Hangar 9K Blog: Swap Talk part 1

Todays Sky

Today I was off from work because my wife had a dentist appointment, so I wanted to go with her. It was a great morning to sleep because it was drizzling rain, dark, and gloomy. We came home, I sit down, went out in the garage and looked at the car because I drove it yesterday for the last time down the street and back to get motivated. The surgery started at 1053 in the morning, I worked on it for about 4 hours just taking my time. I have pulled the transmission a few times and about everything else but never have I pulled an F series out. I wanted to try and not shoot my self in the foot so I was very meticulous on labeling the harness and inspecting everything as I removed it. I talked to a guy about doing the swap and he recommended instead of lowering the subframe and lowering the steering rack like I do for the transmission that instead, I remove everything. Accessories and harness and prep the transmission for removal like normal, then hook the engine lift to the engine and lower it down through the subframe cut out, then taking the bell house loose, slide the engine back, then lift the engine out through the top. Plan set. Surprisingly things went without a hitch minus draining the radiator, it seems no matter how hard you try that shit goes everywhere and....the exhaust manifold the Innovative Mounts really fucks you with a J's header because the only way to get it out or in is to loosen the mount so instead I just pulled the exhaust studs and it barely came out. I'm just taking my time all and all because there is no rush at this point, the plan is to finish the last few things up in the engine compartment up top that you can't see, close the fire wall under the intake manifold and then use another session to prep everything underneath, but you never know, I may do it all at once.