Well got the motor fired up Thursday! Finally back on the road!

Finally got the new engine in. Still have some work to do to get it running again. But should have it going by this weekend!!!

S00TLYFE wrote:also motor looks good. what up from a fellow native Oregonian, although im about 800 miles south of you now

Thanks. I'm pretty excited about it! Finally get to start working on the Bronco this weekend. Hopefully I'll have it running by next weekend. I'm really sick of driving borrowed vehicles!!!

This is the new motor. Lol. 351w from S&J engines in Spokane.

So the Gorilla has been down for several months now. Blew a head gasket. Now this is happening.

Yeah for sure. It's nice to be able to just get in it and have it start! And now that the seat isn't all wobbly it is much nicer to drive! Also was having issues with the cruise control turning off and the torque converter unlocking every time I hit the left turn signal. figured out that was because...

Gotta love that kind of high quality workmanship right?

So spent Sunday working on the GFG. Been having issues with it starting and my seat bracket keeps breaking. Figured out the battery had a hole in it, the terminals were both broken, and the starter solenoid on my Power Master starter needed to be rebuilt. Got another battery, installed new terminals...

So I got to spend New Years Eve working on the Bronco. Blew a heater core on the way to work and had to get it swapped out. At least Ford made it easy to get to. Only took an hour. Everything else I've done a heater core in took all day!

After dealing with the trans not shifting right for over a year, I have found the solution. I am almost embarrassed to admit the problem. Turns out it was my led tail light bulbs causing the torque converter to not lock up. Put in standard 3157 bulbs in last night, shift like a champ now!

I've had it a couple years now. It's been shifting like this for about a year and a half. Drive it everyday. I have a parts bronco with a c6 I had intended to swap in, but the more I think about it, the more overdrive sounds appealing. I haven't tried pulling the codes. I should do that.

The OD light is not flashing. I don't know about the mlps sensor. I have not done anything to it. I have had a diesel with the e4od but that never did anything quite like I'm describing with the rpms. Also if I accelerate hard right from the start, keep my foot hard in it through all shifts, it will...

So I am hoping someone here has maybe run into this issue before and may have an idea what the solution is. My 1990 has the E4OD and the 351. When I accelerate the 1st to 2nd shift is normal. 2nd to 3rd and third to OD shifts rev high before engaging the next gear and the rpms are higher than they s...

Any 5x shirts left?

Ok . will do.

Thanks guys. I'm pleased with it. Not bad for my first try. dtdback sorry I haven't gotten back to you on the brackets. Been really busy.

So this weekends project was a new rear bumper. I'm pretty stoked on how it turned out considering it's my first attempt at building a bumper.

Sure, for the right price. might be a little bit of time before I get to the point of getting them pulled though.

Don't plan on it. Going c&t. Going to use the radius arms and coils for now though I think.

So I picked up number 3 Sunday. A 1989 Eddie Bauer. Lots or good parts to harvest off it. Came with a Rancho 4 inch lift with extended radius arms, a premo hood (mines in bad shape), but most important is the c6 trans.