New engine

[91oldblue]

Question for y'all, i have a 91 ranger extended cab 2wd with a 5spd 3.0, the truck has 193,XXX miles, and the old engine nocked like a SOB, so I bought a used engine from the local scrap yard for $100 out of a 95 taurus, the engine I bought has 90,XXX miles.

Did I do the right thing?

 

[adsm08]

try running mid-grade. If it still knocks, drop it in, see what happens.

 

[ati190]

You can't just throw a Taurus engine in your truck without a little modification. You need a new head gasket (RWD, and FWD head gaskets are different), or just flip the one you have. But if I were doing that, I would just go with a new one, and some new head bolts.

 

[heptofite]

You can't just throw a Taurus engine in your truck without a little modification. You need a new head gasket (RWD, and FWD head gaskets are different), or just flip the one you have. But if I were doing that, I would just go with a new one, and some new head bolts.

that's curious, how could a head gasket affect engine clearance to bolt to a rwd transmission?

 

[Original_Ranger84]

that's curious, how could a head gasket affect engine clearance to bolt to a rwd transmission?

The cooling passages are different between the FWD and RWD because of the different setups. thats basically it.

Is the old engine like having a valvetrain tapping or like marbles in your engine all the time?

 

[91oldblue]

the knock was like a knock from a scored piston, so I put the new taurus engine in and she is running like a champ now, with a little help from a gasket kit, and my dad being a ford mechanic for 23 years, it was pretty easy

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Like detonation sounds? I have no clue what a scored piston sounds like... lol