I got my engine on order and plan on taking the old out with the tranny on it, Puting the new engine and tranny back in the same way.

Does anyone know if I can take out the engine and tranny without taking off the front end of the truck. It looks like now, I need to take off the cross memeber over the raditor to get the engine out.

Has anyone done this before.

Please let me know, it would save alot of work if i don;t ahve to take the front of the truck apart.

kelly

PS, I got a 1997 romo motor and tranny form asap motors in houston for $2150.

 

Well the Engine alone just fits after removing the Radiator. If you want to do it with the Tranny attached, don't know why you would want to do this.

You would definatly need to remove more, if not all, of the front end.

Good luck with it.

Doug

 

If you have a lift it would be easier to lift the cab and front sheet metal off together. Don't laugh, go to www.flatratetech.com and they show you how

 

The cross member over top of the rad doesn't come off. By far the easiest shadetree way to pull an engine is to separate the engine and tranny. Will you be doing this in the driveway or do you have access to shop with a lift?

JMC

 

Just to let you know that I am not crazy, the reason for taking it all out, is that the motor and tranny have over 300,000 miles on them. So, my plan was to take them out as one unit and put them back in that way. I shoudl be able to take the front end of the truck off with out the cab.

I was just wondering if anyone had done it this way before.

Taking the cab off is not an option.

Kelly

 

The front end of the truck is part of the cab. Unless you cut and weld it is not coming apart.

JMC

 

And???

 

Well, call me crazy, but I cut the cross over of the radiator, now I have plenty of room to get the motor and tranny out in one move. I’ll reattach it with some angle iron and bolts when putting it back together.

 

Forgot to tell everyone that the motor had a bad head gasket. I’ve been noticing water missing, but not a bad water pump. Just enough got into the cylinder that when I went to start it broke something. I know now I can not turn the crank.

 

why would you want the extra work of taking the tranny out with the motor? don't do it, it will cause you more headaches than you want

 

Because I replacng the motor and the tranny.

Kelly

 

sorry, from your first post, it sounded like you would be putting the old trans back in

 

Nah, Not with 300,000 miles on it. I just put in a 50,000 used rear end last summer, so with a 60,000 tranny and engine, I have almost a new truck. Shocks are new and upper control arms are new and new lower ball joints.
New altenator, starter, so there is not much more to replace.

Kelly