I did not know this place existed when I was doing mine.
I do not think I can even post pictures on here, I have not bought a membership or watever you have to do.
I can give you the basics. I have a 91 exploder that loved to go through the a4ld trannies. On April 13th, a Friday, 2001 it went out again. I had replaced it twice before then, and broke the sprauge gear everytime. I had enough.
I bought a 1984 Ford Gran Marquis with a injected 302 and a AOD tranny. Drove it home for $800 at 120MPH. Seemed to be running great. I sold all the 4.0 parts to a kid who wanted it all for his bronco 2. Once I pulled the engine out of the Marquis, I went to change out the valve covers and all that. Once they were off you could see the DRY oil in the heads. Was not pretty. I pulled the pan to find out that the timing chain had gone out before. In that year they used a plastic lower gear. Not the best of ideas. The plastic peices had clogged the oil pickup tube. So, I decided that engine was not going to be my new engine.
Next I bought a 70 Ford van for a hundred bucks. I pulled it out and then set it up for my exploder. When I first put the engine in, I used the stock c-4 out of the van. I did not have 4 wheel drive. I used the stock Frod van motor mounts. They have a single stud. All I had to do was get the postion I wanted and then drill the holes in the cross member. They worked great for me. The cross member had to be moved forward of course. the c-4 is shorter than the a4ld.
I used all the brackets and pullys off of the Marquis. that way I could use a serpentine belt, and the stock power steering pump. I did not use a fan. The stock radiator went with the 4.0, so I bought a Chevy s-10 radiator for it, new. I did not like how close it was to the pullys, and I 4 wheel alot, and did not want to puncture it. What I did was remove the grill, cut out the core support a little larger and mounted the radiator on the front side of the core support. Then put the grill back on. I did have to loose the safety latch for the hood, and cut a small half circle on the top of the grill, for access to the radiator cap. it all fits in there nicely, and is not noticable unless you know what you are looking for. I bought dual B-Cool electric fans with the shroud built in, mounted those on the inside of the core support. The core support was cut to the size of that shroud actually. I of course had to use the remote oil filter, but that was a no brainer.
I was able to modify the heater box so i could keep it. I was also able to use the driveline from the van for a driveline while I tested to see if I liked how everything was setup.
I will start the next chapter after lunch, but it gets more interesting.
in place before the thing will be happy. Is this true?
Good luck!
