Project Molly the Mall Crawler

[WNY964x4]

mines gonna be down till christmas or later , plus i still have to order the heavier duty torsion bars and swap them out , got a little ways left to go , i still gotta get the tires , and st up my CB system in it , so i am shooting for like next may , when i am out of college till august

 

[WNY964x4]

well , my heads are shot , i cannot get the valve seats done right , all te intakes are good , the exhausts are shot , so i am ordering new ones from Alabama Cylinder Head , and i really have no ambition for anything right now , so , eh , whatever

 

[RangerSVT]

Did you check and see if Edelbrock or someone has a performance head you can get?? When you got the 4.0L for replacing your 3.slo, did you consider doing the V8 swap instead??
SVT

 

[WNY964x4]

i did consider a V8 swap , but i am a fan of the 4.0 and i like keeping it as it could have ben optioned at the fctory , plus i didnt feel like putting in the effort to the 5.0 swap , this cylinder head issue it the first major problem i have run into during this build , and by now i have so much sunk into this truck i cannot switch directions

 

[WNY964x4]

two new pictures from before break

engine partially assembled

 

[NMB2]

lookin good man!

 

[WNY964x4]

lookin good man!

thanks , it has been a long road , and it is nowhere near finished , the engone will be gettin finished the end of january , then the engine and trans are going in as one unit , then the new core support is going in , 1 day at a time

and i just went through and re organized the entire thread

 

[WNY964x4]

Engine Progress

4.0 SOHC Pan

Heads and Intake on and properly torqued

Side View

Mock-Up of the basic engine assembly

more next week

 

[RangerSVT]

Lookin great, keep em coming
SVT

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

that motor looks amazingly familiar, exept its 1.0l larger? motors lookin awesome and good thinking on putting it all in as one unit, it makes it so much easier when the core support is out, i put mine in all by myself on new years eve since my friends were partying and no where to be found. im going to be keeping my eye on this build!

 

[RangerSVT]

i put mine in all by myself on new years eve since my friends were partying and no where to be found

Yeah, you know who your real friends are when it comes down to the work
SVT

 

[WNY964x4]

well the rocker shaft bolts came into the dealership today , i have to go home tomorrow to get some dental work done so i am gonna get them then , then finally start finishin her up and hopefully have her in the truck next week

and OffRoad , thanks for the comment , your build was a big inspiration for mine

 

[WNY964x4]

time for updates , some progress , i have been hindered by my own stupidity , i had tow boxes with gaskets , so i took the inside packaging out of the one with the couple gaskets left and put that on the bench , the other box had bigger gaskets like valve cover and upper intake gaskets , but the boxes were identical sizewise , and guess which one i threw out , i will give you a hint , it was not the empty one , and some how my crank pulley bolt disappeared

pics

driver side

passenger side

headers on

that is all for now

 

[jaymegriffiths]

time for updates , some progress , i have been hindered by my own stupidity , i had tow boxes with gaskets , so i took the inside packaging out of the one with the couple gaskets left and put that on the bench , the other box had bigger gaskets like valve cover and upper intake gaskets , but the boxes were identical sizewise , and guess which one i threw out , i will give you a hint , it was not the empty one , and some how my crank pulley bolt disappeared



that is all for now

nice build dude i like the detail and keep the pics comin

 

[Downey]

what did you do with that extra y pipe you had?