Ended up gettin' old motor completely out today, start to finish and started stripping other motor which came out of a 91 4x4 S10. My garage looks like an episode of Overhaulin, big pile of unsued parts =D> I had to pull TC out also as I couldn't turn motor over to get all the convertor bolts. I also learned from my brother in law who owns a shop and has to watch labor, remove the least if possible, but in this case, most of stuff needed to come off. I would have liked to drop subframe and rolled out front, but couldn't get it high enough in garage, so intake had to come off so I could get cherry picker low enough to pull out front and it was a tight fit.For those of you newer people who might not know, I bought this van from Skippy 2 yrs ago in hopes of a V8 conversion, things changed. He bought it from an old AS.com member, but never took physical possession of it as PO lived in Cleveland, Chops stored it for SKip, I picked it up in Cleveland from Chops. The PO said there was coolant in motor, started removing top end. I saw no evidence of coolant when I removed intake or valve covers. I tried with all my might to turn motor over once I got it out, no go. I decided to pull spark plugs.....Uh oh, found the problem...rusty water came rushing out of one of the holes, must have blown a head gasket and leaked into cyl. Guess that motor is junk.
Have to get some degreaser, hose down donor motor, then swap parts and back in. I will try to update as I go, but being layed off, I need to buy new gaskets, oil pump, and oh, frame motor mounts are shot so those need changed..it maybe a few weeks, month before I update again, least I got it started.
Oh and I believe this thing must have been in a slight front end wreck on dr's side. Some of the front parts had been off and marked, lower core support had a slight bend on the one side. Didn't look like anything major, but something happened at one time.
Enjoy the pics.
Easy removable front support, 3 bolts on each side, changed to solid front in 95
gettin ready to pull
comin' out
inside view
It's out
Donor motor
