4.0

[4.0B2]

ok, so you know your ignition wire is not getting hot...
look for the red wire with the blue stripe, follow it back and find out where the power starts/stops.. When I did my 4.0 swap, I remember having to do something with that wire... just don't remember what lol. that was like 6 years ago

 

[shadow88]

Red wire with blue stripe from where?

 

[4.0B2]

Red wire with blue stripe from where?

its the wire with the little 90 degree push in to the solenoid that gets hot when you turn the key to the start position. let me go grab my book

 

[shadow88]

Ok now I know what your talking about, So your saying that wire has no power,

 

[shadow88]

And my battery light is on and I don't think my battery is charging, in going to check more connections, the big round plug by the alt was real hard to go together

 

[4.0B2]

check the connector, make sure it's plugged in right.. .and make sure the pins in the plugs match up to what they need to on the other side

 

[shadow88]

Everything is pluged in and clean, this motor came from a truck with a auto tranny, the wire harness and computer are from a truck with a manual, my truck is a manual, could my problem be that the nutral safety switch isn't working? The wire harness on the motor has plugs that go to the trans that I can't hook up because they're for the auto trans

 

[kryptonitecb]

The harness for the 4.0's are the same auto or manual. I noticed mine had extra plugs as well when I replaced the slave, they won't effect anything.

Sent from the road while ignoring traffic

 

[shadow88]

Even the the harness that's on the motor itself ? The one that plugs into the injectors and such?

 

[snoranger]

Everything is pluged in and clean, this motor came from a truck with a auto tranny, the wire harness and computer are from a truck with a manual, my truck is a manual, could my problem be that the nutral safety switch isn't working? The wire harness on the motor has plugs that go to the trans that I can't hook up because they're for the auto trans

That could be your problem. The manual trans extension harness has a jumper that connects the 2 wires that usually go to the trans range sensor, to allow it to crank in park or neutral. These 2 wires (I dont remember the colors.) need to be jumped together for it to crank.

 

[shadow88]

Ok there are two plugs, I'm thinking it's the one with two wires

 

[adsm08]

I'd look up the wires for you, but Ford's site seems to be making IE crash on this computer lately.

 

[adsm08]

Ok there are two plugs, I'm thinking it's the one with two wires

No, I know that is wrong. the 4 wire plug goes to the trans range sensor.

 

[shadow88]

Give me a sec and I'll post pics of them

 

[shadow88]