We were pleasantly surprised when we received a call from the freight terminal that our new JDM engine would be coming through, about a week earlier than posted, that the piece had arrived. I quickly made my way to the terminal with the S10 to pick up the engine on its pallet. After getting back home, the first thing I had to do was disassemble and move the engine crane from the 84 F150 and set it up over the S10 where I parked it, in front of the Scion. I was in the process of getting ready to pull the 351/C6 from the F150 when we got the word the engine was here. With the crane staged, I removed the plastic to survey the engine and see what I was working with. Surprisingly, most of everything that we were concerned with being missing were in place. The timing cover was there, the water tube for the thermostat was there, the power steering pump (and that broken sensor) are there. Even the intake manifold was in place, even though the throttle body was different. Apparently when the engine was removed, instead of removing the intake to remove the wire harness, the scrappers cut the whole wire harness and left everything plugged up. So of course, since I have to swap throttle bodies, I figured it would just be easier to remove the whole intake, which would have to be removed anyway to place the Scion's wire harness. I was able to remove the cut wire harness and toss it aside, I'll probably save this just in case something happens to the Scion's wiring at any point where the sensor and other component plugs are located. This will allow me to make repairs using the plugs on this scrap harness instead of trying to source replacement electrical plugs from a junkyard car. Another thing that I had to do before I can lift the engine out of the truck was install the "front" engine mount bracket, as I used this as an anchor point for one of the chains. Since the timing cover was the exact same as what we had, this was all I had to do, lucky me. I bolted the bracket back on and got the chain looped around this as well as the double chain on the other end to hook up to the engine crane. With that, I cut the suspension wires holding the engine to the pallet and jacked the engine up off the pallet. After pulling the truck forward, I had the engine on the ground. Now, one thing that I did have to replace was the valve cover. It had a small piece of the top broken off, probably during transport, or maybe even when the engine was initially pulled. Luckily we had the valve cover from the other engine so this was no big deal to replace. Of course because the valve cover was damaged, I had to make sure I pulled all the fragments from the lifter valley so these do not pose a problem later when the engine is started. After removing all that, I installed the old valve cover and the coils. I left the intake off since that can't be installed until after the engine is 2/3 the way in and I can secure the wire harness to the side of the block behind the intake. With the engine more or less ready for reinstall, the next move will be to get the car staged just in front of the engine. I already turned the crane around so it will be ready. I just have to reattach the chains so I can get the thing lifted up, as I winch the car forward under the swinging engine. Hopefully with the experience gained from removing the engine, I'll be able to reinstall everything, knowing just what I have to do to get things put back together in sequence to make the reinstallation go much faster than the extraction.
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