OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH yeah I love new tools. I am sure you will find that sucker as handy as we find "Hank"
The Dewalt has taken on the name Hank around here and Hank is pretty dang handy and strong.

Installed a woodstove, building a huge carport, and gathering 12 cords of firewood for the coming winter season (coming quickly here) Also close no our first rental house this week...aside from that the parts for the sport trac are here!! Wooo hoooo!

New Dorman exhaust manifolds, cast style. $95 shipped is easier then trying to steal some from another engine or find some in the yard that will come free easily...so we are going to use these! Our donor engine is an early 98 so it has the old welded manifolds and I refuse to install those into our sport trac



Otherwise its just some simple tune up parts, remember before the donor truck was wrecked it was in my shop for a full tune up and fluid changes, with just 104K on the clock this drivetrain does not need much!
PArts are here
Sport trac is cleaned and prepped.
We can finally get back on the sport trac



Packard wire ignition wires (I love these sets, they hold up really well and wires are very good for the $$$ on rockauto)
Bosch air filter
Wix trans filter
Motorcraft plugs
We will also change out the fuel filter and pump, as well as all new fluids through out.
I also have a 2001 fuel rail and injectors to install on the 98 engine, I will be bench cleaning and testing each injector. Entire fuel rail will get new O rings.

Sport trac prep:
Drivers side engine mount was swapped out
V8 power steering cooler also installed
Now we will strip down/clean the 5.0 engine and trans and stab them into the truck

Stay tuned!

Last edited on Wed Oct 3rd, 2018 09:53 am by 410customs