Recent content by Spleen

I’m going to assume you checked the fluid, but that’s the first place to start (in park with it up to temperature). If the fluid is to level and doesn’t look dark and burnt up my next move would be to pull the vacuum line running up from the vacuum modulator on the trans and seeing if there’s...

I found out the hard way when I went to pull the lower plenum then realized some Ford engineer really thought that was a good idea.

I know this post is a few weeks old, but in case it hasn’t been pulled yet (and for those searching in the future), be advised one of the push rods on the passenger side runs up through the lower plenum casting on the intake so that push rod needs to be removed. To access the push rod that...

And please don’t mind my fart cannon! It did have a bumper exit coming off the turbo and out of the side but I didn’t want to cut another bumper cover when I had it painted and while the bumper exit surprisingly wasn’t too loud and sounded good there was annoying things about it (imagine a pipe...

Love the Lasers, the 1ga like you had was always so much cleaner and simpler looking to me than the other turbo 1g’s. I would’ve loved to do a full 1gb Laser conversion on my car but couldn’t find a front bumper cover worth working with, let alone the rear, the tail lights, and the extra body...

There’s a guy out of Sylvania Ohio offering adapter kits, Bill Hincher at https://www.billsautofab.com/ if I recall his kits are to adapt th350’s to the 4g63 but he might offer others as well. I know there’s a handful of swapped D50/Mighty Max’s out there and they use a transmission from those...

Dug back for a few more photos since you guys got me started down memory lane!

Man that takes me back! We killed a good handful of head gaskets in the younger days but I’ve never lost one. Now that I’m older and wiser I realize when we were kids it was from cranking the boost up with no way to monitor what the hell we were doing just being dumb kids lol. I’ve actually...

Look up “K&N oil filter backing off”. Not saying this happens to everyone, but after it happened to me I found a handful of guys in the modular Ford world ran into this as well as others. I don’t blame the filter per se and I know it was tight, but I’m saying it was just karma for not sticking...

Since I’m getting ready to make a thread dedicated to the Ranger’s updates I figured I’d share what’s eaten up the majority of my funds for over 10 years now. I got it as a bone stock non turbo Eclipse GS in September of 2013 and it’s been through multiple phases since including a repaint with...

Keep in mind cast pistons aren’t necessarily weak to ANY boost, when boost is in the mix knock (pre detonation) is what mainly kills pistons, not boost and cylinder pressure alone. If you were to decide to use the cast na pistons they’d probably live a good life if you were to tune on e85 and...

I meant as in changing the bell housing is more work than I’m looking to get into as if I’m going to tear it down I’d just start with the rebuild of the trucks original transmission. I could be completely wrong but it was my understanding to change the bell housing on an A4LD pretty much...

Being it came out of a 97 it would indeed be a 4r44e as 94 was the last year for the A4LD, being that electronics aren’t compatible between the 2 it wouldn’t do me any good but I do appreciate the thought.

They do tearing the whole trans down and essentially using the case from another trans, not something I’m interested in doing right now. But you are right they technically do, I like the idea of using the 4.0 internals in a 3.0 case but also more than I’m looking to get into right now.

I actually had a lead on one about 2 hours away from me through car-part, however they called me back to let me know they couldn’t find it (fair enough, appreciate them letting me know before I made the drive). I have an arrangement to pick one up tomorrow my wife found on marketplace so...