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Russell only has one sohc and that's his daily... The other is in the company car.

So option A, then.

Or D I could just wait till I have money to do the r&d

Since I didn't have enough lunch money for the sohc the ohv went back in the truck for now.

So I have Russell working I some wiring for the manual trans swap on stripe while I'm painting the valve covers.

Looking good. Russell must be a handy guy to have around.

He is handy to have around...

Curious as to the reason you went with purple? Parts look good, what kind of paint are you using?

What's wrong with purple?

Nothing, I was just curious.

Well this truck has purple carpet and purple piping on the seats so Im just bringing the purple out to the exterior too.

Oh and I I found "plum purple" high temp engine paint at O'Reillys

What's different with the wiring between the automatic and manual setups? Does the auto computer require input from the A4LD? Does the manual computer require input from the manual trans?

Actually yes Randall on both accounts. But most first gens are wired for both auto and manual you would just change the harness for the transmission and you are golden. But sadly this is a limited and ford didn't pre wire first gen limiteds for manual trans. So to keep the PCM from freaking out and make it work like a stock explorer with manual trans we needed to add a few circuits that the limited was missing and delete a few and add a couple 20 ohm resistors. To trick the PCM to think it still has the auto trans in place.

Didn't we do something similar to trick mine into thinking the auto was still in place?

I'm pretty sure we did but I can't remember.

Yeah, me neither.

So now shooting for a possible starting of stripe on weds depending on my funds. I know we will have the trans bolted in this weekend.

Nice. First it will have run since..?

Got off work an hour ago and started work on stripe... Oh and I'm posting this from under the truck.

I installed the new rear main seal.



Installed flywheel



And the center force

Shiny.

So last night before bed I got the transmission, transfercase and starter in the truck. Tomorrow ill be working on getting the exhaust done, crossmember, driveshafts and the top end of the motor.

Manual t-case, correct? Where do you keep finding those things?

They show up at wrench a part more often then you think. There is a 93 xlt out at wap right now with an automatic trans and manual transfercase. The explorer I got this transfer case out of was a black 91 Eddie Bauer with a manual trans and transfercase. And it was factory installed.