mad hatter
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- July 6, 2008
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- City, State
- Twin Falls, Idaho
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '95 XLT
Like the title says, i'm swapping the motor out on my 95 xlt. It's the 4.0 automatic 4x4. I bought a motor out of a junk yard. The donor motor came out of a 96 ranger, but its the same exact motor (just less miles, been rebuilt by a ford certified shop, and has a good oil pump and main bearing, something the original in mine lacks as of now ). We cant get the motor to seat back into the tranny. The bolts on the torque converter are lined up with the flywheel and actually push into it, and the pins on the block are lined up in thier proper places with the tranny but we can't seem to get it to slip back into the tranny. We've shook it ever which way and even turned the motor over by hand to see if it would go. Anybody have any experience with this issue or know what could be causing it?