How hard can it be?

[snoranger]

Actually installing the engine is one thing, making everything work right is another.
Do you have to pass emissions where you live? Do you want to go fuel injected or just drop a carb'd 289 in?
Give us all the details and the questions you need answered... we will help.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

68 289- 195hp/288ftlb. Grantd those are SAE gross. A 4.0 might be close under SAE net.

As far as the 2.9...its only the best engine ever dropped between a set of fenders. It has mythical, chuck norris like properties that make it inpervious to abuse and capable of ridiculious, herculeon feats of strength.

 

[Josh B]

Wow, a two page introductory post! This is getting serious, hahaha

 

[Dirtman]

Don't listen to Dirtman.

Actual photo of the first 2.9 ever built.

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Is that because it died? Or is god saving humanity from it?

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Is that because it died? Or is god saving humanity from it?

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That's uh... That's Moses delivering the true word of that God fella.

 

[Dirtman]

Ohhhhh... so more like...

 

[snoranger]

68 289- 195hp/288ftlb. Grantd those are SAE gross. A 4.0 might be close under SAE net.

As far as the 2.9...its only the best engine to remove from between a set of fenders. It has no liked properties, and that makes us abuse the owner and ridicule him.

Let me fix that.

 

[Josh B]

How hard can it be I'd guess comes down to how hard are those bolts to twist, and how well can you put them back together.
I've been in a lot of fields sir, including a cottonfield when I was 5 (made 35 cents that day, enough to pay my own way into a movie theater to see the first showing of Pinochio , and buy a ten cent coke) and it always comes down to what can you do, how well can you do it, and how badly do you want to

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Let me fix that.

Youre swapping in a 4bt. Therefore your opinion is invalid. Let us know though how long till that bread delivering smoke machine rattles your teeth loose though will ya?

 

[Uncle Gump]

It's certainly doable... 289 with some money invested... carb'd… C4 and a gear... a handful of autometer gauges... make it stick and it would be fun to rip around town on a Saturday night. Wouldn't be a daily driver but a cool cruise night toy.

As snoranger said... details.

Welcome to TRS...

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

It's certainly doable... 289 with some money invested... carb'd… C4 and a gear... a handful of autometer gauges... make it stick and it would be fun to rip around town on a Saturday night. Wouldn't be a daily driver but a cool cruise night toy.

As snoranger said... details.

Welcome to TRS...

Oh yeah, this has been a proper TRS welcome.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Dirtman]

Its not a proper welcome until someone poops in the furnace.

 

[snoranger]

Youre swapping in a 4bt. Therefore your opinion is invalid. Let us know though how long till that bread delivering smoke machine rattles your teeth loose though will ya?

I sold that Explorer and bought my daughter a side by side (she keeps saying it's hers. She's 9, who am I to say no and crush her dreams.)... but I still have the bread delivering smoke machine.

I thought about coming to the 20th anniversary and bringing this thing (my 4/5 drop Ranger isn't very off-road friendly), but the place doesn't allow them.

 

[adsm08]

It's certainly doable... 289 with some money invested... carb'd… C4 and a gear... a handful of autometer gauges... make it stick and it would be fun to rip around town on a Saturday night. Wouldn't be a daily driver but a cool cruise night toy.

As snoranger said... details.

Welcome to TRS...

How many transmissions do you want this guy to cram in his truck?

 

[adsm08]

Its not a proper welcome until someone poops in the furnace.

When did we get a furnace?