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Originally Posted by LA02MAX
I went through about 4 cans of brake cleaner on mine haha. Pressure washing inside my garage would have been some kind of messy!
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Water cooled alternator or oil leak from the alternator bracket. Hmm, kick in junk or punch in the lips. Take your pick.
I finally started my motor swap today. I’ll update the overland thread with some pics as I go along.
Today was a half day devoted to prep. I pulled the cowl, drained the fluids (other then the front diff), labeled and detached lots of plugs and vacuum tubes, pulled the intake track entirely, pulled the splash guard and other subframe covers and dropped the middle exhaust section (headers back).
Things went smoothly other than one of the copper header nuts decided to strip. 45 min of surgery with a sawsall paid off and I was able to pound the stud back through/pry off the nut remnants.
Lots of broken and/or very fragile vacuum tubes to sort out and the need for a giant hex bit (22 mm maybe?) to pull the front diff drain plug were my lessons learned for today.
Tons of oil all over the bottom end. I suspect the oil pan covers and the rear main for starters. I also think the front diff is leaking from the casing, but can’t find a gasket on realoem for it. Anyone done this work?