I keep cruising forums and finding anecdotal evidence of these sort of conversions taking place, but no specifics... I've seen the OM616/OM617 bellhousing to NP435 articles, which are intriguing in thier own right, but they specifically refer to land rovers. I've also seen a OM616 engine placed into a CJ8 scrambler, but the article is somewhat vague, and I'm not sure that the OM616 engine mounts would be the same as the OM617. Could anyone help? I would greatly appreciate it. Here are some links I've found:

OM616/OM617 bellhousing to NP435:

http://seriestrek.com/info.html

OM616 into CJ8 Scrambler:

http://www.cookbros.com/mbz.html
http://www.cookbros.com/mbz2.html

Jeep2diesel.org, a website devoted to these sort of things:

http://www.jeep2diesel.org/

There is a member on here that has one in a YJ (OM 617), and also a member that was putting one into an old Series Land Rover (OM616). If you do a search here you should turn up a couple of threads on the topic.