04-04-2008, 09:33 PM
march 18 2008
I had limited time since I didn't get started till 6:30 but i had the front clip ready to come off and cleaned up in about 45 minutes. tomorrow i will get under the truck and unbolt the dhafts, linkage, motor mounts, and the harness through the fire wall. If I get really desperate I may go ahead and pull the motor/tranny/tcase hopefully as one piece I also need to un kook the exhaust
march19 2008
I had limited time since I didn't get started till 6:30 but i had the front clip ready to come off and cleaned up in about 45 minutes. tomorrow i will get under the truck and unbolt the dhafts, linkage, motor mounts, and the harness through the fire wall. If I get really desperate I may go ahead and pull the motor/tranny/tcase hopefully as one piece I also need to un kook the exhaust
march 20 2008
I got the motor/tranny/tcase out as one piece I had to take the cats off they made it to big to get out so off they came and out the rest came when I put everything back I will only be putting the motor/tranny in as one piece, the tcase is easy enough to install under the truck. I also got the air box off of with a BFH biggrin.gif I am building a new one of those because none of the junkyards have a no ac box. started looking at the fuel lines I am gonna have to change one I think from the fuel filter up to the rail.
march 21 2008
Dash is out and steering colum is out I still need to go pick up another column cause I want a non automatic column. Clutch master cyclinder is installed and all the auto linkage is out alright nuff chit chat back to work
dash is complete, inside i am just lacking the ecu and steering column I have the ecu just not sure which one to use. motor tranny tcase and front driveshaft are all in everything underneith the truck mis done except the exhaust. inner fenders and core support is on. started hooking up some of the harness it isn't going to well I was trying to use the plugs that run the length of the truck and land on the driverside fender and nothing is matching up. So I gotta break out the chiltons and figure out this mess. the fuel lines are not working out either I had read awhile ago that all you had to do was change the line that comes off of the filter but both need to be changed the problem is that the other hose goes straight from the fuel tank to the engine with no joints. I am really starting to wonder what I got myself into, this is turning out to be quite a undertaking. If I had it all to do over again I would not do it. everything is bolting up nicely it's just the wiring that is killing me
March 22 2008
I got it to fire up and boy is that thing loud with NO exhaust just the "Y" pipe. I still need to get the radiator mounted and plumed get a non ac belt , figure out how to get the rear lights to work cause the b2's rear lights were fed from the engine bay and the explorers lights are fed from inside the truck so I gotta figure out what wires I need out of the explorer harness and get them through the firewall and hooked into the b2 part of the harness and then get the speaker wires ran cause the explorer I got the stuff out of had the premium sound system which means no rear speaker wires but I still have the b2 dash so I can rob stuff from it. then I need to bleed the clutch and do the rear axle swap but the axle may just wait till another weekend I gotta go out tomorrow and get a steering column and I should be done with the swap
oh yeah I was making a big deal out of nothing with the wiring just make sure you take pictures of everything in the donor I didn't and the last time I saw the dam thing was six months ago so I saw all this extra shit and started to freak so I went and saw my buddies at the junkyard and went back and found an explorer like mine and took many pics and that helped alot
alright here we go I am gonna post some pics and maybe you guys will get off my back about pics, You pic whores. I am gonna do a write up later may take me a week or so to do the write up but I will do one.
here is the tranny I used FM146
![[Image: 1002.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1002.jpg)
here are a few as I am dismantling the front end
![[Image: 1004.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1004.jpg)
![[Image: 1006.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1006.jpg)
![[Image: 1008.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1008.jpg)
![[Image: 1009.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1009.jpg)
![[Image: 1017.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1017.jpg)
here are a few when I was doing the clutch master cylinder you can see the plate that I removed that was covering the hole for the cylinder I had drilled holes in it way back when and this is where the temp guage was routed.
![[Image: 1014.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1014.jpg)
![[Image: 1015.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1015.jpg)
![[Image: 1016.jpg]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y23/onewyr/40swap/1016.jpg)
I had limited time since I didn't get started till 6:30 but i had the front clip ready to come off and cleaned up in about 45 minutes. tomorrow i will get under the truck and unbolt the dhafts, linkage, motor mounts, and the harness through the fire wall. If I get really desperate I may go ahead and pull the motor/tranny/tcase hopefully as one piece I also need to un kook the exhaust
march19 2008
I had limited time since I didn't get started till 6:30 but i had the front clip ready to come off and cleaned up in about 45 minutes. tomorrow i will get under the truck and unbolt the dhafts, linkage, motor mounts, and the harness through the fire wall. If I get really desperate I may go ahead and pull the motor/tranny/tcase hopefully as one piece I also need to un kook the exhaust
march 20 2008
I got the motor/tranny/tcase out as one piece I had to take the cats off they made it to big to get out so off they came and out the rest came when I put everything back I will only be putting the motor/tranny in as one piece, the tcase is easy enough to install under the truck. I also got the air box off of with a BFH biggrin.gif I am building a new one of those because none of the junkyards have a no ac box. started looking at the fuel lines I am gonna have to change one I think from the fuel filter up to the rail.
march 21 2008
Dash is out and steering colum is out I still need to go pick up another column cause I want a non automatic column. Clutch master cyclinder is installed and all the auto linkage is out alright nuff chit chat back to work
dash is complete, inside i am just lacking the ecu and steering column I have the ecu just not sure which one to use. motor tranny tcase and front driveshaft are all in everything underneith the truck mis done except the exhaust. inner fenders and core support is on. started hooking up some of the harness it isn't going to well I was trying to use the plugs that run the length of the truck and land on the driverside fender and nothing is matching up. So I gotta break out the chiltons and figure out this mess. the fuel lines are not working out either I had read awhile ago that all you had to do was change the line that comes off of the filter but both need to be changed the problem is that the other hose goes straight from the fuel tank to the engine with no joints. I am really starting to wonder what I got myself into, this is turning out to be quite a undertaking. If I had it all to do over again I would not do it. everything is bolting up nicely it's just the wiring that is killing me
March 22 2008
I got it to fire up and boy is that thing loud with NO exhaust just the "Y" pipe. I still need to get the radiator mounted and plumed get a non ac belt , figure out how to get the rear lights to work cause the b2's rear lights were fed from the engine bay and the explorers lights are fed from inside the truck so I gotta figure out what wires I need out of the explorer harness and get them through the firewall and hooked into the b2 part of the harness and then get the speaker wires ran cause the explorer I got the stuff out of had the premium sound system which means no rear speaker wires but I still have the b2 dash so I can rob stuff from it. then I need to bleed the clutch and do the rear axle swap but the axle may just wait till another weekend I gotta go out tomorrow and get a steering column and I should be done with the swap
oh yeah I was making a big deal out of nothing with the wiring just make sure you take pictures of everything in the donor I didn't and the last time I saw the dam thing was six months ago so I saw all this extra shit and started to freak so I went and saw my buddies at the junkyard and went back and found an explorer like mine and took many pics and that helped alot
alright here we go I am gonna post some pics and maybe you guys will get off my back about pics, You pic whores. I am gonna do a write up later may take me a week or so to do the write up but I will do one.
here is the tranny I used FM146
here are a few as I am dismantling the front end
here are a few when I was doing the clutch master cylinder you can see the plate that I removed that was covering the hole for the cylinder I had drilled holes in it way back when and this is where the temp guage was routed.