The engine/trans swap almost done. I have not had much time to work on it, but I should be driving it this weekend.

I had a b1tch of a time bleeding the clutch, turned out that the master I installed with my pedal asm had some gunk in it, plugging it. I had another one so i took it apart and cleaned it up, seems in good shape so i will run it for now. Its all bled and functioning best I can tell. I do regret not replacing both slave and master but will leave it alone for now. PITA to change those!

The DS is 20 3/4" long and fits perfect. I used a shaft with a balancer/damper thing on the front. I did not get it balanced, the shop that did it is very good but does not balance. I wanted to test fit it before balancing and decided i might as well try it as is.

Shift rods are shortened and installed. I ended up shortening/sleeving them and did not mess with cutting threads. Came out nice, shifts good, new bushings etc.

Work done:

Fr main seal

check vacuum pump, seemed like new, bearing good so just reinstalled it with new gasket

turbo drain seals

oil filter housing gaskets

new oil cooler lines

valve adj

check T chain stretch (none)

rebuilt lift pump

all new hoses, t stat, reseal t stat housing

new belts

New clutch - decided not to install the used one since this car will be pretty hard on clutch w/2:88 R (?)

Carrier bearing/rubber

New engine mounts, shocks were fine

240D auto Xmember, 300TD mount

New exhaust front to back

Chilled the pilot bearing for a week and tapped it into 85 crank (went right in Junyarddog!)

Cleaned/popped injectors w/bosio's form other engine

New GP's

new water pump

cleaned engine. trans, under hood, still needs more but looking good enough for the work horse that it is.

return lines new


I still need to do the following:

Rr sls links

install exhaust

redo some fuel system related stuff

wire reverse lights to switch and wire starter safety to clutch pedal (since my kids tend to play with keys in the ign).

Steering box!!!


car has rebuilt front end, SD vented brakes, 2:88R. Should be nice if I do not get vibrations from engine/driveline! Should run it this weekend, no time to look at it until Sat AM. I'll post some pics soon.