Finally yanked the motor from my free car. Pic!

[Hardwareman]

Well some of you know that my neighbor gave me a free 1996 Mercury Mistake and it needed a tranny. All that worked was reverse. This car is such a pain to work on it's ridiculous! You can't pull the tranny from underneath unless you remove the entire subframe!

I had no option but to remove the entire engine and trans as a whole and then unbolt and replace the tranny on a bench! Well here she is finally:

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There is so much S**T that has to be removed just to get this thing out! It's really shoehorned in there. I'm selling this damn thing as soon as it's done man! Hopefully I can have this done by the end of the week. Later.




Allen

 

[RobbieD]

What a pain. Thank God for good old pickup trucks!

 

[Hardwareman]

No doubt!

If it was my trusty Ranger I could have swapped either or in a day and called it done....hahaha. Don't know what Ford was thinking when they designed this one.



Allen

 

[Sevensecondsuv]

Yeah, we had one of those. The 2.5 Duratec V6 are nice engines. They've got lots of HP and you can really spin them. Unfortunately the auto trannies they came bolted too were a total disapointment. I agree with you about shoehorned in there, that was by far the tightest car I've ever worked on. Those Contours are nice, the handling blows away any other car in it's class. Too bad they never really caught on.

I also replaced a tranny in a '99 Pontiac Bonneville. I had to remove the subframe assembly. By the time it was out there were only 2 bolts and one jackstand keeping the engine in. Pretty much standard procedure for replacing the trans in a FWD. Got it all back together and it's still working perfectly 12,000 miles later. Good luck with yours.

 

[metalmacguyver]

No doubt!

If it was my trusty Ranger I could have swapped either or in a day and called it done....hahaha. Don't know what Ford was thinking when they designed this one.



Allen

they were probably thinking the same thing as when they designed the new superdutys with the remove cab to replace serpentine belt deal.