Sharky146
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- Joined
- May 12, 2020
- Messages
- 65
- Reaction score
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- Points
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- Location
- Virginia Beach, VA
- Vehicle Year
- 2001
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger XLT
- Engine Type
- 4.0 V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum and have a quick question.
I recently bought a 1999 Ranger XLT 3.0L 2WD. It needed a motor, so I picked up a used 3.0L from a wrecked 2007 Ranger. I pulled the original motor and tranny together and intend to reinstall them together as well. I put all the top end and accessories from my old motor onto the "new" motor so that my existing wiring harness and vacuum system would plug back up nicely.
It's almost ready to go back in the truck, but I'm having a problem with mating the motor with the transmission. When I try to get them together, I can only get them to within about half an inch of each other. I feel like maybe I'm not properly seating the torque converter into the transmission. Is there a trick to this? Should the stud (don't know what it's actually called) on the front of the torque converter be flush with the bell housing, or protruding slightly? The best I've been able to do is to get it so that the stud is prodtruding about an 1/8 inch outside the bell housing.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
- Sharky146
Here's a picture of the back of the motor and the "stud" on the torque converter. The pic is of just the torque converter outside of the transmission.
I recently bought a 1999 Ranger XLT 3.0L 2WD. It needed a motor, so I picked up a used 3.0L from a wrecked 2007 Ranger. I pulled the original motor and tranny together and intend to reinstall them together as well. I put all the top end and accessories from my old motor onto the "new" motor so that my existing wiring harness and vacuum system would plug back up nicely.
It's almost ready to go back in the truck, but I'm having a problem with mating the motor with the transmission. When I try to get them together, I can only get them to within about half an inch of each other. I feel like maybe I'm not properly seating the torque converter into the transmission. Is there a trick to this? Should the stud (don't know what it's actually called) on the front of the torque converter be flush with the bell housing, or protruding slightly? The best I've been able to do is to get it so that the stud is prodtruding about an 1/8 inch outside the bell housing.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
- Sharky146
Here's a picture of the back of the motor and the "stud" on the torque converter. The pic is of just the torque converter outside of the transmission.
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