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- Caledonia, Ontario
- Vehicle Year
- 1990
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- 5.0L
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- Automatic
I did it with pretty shitty body mounts. The trick is to find the narrowest portion of the bellhousing... what i mean is the bellhousings obviously not round and has a sweet spot where, when on its side, is shorter than the rest.The Ford service proceedure calls for REMOVING the Y-pipe when the tranmission is to be removed from these vehicles.
Yes it's POSSIBLE to do the job without removing the Y-pipe but if the body mounts are even the least little bit collapased you are basically screwed.
BTW, when parting out a vehicle ALWAYS save the catalytic converter!
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If after you unbolt the transmission you twist it around it will clear the y-pipe with little effort if you have a tranny jack. It expecially helps to try this is your exhaust manifold studs look like toothpicks and theres not much of a nut left.
I did it in my 91 explorer in the backyard with cinder blocks and one of those old gm emergency jacks. I mostly manhandled it out on my belly.