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James is recovering from surgery still, a little better each day, was able to go to town a couple of times and got his stitches out!
Next appointment coming up next week to start treatments..
I spent some time wiring up the sport trac, doing the plumbing, exhaust and more....then finally got to prime the fuel system a couple of times, bump the starter and it fired right up...more on that later
here's some teaser pics
Had to build H pipe to merge exhaust, this connects the 2000 5.0 exhaust pipes to the stock 2002 sport trac muffler and tail pipe
Worked out perfectly
Changed out the spark plugs, wowee I think these might be the factory plugs at 149K miles!!
HUGE gap
double spec for 5.0 (0.054")
Finished the wiring 98% still waiting on the 02 wiring book to arrive to confirm two small wires....oil pressure to dash and ground wire to AC high pressure switch
See the alternator wires in place?
Just like most 95-05 5.0 swaps gotta move the tachometer ground wire from the 4.0 pos to the 5.0 pos so the tach will read the v8 properly
black w yellow moves from one plug to the other
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I build custom RBV, specializing in drivetrain conversions, wiring, suspension and complete custom trucks