Grand Cher. T-Case question

[BennyLT]

My friend has a 98 or so grand with the v8. (maybe a 283? or something like that)  It has all time all-wheel-drive.  - sorry i don't have much more detail.  it's not mine so i don't know it inside and out yet.

Anyway, he has a leaking rear main seal.  So we have to drop some components to get in there to fix it.  We were thinking it might be a good time to do a part time 4x4 conversion.   

We don't know what transfer cases are compatable and what donor vehicles to look for yet. 

He wants it to be pretty much plug and play.  He is actually truck mechanic so he can fab up mounts or whatever. 

Or if someone can even point me to a web resource with this swap detailed i would be grateful. 

Thanks

[phil3604]

Well without knowing an exact year, its really hard to say, but most probable that it will be difficult to find a "direct" swap if he has a V-8 and not an 4.0L inline 6. It can be swapped, but most likely the input shaft will have to be swapped in order for it to "fit".
There are numerous articles on the web for this mod, try this one at NAGCA.com (North American Grand Cherokee) -

http://www.nagca.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26048

or this one at Jeep Horizons -

http://jeephorizons.com/tech/tcase.html   

Both are pretty good write-ups (with pics) on how to do this swap. (you may have to copy and past the above links...i couldn't get them to work)
Good luck!!!

[Rick_Bear]

I corrected your links to work, but one is a dead link.