1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

You’d swap a ford transmission in?

 

Think of finding her like it's a hunt...stalk your prey, set up your traps and move in

 

You're describing date rape....

 

Ima pass

 

I think thats a ford 4x4 transmission, for the 3.5

 

Yeah that metaphor didn't really work out so well.

 

Trash engine. Water pump is inside the engine. When it fails it washes your bearings out with coolant or fails completely and you bend valves

 

After that it’s worth about 950 I guess

 

buy trans, get a free junk engine

 

4.0 doesnt have they shitty water pump design. other than the water pump the ford 3.5 would be a great engine

 

toyota 4.0 timing chain setup
center pulley is just an idler and its got a massive bearing
Ford 3.5 timing chain setup

damn near identical setup, but with terrible water pump placement. center pulley sits on a much smaller bearing so over time with chain tension it wears and creates shaft play allowing coolant to pass by into the oil, so much play can occur that it'll jump time

 

the 4.0 is fine.. to get rid of the water pump in a ford 3.5 you'd need some pretty good custom work going on. its critical to timing chain tension and control

 

still surprised how much the ford 3.5 matches the toyota 4.0.... its like they straight up copied it but changed the cooling system to call it their own.

only difference is one works, the other is spoty.

 

So ford learned from the Chinese

 

Speaking of kidnapping, we have a van just like yours parked down on the end of our street for street last few weeks. But its windows are covered over and have hand painted lettering for Handyman services. Gets sketchier by the day.

 

Oh sorry. Thats your street? Ill move it

 

Except the one here is registered and therefore passed smog

 

Unless he is paying someone off