Explorer finally died

[Jordan86]

Almost made it to 220000, I found a replacement motor for $175 but it is out of an explorer with a manual tranny. What would I need to do to make the manual tranny motor work with my auto? Thanks in advance

 

[my pos mounty]

There is no difference between an engine that was mated to an auto transmission and one that was mated to a manual transmission.
You will be able to keep your existing trans and it will all bolt together.

 

[tonyroc14]

damn thats a cheap engine. Why did yours fail? My pops has an explorer SOHC with 262,000 on it and it runs great.

 

[jd944]

You'll probably need to remove the pilot bearing/bushing from the manual motor as it may interfere with the torque converter.

 

[Jordan86]

I bought the truck off craigslist for 500 bucks and it had a pretty good tick coming from the top end of motor. I pulled the heads off, which were really warped, and had them milled down and put all new gaskets and pushrods in. The inside of the engine was the dirtiest motor I have ever seen so I knew I was going to have to replace it sooner than later. I put 7000 miles on it before she threw a bearing today. Hopefully the other motor will be in by this weekend. I'm going to rebuild the junk motor with the highest performance parts I can buy. It's gonna be fun!! Thanks for all the help from everyone in the forum, and I will keep you all posted on the build.

 

[bluestream1]

My understanding is that the cam is different for the manual tranny engine. Develops more torque at lower RPM's. Nothing that would really matter IMO

 

[Glen4X4]

My understanding is that the cam is different for the manual tranny engine. Develops more torque at lower RPM's. Nothing that would really matter IMO

I believe it was the first gen made that way. Either way if it were the case it would only do good for the truck.

 

[PowerAddict]

damn thats a cheap engine. Why did yours fail? My pops has an explorer SOHC with 262,000 on it and it runs great.

hells yeah! That is suepr cheap, did you get it off craigslist or from a junkyard?

 

[Jordan86]

Off craigslist, I love that site lol