My 4.0 swap

[AZFX4]

Yeah the only reason I would swap it is if the Expy dash is in better shape than mine. Mine is trashed.

 

[AZFX4]

Well it looks like my plan to get that 91 explorer has fallen through. Anyone know if a 93 explorer is the same?

 

[country0001]

They say there are differences in every year. Not sure. I used a 94 ranger. I had to splice the headlights and taillights. I swapped to manual windows to avoid that the prob of windows, and I'm swapping to a manual t case. My donor was 2wd.

 

[AZFX4]

They say there are differences in every year. Not sure. I used a 94 ranger. I had to splice the headlights and taillights. I swapped to manual windows to avoid that the prob of windows, and I'm swapping to a manual t case. My donor was 2wd.

But your engine harness plugged right into the firewall connection with no changes?

 

[country0001]

Plugged in , no problem. It even looks like it belongs there.

 

[trail B2]

I only changed mine because it was a gen one dash which I think are kinda weird with the big cardboard hole on the passenger side.So your probably fine color comes into this too.

 

[04sd]

A '93 should work fine. For the most part '91 - '94 are the same but there are small changes year to year. I'm not sure about '93 but I know '94 had EGR and a cam position sensor, '91 - '92 don't. If you swap in the entire dash it doesn't really matter for wiring what year you pick. One difference between the BII and the Ex will be in the PW&L. If you have manual windows it doesn't matter but other wise you'll need to do some splicing/rewiring.

 

[AZFX4]

Ok after weeks of waiting im finally going to be picking up my donor exploder tomorrow. I have decided to tackle the motor swap and then move on to the SAS, mostly due to the fact that the front axle I have needs some attention before going in. Anyway I hope to get some pictures of the donor and get them up for you all to see. Then Ill be pulling the B2 in and start tearing it down.

 

[Desertchild]

Ok after weeks of waiting im finally going to be picking up my donor exploder tomorrow. I have decided to tackle the motor swap and then move on to the SAS, mostly due to the fact that the front axle I have needs some attention before going in. Anyway I hope to get some pictures of the donor and get them up for you all to see. Then Ill be pulling the B2 in and start tearing it down.

I finally joined!
Can't wait to get started on this. It's gonna turn out great

 

[AZFX4]

So Im gonna be pulling my dying 2.9 motor this weekend. Anyone know the best pick point to hook my cherry picker to? Do I need to pull the intake and use one of the bolt holes?

 

[BlackBII]

There are normally threaded holes on the back of the heads and tops of the exhaust manifolds. I always use those. Just put a bolt through the chain and thread it into the hole. One on the back of the motor, one on the front, opposite sides of course.

 

[AZFX4]

Well I finally got around to getting the B2 in the garage and getting the motor and drive train. Here are a few pics of the old dying 2.9 coming out.

Getting started

These are a life saver!

OUT!

 

[4.0B2]

man how i don't miss that 2.9..... just wait till you have the 4.0 in and drive it one time. i can sit here and tell you how great it is all day, but until you drive it-- you won't understand!

 

[country0001]

man how i don't miss that 2.9..... just wait till you have the 4.0 in and drive it one time. i can sit here and tell you how great it is all day, but until you drive it-- you won't understand!

+1000

I can't wait to get my 5 speed in and get mine backon the road.

 

[AZFX4]

Well tomorrow im gonna unload the explorer and pull it in next to the B2 so I can start looking at what all I need to swap. Then hopefully saturday ill have the 4.0 out of it and get it ready to go in the bronco.

 

[BlackBII]

What you need to swap?

Everything. :icon_thumby:

 

[disciplerocks]

Doo eet! I can't agree more with 4.0B2 there.

 

[AZFX4]

The one question I have is a bout the harness and computer. I see that on the driver side there is a cannon plug the ties the engine harness to the dash but this harness also goes through the firewall on the passenger side too. Anyone know what im supposed to do here? Also where is the computer?

 

[BlackBII]

Unplug your current cannon plug, and everything connected to it. Pull out your current computer along with the harness connected to it, through the firewall. After doing this, there shouldn't be any wiring left under the hood.

Replace what you just took out with whats in your donor.

 

[disciplerocks]

You are swapping all the wiring and the dash? I just spliced mine.