CopyKat
Member
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2007
- Messages
- 765
- Reaction score
- 3
- Points
- 18
- Location
- Manitoba, Coldest place in Canada
- Vehicle Year
- 1987
- Vehicle
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0L
The engine developed a coolant leak and it was fowling one of the plugs. So I looked around for a donor as it would cost the same amount to just replace the head gaskets if that was truly what was wrong. I suspect it's a cracked head however.
So 2 weeks ago I found A nice donor. Went to go look at it. 92 ranger with 260 000 km. It ran like a top, no lifter tick or anything, good steady oil pressure.
So I swapped out the engines last week. Got everything finished up last night thanks to a buddy for coming to help hook everything back up.
Defiantly not as much power from what I had in there before. But it's OK for now. I can at least run regular fuel in it now.
One mod that I did that I can feel the difference on is, I cut the rivet out of the motor mount and put a bolt in and tightened them down more than the rivet was. Really stifened the motor mounts up. Just need to redo the trans mount setup and it'll be rocken.
So 2 weeks ago I found A nice donor. Went to go look at it. 92 ranger with 260 000 km. It ran like a top, no lifter tick or anything, good steady oil pressure.
So I swapped out the engines last week. Got everything finished up last night thanks to a buddy for coming to help hook everything back up.
Defiantly not as much power from what I had in there before. But it's OK for now. I can at least run regular fuel in it now.
One mod that I did that I can feel the difference on is, I cut the rivet out of the motor mount and put a bolt in and tightened them down more than the rivet was. Really stifened the motor mounts up. Just need to redo the trans mount setup and it'll be rocken.
