Bringing her from the grave

[SnuffThePunkz]

Well, it's been a minute, a few minutes actually since I parked my expedition.

Have a job in the Canadian oilfield and need to get my dumb lifted dually out of the way with winter coming so I figured I'd grab something just as stupid and have some fun again.

Lil back story, 97 EB
3" body lift and keys turned. She was on 37's but they went to another truck when the transmission gave up.
Swapped the transmission and bent the flywheel (moron I know) and she's kinda Sat for the last few years.

Always fires up within a crank or two.

I'm on days off and hopefully fingers crossed I'll drive her to Alberta Friday morning.

 

[SnuffThePunkz]

To do list
-clean demons from interior
-fly wheel
-injectors
-plugs
-coils
-oil change
-winter tires
-reinstall sound system
-grill guard

-nice head unit/sub?
-lift kit? Here's hoping.

 

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Definitely should have grabbed a before photo, but I traded some tools for my buddy to get high and detail the truck.





New floor mats will be here tonight. Looked at husky floor liners. Like $120usd and 3-4 weeks out.

Amazon? $32 CAD and like two day shipping.

 

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Jacked up starting to pull the transmission now. Hoping weather holds well enough. Have rain and even snow in the forecast. Super lame.

 

[SnuffThePunkz]

Things have gone poorly.

I've got the transmission disconnected, and enough space to pull the flywheel. But not enough to torque the new one on.

The bracket I need pulled is the torsion bar bracket. Super gay. So now I'm pulling my front end apart playing a game of mouse trap with things that want to strip and break.

 

[jr1under]

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[SnuffThePunkz]

That was the nicer seat I got from a wrecker lol.

I'm eyeballing the Carhartt ones if they still make them for this generation.

Definitely don't plan on keeping her clean. Doing the math on regearing and lockers vs SAS. I've only seen one kit done well but that's a D44. I'm definitely feeling 38"+ for summer tires.

The lift got delayed till spring, just don't have the timeline I need currently.

Did end yesterday on a win though.

 

[SnuffThePunkz]

Well, today has been a fight.
Got the torsion bar bracket out.

Then still couldn't get enough space till I finally walked over to the passenger side and clearly saw the transmission cooler lines... Well with that loosened, wouldn't you believe it. She slid back.

Got the old flywheel off, then tried like 4 different positions till I remembered the fly wheel would be balanced and keyed only one way. Worked really well after that.

Fought the torsion bar bracket for a while, swore to and at future, current and long dead gods.

Was much easier in my f150 7700 when pulling the bracket to put the lift in.

Now she's going back together.

 

[SnuffThePunkz]

Got tired of laying on my back getting pissed on, so I put some body panels on and lined up the hood, and installed the bug deflector.

I totally didn't half install the fender before I remembered the antenna cable or anything...