I don't know just how much you all know about us editors... I won't speak of the other guys, but I'm the redneck Jeep nut from NJ.  Rust doesn't scare me, the ends almost always justify the means, and normal conventions of what should be done where don't hold much sway over my behavior.  Hence the Walmart engine swap.

So, here's the situation, I'm still on my screwy road trip, and I'm still working on swapping parts as I go across the country to get my body frame and axles closer to a full Jeep. 

After covering a wheeling even in Wellsville, Ohio, I met some of the guys in a Walmart parking lot and we dropped in a 6-cylinder out of a Jtruck.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.  I thought the Scrambler was originally a 4-cylinder... which means to put a 6-cylinder in it I would then need to go to a smog ref in CA to approve it so I can register it.  I then learned that it really was supposed to have a 6-cylinder, so to put a 6 back in it and make it legal should be easy.

Long story short, I lined up a 6 cylinder in Ohio after learning this, with the hopes of having the Jeep close to driving by the time I got it home.  So, after a day of wheeling, we stopped in a Walmart, pulled the front clip and "installed" an engine.  The V-8 I was to swap in Wisconsin was in the front of the trailer so I had near to no space to put the engine.

I knew in two days I'd have to pull it back out again, but that was also 700 miles down the road... so it wasn't a huge concern.  The big thing was to get the engine loaded, and get back on the road.