redrocket
New and loving it
ok as most of you know this is old news if you follow me on the other fourms but as i forgit about this forum and trying to rember to come check it out every now and then.. any way on to the progress
last winter i picked up a 88 ranger 2wd manual every thing with the 2.0 carbed motor. for 200.00 bucks.
Sense before i found a truck i had been gathering parts for the swap. About a month ago i have the motor back from machine shop and put together. also have all my parts in. so now its just a matter of takeing the old one out and stuffing the 5.0 in.. ill up date this as more i make more progress.
when i first got her little ruff but that can be fixed
the old radio didnt work and was ducked taped in the dash.. so tour all of that out and wired in a pioneer head unit i had laying around
the old seats were shot. had tears in em and smelt like something died on em.
installed some black carpet i had laying around for the time being im going to order some molded carpet later down the rd. sense i had my old 00 ranger seats siting around i decided to mod the tracks and make em bolt in the 88 turned out nice i thank lot better than em other seats.
done some body work and got the truck in primer.. thank god its not white any more..
fyi the pic was took before the whole truck was finished beging primed
geting the 5.0 out of moms old 84 ltd crown vic
5.0 out ready to be took apart
block ready to go to machine shop.. took 3 months to get it back lol
while i was waiting for the block to get done. i painted all the pullys and painted the alt.. then made a lamp out of the old cam shaft and smog pump well used the pully off of it
got block back ready to be put together
cam, crank, pistons and rods installed
oil pan and oil pump and timeing chain and timeing cover installed
heads installed and waterpump installed ready for paint
intake, valve covers,headers , and carb is just siting their.. motor ready to be installed
picked up a rad and a efan and a explorer powersteering box.. that manual steering has got to go.
well got a lot of work done this weekend.. ended up geting the old 2.0 out and geting the 5.0 down into its new home and boy they arnt kidding about clearance problems this is one long motor. gotta tuck the rad under the core support but its where its going to set i let the drive shaft figure out where the motor is going to sit and went from their
the old tired 2.0 almost out
out and good bye.. that had to be the most weekest motor i have ever had
5.0 going in for the last and finale time
in now to wire it and make a trans mount
she runs.. still got a bug with the starter squeeking, and air in the cooling system and waiting on that throttle cable bracket to get here..
truck was finished and started for the 1st time on 5/30/2011..
heres a crappy cell phone vid i took today of it runing sense every thing is broke in. motor has 5k on it now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIZ0JugLbIw
last winter i picked up a 88 ranger 2wd manual every thing with the 2.0 carbed motor. for 200.00 bucks.
Sense before i found a truck i had been gathering parts for the swap. About a month ago i have the motor back from machine shop and put together. also have all my parts in. so now its just a matter of takeing the old one out and stuffing the 5.0 in.. ill up date this as more i make more progress.
when i first got her little ruff but that can be fixed
the old radio didnt work and was ducked taped in the dash.. so tour all of that out and wired in a pioneer head unit i had laying around
the old seats were shot. had tears in em and smelt like something died on em.
installed some black carpet i had laying around for the time being im going to order some molded carpet later down the rd. sense i had my old 00 ranger seats siting around i decided to mod the tracks and make em bolt in the 88 turned out nice i thank lot better than em other seats.
done some body work and got the truck in primer.. thank god its not white any more..
fyi the pic was took before the whole truck was finished beging primed
geting the 5.0 out of moms old 84 ltd crown vic
5.0 out ready to be took apart
block ready to go to machine shop.. took 3 months to get it back lol
while i was waiting for the block to get done. i painted all the pullys and painted the alt.. then made a lamp out of the old cam shaft and smog pump well used the pully off of it
got block back ready to be put together
cam, crank, pistons and rods installed
oil pan and oil pump and timeing chain and timeing cover installed
heads installed and waterpump installed ready for paint
intake, valve covers,headers , and carb is just siting their.. motor ready to be installed
picked up a rad and a efan and a explorer powersteering box.. that manual steering has got to go.
well got a lot of work done this weekend.. ended up geting the old 2.0 out and geting the 5.0 down into its new home and boy they arnt kidding about clearance problems this is one long motor. gotta tuck the rad under the core support but its where its going to set i let the drive shaft figure out where the motor is going to sit and went from their
the old tired 2.0 almost out
out and good bye.. that had to be the most weekest motor i have ever had
5.0 going in for the last and finale time
in now to wire it and make a trans mount
she runs.. still got a bug with the starter squeeking, and air in the cooling system and waiting on that throttle cable bracket to get here..
truck was finished and started for the 1st time on 5/30/2011..
heres a crappy cell phone vid i took today of it runing sense every thing is broke in. motor has 5k on it now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIZ0JugLbIw
well i have one thing to say. I am very envy at you. I like your choice of color. how much did this engine swapping cost you all in all?
