casting jeep gear and gadgets and welcome back to the ls swap video series? In my last video, we got the engine and the transmission installed inside of the jeep, and in this video we have a bunch more projects, we're gon na get done in order to get like five steps closer to firing. This thing up for the very first time, so the first project i'm going to tackle tonight is going to be the transfer case. In my last video, i installed the advanced adapters transmission adapter and in this video we're going to be opening up the transfer case and installing a new input. Shaft. And while i have the transfer case open, i'm gon na go ahead and put in the advanced adapter slip yoke eliminator. This is gon na get rid of our slip yoke and just make this a much stronger setup. Now enough talking for now, we're gon na go ahead and get this transfer case open, i'm kind of excited, because i've never like completely opened up a transfer case before so this will be, for my first time kind of excited to see what it looks like on The inside, so let's go ahead and get this thing open and get this project. Rolling first step was to loosen the front yoke and all the bolts that hold the halves together with the case apart, it's time to take off the input, shaft cover, [, Music ]. Then remove the retaining rings. Oh sorry, get your hands up. Okay, snap ring off and pull out the internals. Now it's time to swap out the input shaft, we got the transfer case open and pretty much disassembled. The entire front, half of the transfer case, went ahead and took out my old jeep transfer case 23 spline input and replaced it with the advanced adapters 27 spline input. Now this is going to allow the transfer case to go right into the gm transmission. This part is now done we're going to put all this back together, move over to the back half of the transfer case and get that slip. Yoke eliminator in [, Music ], as you just saw it, was pretty simple to put the new input in advanced adapters. Provided pretty much step-by-step instructions, so it really wasn't that hard. Now, if i already had a slip, yoke eliminator, i could go ahead and bolt this transfer case back together and throw it under the jeep. But i have gotten away with not having a slip. Yoke. Eliminator up until this point, so if you have an old xj, yj tj old lj like me, you're pretty much going to need a slip, yoke eliminator at any point, if you have a left on your jeep, so we are going to move on to the second Half of the transfer case or the back half of the transfer case and get this slip. Yoke eliminator from advanced adapters put in they come with step-by-step instructions as well, and these are even colored pictures. So um we're just gon na go ahead and get that rolling and after i get it installed, i can kind of go over the benefits of like having a slip yoke eliminator. So i can actually show you guys kind of what it does. So, let's get going. First thing we're gon na do is put together this new tail housing. I'Ve got the new bearing right here. That was in the freezer up until this point and then advanced adapters also provides like a tool to tap the bearing down into place and once we get the bearing in we're gon na throw this seal in [ Music ]. Let'S pretend that ben didn't do that. One it was too tight, i couldn't get it. I tried that i tried all right transfer case. The second half of this install is not going to be step by step. We are going to keep it moving, because if it was this whole video would be on slip. Yoke eliminators, but i have way too much to do uh to just be about that. So advanced read the full info here provide phenomenal instructions, follow them if you're using this kit. So from here, i'm just gon na get to it ready ben hall and we're keeping that e-hole baby. Oh no, everybody's in bins always drinking beer where's. My pizza, i just want food. The slip yoke eliminator install is pretty easy. We remove the factory transfer case output and the oil pump and then remove everything from the output shaft and put it back on the new one. The last step is to reinstall the internals seal, the case with our tv and finish up the job. [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ] lights, camera action, all right guys, so we got the transfer case put back together. We'Ve got the new 27 spline input, shaft put in one two, three, four, four yeah. I didn't count them so i hope you're right and uh. We also got the new slip yoke eliminator installed as well. This is a super, simple project. You can do it in your own garage. I didn't go over how to do it step by step because there's already tons of videos out there already, but i do want to talk about the slip: yoke, eliminator, real, quick, um, so a lot of older jeeps. They have these slip yoke. So basically, we've got our old style drive shaft here and the slip is on the output shaft or as a fixed yoke or a slip yoke eliminator. The slit is going to be on the drive shaft now. Another difference is that this old style setup only has two u-joints one on each side or this shaft a double card and driveshaft has two u-joints on one side and one u-joint on the other. So why do i want to go with this setup? So when you lift your jeep, your driveshaft angle gets worse and with the slip, yoke, eliminator and the double card and driveshaft. You can just point your pinion angle right at the output of your transfer case and boom you're done. You'Re not gon na have any crazy vibrations, whereas with this old setup you do that you're gon na have some vibrations in there. So not only do i have a stronger setup with this, i should have a pretty smooth ride, but with that being said, let's move on to the next step. The next step is going to be mounting the transmission. Now, in my last video, i got the motor mounts tack, welded in and in between videos. I pulled the engine out hopped in the engine bay with the welder welded, both mounts on put the engine back inside the jeep and mounted it. So the engine is mounted and good to go. It'S time to move on to the transmission mount, which i think i've got a pretty easy fix for i'm going with another product from advanced adapters. They make a ton of cool products for this swap so right here. I have got their transmission mount. It'S really neat, it's universal. What we're going to do is we're going to slide this onto the studs of the transfer case, and then this is going to hold up the transmission, so i've already modified it a little bit. Um. I'Ve decided, after i kind of mounted this up, i'm going to keep my factory skid plate on there for the time being, just to make it easy, and i took my old stock um stock mount that went under the skid plate onto the transmission and i welded It onto the advanced adapters mount and this lines up perfectly with my factory skid, so this is how we are going to mount the transmission for now. It'Ll work until i want to do a belly talk later on down the road. So the first step into getting this on and getting all this mounted is, i have to replace the studs that are on the transfer case with some longer ones since we're putting this thick bracket on now. I tried using vice grips to get these out, but they are in there really good. So i'm going to crack the welder out weld these nuts on and pull these studs [ Applause, ] [, Music, ] out [, Music, ], [, Music ]. The powertrain is officially mounted i'm going to try and show you guys under the jeep how we got that done so right. There we've got the advanced adapters transmission mount and leads right down to the stock mount which leads right through to our skid plate. So pretty easy system, eventually we'll get rid of this uh crazy, skid plate that ain't sound super low, but one project at a time. So next steps are going to be measuring for drive shafts, calling it a night, because tomorrow it is time to start working on the engine. Wiring harness right over here. Let'S fire this thing up and do something it's finally coming along right. Engine mounted check transmission mounted check, transfer case in there mounted check, skid plate up and on check we're. Finally, on the stages where it's just like kind of finishing up, it's all like everybody's, like what about the wiring man? What about the wiring? Well, let me see all right see this wire mess over here. All you have to do is grab this one, your yellow wire, and you don't. You do not want to connect it to the blue wire, this yellow wire to your red wire. You ready that's so lame if only it was that simple. You are done. It'S too late. I'M done i'll see you guys tomorrow, night time to take a look at the wiring harness now i went with a standalone kit or a standalone wiring harness. I got it off of ebay, it was 270 bucks. It is pretty much a like direct knockoff of a psi harness. I mean they even sent a psi like harness instruction manual, so literally printed out somebody they copied the kids. They copied the kit and then sent that so out their instructions. We'Re gon na see if it's any good, but it was budget friendly, so we are going to give it a shot. I also with a uh gm computer for a 5.3 4l60e got it pre-programmed. Crammed pre-programmed with my vin number, i also got the vehicle any theft system removed and some other things taken off of it, so it was 140 bucks off of ebay. This is definitely a budget-friendly option if you're looking to go that route. However, if you have to like pass any state emission standards, this will not work for you. You'Re gon na have to go with a factory harness and computer from like a gm factory harness or like a aftermarket kit from novak. I think they have the emissions to or the emission plugs in there. So luckily i don't have to worry about that, so i'm gon na go with this setup. Now, if i didn't have to worry about emissions or if i didn't really care about budget, i would definitely go with a holley terminator kit. Um, that's a phenomenal setup. It'S a really great computer and it's self tuning so now that we have talked about all of that, it's time to get this harness over on the engine. So we are not going to look at this side in this video we are going to avoid it. For now um, but here we are going to get the harness on the engine kind of plug and play everything and just kind of lay it out and get it all neat as we can on the engine. So everybody's excited about the wiring part. I know we're gon na do another video we're gon na i'm gon na pretend, like that's not there right now. I don't want to worry about that tonight. We should just told everybody: it's a psi kit. 270 bucks. I think the psi is what like 570. say: 300 bucks a budget friendly, let's get it in [ Music ]! Pretty much got everything plugged in that i could at this point, so we got the fuel injectors, the coil packs the throttle body, the alternator, the map sensor, flux, the flux capacitor. The flux capacitor is not plugged in yet not sure what we've used it for. No. That'S actually two cylinders anyway. Ben is on his last beer, which means it is time to wrap up this video whoa. It is really dark right here, um, i will be doing a full wiring video, just not in this one. So over here we've got two things: we're gon na be plugging into the computer, some fuses and relays. This is gon na be going to our new throttle, not underneath throttle our new fab gas pedal, our new gasoline for sure, and then this part is going to be what we're going to be wiring up to the jeep computer, which will be a fun a fun. Video to try and explain so uh lots to come and aside from wiring, yes, he will aside from wiring, we still need to get the intake on figure out the exhaust get the new radiator on. So we made a lot of project progress. I can't talk video's over made a lot of progress tonight, uh if we just ended it right there. I have a lot more to do done, maybe in the next video. If we get this wiring done, we can actually test fire this thing. So that is the goal, as always guys everything i use in the video will be in the video description below give the video a thumbs up subscribe to the channel, and my name is cassie and keep cheap and classy