With the old engine on the ground I wanted to pull off all of the parts that can be used on the working engine that I'll be putting into the new Tracker body. Parts like the AC compressor, alternator, power steering pump, coils, fuel injectors, water pump, etc all came off. Even the oil pan and valve cover are saved as these parts can be used in case something happens that causes one of these parts gets cracked or otherwise damaged. I still needed to get the crankshaft to turn some in order to reach the bolts holding the torque converter on the flywheel. I was able to reach a couple of the bolts from the bottom of the engine without hassle. After pulling off the covers to the engine (valve cover, oil pan, timing cover), I had to pull the camshafts from the cylinder head in order to remove the head in order to access the tops of the pistons since I was planning on beating the crankshaft to get it to move some. This was fun. I ended up beating the shit out of the crank, getting it to move a little here and there. I ended up disconnecting the connecting rods then trying to tap the pistons to what would be the top of the engine block. This ended up being fruitless for a couple of cylinders as they were seized in the cylinder walls. I ended up knocking a hole in one of the pistons. With the rods disconnected I was able to move the crank more in order to reach some more torque converter bolts. I was able to get down to a couple of bolts remaining despite the crank only moving a few degrees in any direction. Luckily I was able to use a wrench to reach the remaining bolts and tap the wrench with a small sledgehammer to loosen the bolts and eventually get them free so I can remove the torque converter. With that taken care of I no longer needed to work on the seized engine block. That thing is officially scrap. With that I carted the old engine over to a staging area behind the F250 for the next load of scrap to go out. I used the dolly with some help to move the good engine over to a staging spot in front of the new Tracker. I moved the crane over the engine and hooked it up with the balancer to get the unit off the ground and level. This of course is so I can pull off the things I need to prep the engine for installation. I need to pull the flywheel in order to reach the crank sensor (Whoever thought this was a smart place to put a sensor needs to be hung by his nuts). I also want to pull the oil pan so I can check the oil pickup to make sure its not clogged with shit, like the dead engine was. I figured the clogged oil pickup caused the engine to eventually run dry enough that everything seized up on the thing. I DO NOT want this to happen with the good engine, seeing that finding parts for this truck is hard as hell! I attempted to source a replacement crank sensor from Auto Zone and they didn't even list one, so that lead me to Ebay. Of course since I'm trying to source an electrical component online, I definitely can't skimp on this. Also with the shitty location of the sensor, I only get one shot at this. If I put a bullshit sensor in this engine then reassemble it only to find the sensor is some shit, then we're looking at pulling the transmission and flywheel, from under the fucking truck, to replace the damn thing, versus replacing it when the engine is dangling outside under a crane, able to be worked on from all angles. So yeah, I'm gonna source an OEM sensor for this shit. I found an AC Delco unit on ebay, cost a little better than $90 so I'm gonna have to roll with that. I will also need to replace the front seal on the transmission since I did a lot of yanking trying to free the torque converter from the transmission while it was bolted to the dead engine. I figure that if anything was compromised it would be that front seal. Just like with the crank sensor, the last thing I wanna find out after reassembling everything is that the seal is going to leak all over the place while the engine is running. So yeah, this shit needs replacing too. Once I get those parts installed, it'll all be downhill from there.....
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