Fozzy
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- August 25, 2008
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- City, State
- Southern Oklahoma..
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2000
I am trying to help out a buddy who basically cooked a frozen engine in his 2000 Explorer. The first problem I'm having is that I thought from the "get-go" that this was a 4.0 SOHC, this is a 4.0 pushrod type engine and is not an overhead cam engine.. so far it seems to be rather confusing and I think a matter of just not using the correct terminology.
-ANYWAY-
I contacted a salvage yard and just to be able to have them reply, I had to send them the VIN#. They sent back that they did have a used engine out of a rolled Mercury Mountaineer with less that 80k on it. COOL! Went down and picked it up and took it to my other buddy who does autowork on the side (I do too, but not up to swapping entire engines).. He got everything stripped down and old stuff pulled out and now I need some help on a couple of things:
The cam sensors are different and the new engine has a 3 prong plug for the distributor drive (yeah I know its not a distributor) and the old engine has a two prong set up. Both of the caps for these drives fit perfectly on each other?!?!
The new plenum is slightly different with two fuel lines on the plenum to the old plenum's single fuel inlet. The old plenum has a plugged (not machined) casting where the new engine has an actually place to attach a line.
We are planning to roll the engine over to TDC on #1 and just pull the distributor drive and swap them.
Any other suggestions from the gang here?
-ANYWAY-
I contacted a salvage yard and just to be able to have them reply, I had to send them the VIN#. They sent back that they did have a used engine out of a rolled Mercury Mountaineer with less that 80k on it. COOL! Went down and picked it up and took it to my other buddy who does autowork on the side (I do too, but not up to swapping entire engines).. He got everything stripped down and old stuff pulled out and now I need some help on a couple of things:
The cam sensors are different and the new engine has a 3 prong plug for the distributor drive (yeah I know its not a distributor) and the old engine has a two prong set up. Both of the caps for these drives fit perfectly on each other?!?!
The new plenum is slightly different with two fuel lines on the plenum to the old plenum's single fuel inlet. The old plenum has a plugged (not machined) casting where the new engine has an actually place to attach a line.
We are planning to roll the engine over to TDC on #1 and just pull the distributor drive and swap them.
Any other suggestions from the gang here?