Wires Behind Engine (Todays My Birthday)

[Shaun123]

Sorry for repost but i just had to repost it in this section i need help fast i want to start pulling my engine out already oh and yeah todays my birthday : so hopefully ill get some help asap
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[NEED HELP FAST i decided to take off the fuel rails but when i pulled them up the injectors are stuck inside the rails so i then decided to disconnect the fuel injectore wire clips but i cant manage to get them off i remember gething them off last year and broke a clip...

so then i said what the heck lemme just yank out all the wiring from the egine .. 5 hours with breaks of disconnecting and labeling wires and i still cant manage to get all the whole wiring unit out it seams that behind the engine there are 4 connectors that i have to remove 2 on each side and i cant remove it not only do i not know how to disconnect it but its verry hard to reach it so when i do i cant be there forever tinkering with it.. it has to be posible to remove those wires anyone have any ideas how?]

 

[Space Truckin']

The two green connectors are the front 02 sensors and the two big connectors (one black, and one grey) lead to the back half of the wiring harness (transmission, body, etc.). All four are standard Ford style connectors so there is no real trick to getting them apart. The tab slides up the ramp and then they come apart. In other words, they just s u c k! Small hands help so my son disconnected them for me. He said he would be happy to help you too if you cover the airfare. He would like to see Puerto Rico.

If you need more room, you could wait until everything else is disconnected and then start to lift the engine before disconnecting them. That would be cheaper than the plane ticket too.

 

[Turdle]

Happy birthday
If you remove the center console-then roll the carpet back from the dash a bit-there is an access panel on the transmission hump for just this-
remove the panel, and your connectors are right there--be sure to make a note of which sensor plugs in where--
then, the connector needs to be removed from it's little bracket-

there is also a connector on the driver side of the transmission, for the range selector-I believe it also needs to be disconnected-
then the harness should be free--

 

[Warren Rice]

HELP PLEASE!!!! I was having transmission problems on my 96 4.0 Explorer and had it up on stands looking at it and one of the 16 pin connectors (The black one) from the transmission to the engine is totally shattered. The only wiring harness that I could find at junk yard is for a 97 Explorer. It is different but it does have the same black 16 pin connector. Unfortunately it seems to be wired differently - wire colors going into each pin slot appear to be about 50% different that what I "believe" was the pattern of the old broken one. Does anyone have a reference for pin numbers to wire colors for a 96 Ford 4.0 Explorer?

Please HELP!!!!

 

[Cobraguy]

HELP PLEASE!!!! I was having transmission problems on my 96 4.0 Explorer and had it up on stands looking at it and one of the 16 pin connectors (The black one) from the transmission to the engine is totally shattered. The only wiring harness that I could find at junk yard is for a 97 Explorer. It is different but it does have the same black 16 pin connector. Unfortunately it seems to be wired differently - wire colors going into each pin slot appear to be about 50% different that what I "believe" was the pattern of the old broken one. Does anyone have a reference for pin numbers to wire colors for a 96 Ford 4.0 Explorer?

Please HELP!!!!

Welcome!

I don't have anything I can post here...but it's considered bad manners to hijack someone else's thread. I might recommend you start a new thread. You will get a lot more exposure that way too.

 

[pj8847]

HELP PLEASE!!!! I was having transmission problems on my 96 4.0 Explorer and had it up on stands looking at it and one of the 16 pin connectors (The black one) from the transmission to the engine is totally shattered. The only wiring harness that I could find at junk yard is for a 97 Explorer. It is different but it does have the same black 16 pin connector. Unfortunately it seems to be wired differently - wire colors going into each pin slot appear to be about 50% different that what I "believe" was the pattern of the old broken one. Does anyone have a reference for pin numbers to wire colors for a 96 Ford 4.0 Explorer?

Please HELP!!!!

A very bad attempt at trying to have your problem viewed in the "911" section. Since non-elite can not post new threads here, you seem to have thought that hijacking someone else's, and violating a basic rule would be the correct thing to do... Not smart, and not very nice...

Sorry for repost but i just had to repost it in this section i need help fast i want to start pulling my engine out already oh and yeah todays my birthday : so hopefully ill get some help asap
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[NEED HELP FAST i decided to take off the fuel rails but when i pulled them up the injectors are stuck inside the rails so i then decided to disconnect the fuel injectore wire clips but i cant manage to get them off i remember gething them off last year and broke a clip...

so then i said what the heck lemme just yank out all the wiring from the egine .. 5 hours with breaks of disconnecting and labeling wires and i still cant manage to get all the whole wiring unit out it seams that behind the engine there are 4 connectors that i have to remove 2 on each side and i cant remove it not only do i not know how to disconnect it but its verry hard to reach it so when i do i cant be there forever tinkering with it.. it has to be posible to remove those wires anyone have any ideas how?]

I haven't seen your other thread, are you removing the tranny attached to the engine? Or will you be separating them and just pulling the engine by itself? If you are talking out the tranny with it, then you can leave the harness that connects to it alone, and just work out getting whatever else is needed to be unplugged once you start pulling, and more room is possibly made. If it's just the engine your pulling, just pull back all the wiring off the engine and tie it out of the way if you can, then pull the engine out and fuss with the plugs then.