Starting a new thread as I couldn’t find one specific to this issue. This is kind of a continuation of a different thread of a replacement of a 2LTE that I posted on an update recently.
My issue is this: I can’t get the engine re installed completely, it’s about a 1/4 in from mating up with the bell housing. The alignment pins look fine and I have most of the bolts started but it’s at a point where I don’t wanna crank on something and force or break something else. A guy helping me cranked on the bolt that goes to the lower starter mount and broke that, fortunately I have a replacement from my original engine.
It should be noted that this engine while being also a 2lte came out of a 99 MarkII Chaser. The only thing left other than the block from that engine is the starter, injection pump and intake manifold, everything else was swapped over from the original engine. The one thing I’m not sure of is the torque converter, I didn’t remove that off of either engine and they are two different sizes. I put the larger of the two on as I figured it needed to be larger for the bigger vehicle.
The transmission was not removed when the engine was pulled. We tried installing the torque converter first on the transmission but that didn’t seem to work so we pulled it back out and mounted the torque converter onto the starter/flywheel and tried that and that’s where I’m at now.
My issue is this: I can’t get the engine re installed completely, it’s about a 1/4 in from mating up with the bell housing. The alignment pins look fine and I have most of the bolts started but it’s at a point where I don’t wanna crank on something and force or break something else. A guy helping me cranked on the bolt that goes to the lower starter mount and broke that, fortunately I have a replacement from my original engine.
It should be noted that this engine while being also a 2lte came out of a 99 MarkII Chaser. The only thing left other than the block from that engine is the starter, injection pump and intake manifold, everything else was swapped over from the original engine. The one thing I’m not sure of is the torque converter, I didn’t remove that off of either engine and they are two different sizes. I put the larger of the two on as I figured it needed to be larger for the bigger vehicle.
The transmission was not removed when the engine was pulled. We tried installing the torque converter first on the transmission but that didn’t seem to work so we pulled it back out and mounted the torque converter onto the starter/flywheel and tried that and that’s where I’m at now.
