Exactly,

I pulled my Radiator, hood, and intake, and it comes out without a hitch... i left the condenser and AC pump in the truck, so that i didnt have to recharge my system as well..

I made a custom plate that bolted to my intake mouting location that had 3 different lift points based on the center of gravity of the engine... made picking it extremely easy...

 

Would you please be so kind as to post a link to the thread where we "got into it a little bit"? I've seen others make the claim that its easier to remove the cab & its always sounded preposterous to me. Please do not attempt to put this up to reader imagination "to comprehend". "No offense" but "the way you word (this) post" seems to imply I recommended it. Nothing could be further from the truth! My "feelings/thoughts" on removing the cab have remained disbelief, strictly critical & extremely dubious since the get-go. Please don't try to "Use" the juvenile cartoon icons to clarify this. Let it's advocates, who "damn sure" have done it, defend this questionable procedure. I'd deferred to others' vast & obvious experience when revisiting inquiry into the subject. Forgive me for presuming "You seem very experienced w/these pickups".

To reciprocate: "The way you word your posts makes it" sometimes impossible "to comprehend" accurately w/o a decoder ring. For instance, also on this thread, your "smilies or something" plainly "Use" words that connote the singular "a...cam" in order "to express your...thoughts" on a specific plural design that requires Two Cams.

Try to help BURNSTOUGHFORD figure out who's "being sarcastic or not" & address "can we lay this extremely dubious procedure to rest once & for all?" I've read many posts describing how uneccessarily difficult it is to pull these motors & thought its impossible to replace head gaskets in place? Somehow I doubt that "extremely easy..." covers it accurately either.

 

Well theres two of us on here that HAVE pulled the motor and posted saying its no big deal at all... So take it or leave it... I guess my opinion is if you can pull any other engine than you should have the capabilities to pull this one...

Seriously man, We have told you its no big deal and pulling the cab completely unnecessary... but what ever..

Oh and ATC is right, you are hard to understand...

 

It was the one about the what sensor the temperature gauge reads from. The head temp or the coolant temp. I haven't had a chance to experiment...I go to class all day long and work all afternoon/night...

 

I didn't think that thread got into removing the cab to do head gaskets.

However this thread (5-15) had none less than our esteemed moderator claiming it "is easier to lift the cab off" when doing a 5.4 in a discussion about replacing head gaskets.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...ly-bummin.html

My contention all along has been it appears easier to pull the motor & to "lift off the cab" sounds proposterous. My opinion is that this is the 1st design I've encountered that makes it impossible to remove the heads in place. Perhaps someone should tell the mod to "take it or leave it...completely unneccessary...what ever...hard to understand"? There are at least two on here who've claimed removing the cab is easier.

 

lol well then remove the cab man... have fun....i have done that two, when i rebuilt my truck, bought it wrecked and did a frame up on it, there isnt to many people on here that have been threw more of there truck than me...

The only things i havent done...

Been inside my engine
Removed or been inside the front axle...

Other than that i have had it out fixed it or had to move it so i could fix somthing...

But do what you want man learn the hard way...

IM out

 

Got to hand it to you, about one thing. You certainly do find it "hard to understand".

Let's hope our beneficent mod chimes in to clarify his 5-15 statement.

 

mod? you make absolutly no sense...

 

You mean LXman, ahh okay i have figured out one of your codes... lol

Hers some pics of my swap, i dont have any of the actual engine half in or out, but you can take my word for it,

 

Keep LOL. Not sure how plainly I could've made it. I'd 1st spelled out "our esteemed moderator" & posted the link directly to the thread.

Sorry if its still hard for you to understand. I apologize for using the universally known internet forum "code" word "mod" instead of repeating moderator.

What I've found makes "absolutly no sense" is anyone declaring that it "is easier to lift the cab off".

 

no but you keep implying that it might be, and a few of us are just trying to back up your speculations that its not, theres more than one mod there buddy... 3 for this particular forum and several for the entire site... just so you know

 

Not in this thread.
Not yet anyway.

 

what stall converter is that?

 

Precision Industries
I swapped in a 4R100 tranny. T/C is a 2400 stall.

 

did you swap ecu when you swaped in the 4r100?