Not yet, my roommate and I are helping his son replace a timing chain on a Dodge Durango. No space in the driveway and they bought all the replacement parts on eBay (slow shipping)so it will be after the 1st of the year when I start this project.
Josh how did the radiator run out of water,I drove that thing and it had no water leaks. I ran royal purple in that motor it didn’t save it. I feel like crap because I drove the thing,and the only thing I had problems with was in 100+ weather it would run hot but never blew out water. I don’t want you to feel I sold you a junker and stuck you. I freezing my ass in jersey at fort dix base.
The van will get a heart transplant once I finish the motor swap on my merkur xr4ti. The motor in the van either blew a head gasket, cracked a head or both. Water shoots out of the front center of the engine, it hydrolocks when you shut the motor off, water runs out the exhaust at a steady stream. It got hot enough getting it off the road I lost oil pressure. Don't feel bad, I would have paid $500 for the van with no motor. I will update the progress on the van when I start this project. I am working on getting a new crate motor from a coworker for the aerobomber.
Not sure of the brand of lift. Work is slow right now so I jumped on the opportunity to remove the engine the easy way. There will be a lot of cutting, and fabrication. I found a non vacuum disconnect 8.8 IFS from an 03 F150 for $150, I hope to get my hands on it within a few days. Anyone recommend a good place to get the outer axle shafts made?
The 850 spring is incorrectly listed for the awd van. The 8606 fits but 469 lbs/in is not very firm for what I want to do.
The awd spring free height is over 13 inches, install height around 10 inches and coil diameter is just under 3.5 inches, the installed height of the 850 spring is too short on the awd van. I'm going to try the 6082 spring, it is a full size 70s blazer spring. $60 a pair. If they don't fit as is, I will heat them up and reshape the ends.
Only modifications needed to fit the F150 8.8 in the aerostar is mounting tabs to the subframe and custom outer axle shafts.