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Motor swap with 2.9


88broncII

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Pulled the motor outa my 88 bronco and replacing it with another 2.9, my problem is I can't get the dang new motor bolt back up to my transmission. Any ideas? Iv been trying for hours
 


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Did you put your old flexplate or flywheel onto the replacement engine? If you pulled a flexplate and put on a flywheel, did you remove the spacer on the crankshaft? If you have a manual tranny, did you use a clutch alignment tool to center it? If an automatic, did you first put the torque converter onto the tranny to get it fully inserted?
 

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Also iirc the pilot bearing are different sizes for different make of transmissions. There was (iirc) 3 diff transmissions that were in Rangers. I can't remember all of them off the top of my head or the pilot bearing sizes.


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