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Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700136 November 25th 2015 7:17 pm
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I really wanted the motor up in the van by the end of today (wednesday) but I'm happy with where I ended up. At least the motor is bolted up to the tranny/transfer-case, and it's sitting in front of the van finally. I'll take my buddy's massive cherry picker and pick the van up, pull it over the top of the engine, and lower it down onto jackstands. Then reach through the door with the smaller cherry picker and lift/jack it all into place.

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Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700168 November 26th 2015 12:59 pm
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Watching this build closely & interested to see how the twin stick will fit over top of the trans.

I've got a 74 e300 quadravan and I'm planning on dropping in a late model 302 to replace the stock due to a broken crankshaft. Not sure if I'll be going efi or not yet, depends what I can find for a reasonable donor.

Anyways I want a manual trans with an overdrive so I think I'm going to take the time to swap in a NV3550 from a Jeep TJ and use advanced adapters kit to mate it to the ford 302 bell housing. Its a popular swap with the bronco guys. I'll have to build some linkage for the shifter and add a clutch pedal. Also debating on running AA's kit to run the stock dana20 tcase or use the NV231 tcase out of the jeep

Anyways enough of that... keep truckin on this build, I look forward to the updates!


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Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700175 November 27th 2015 2:52 am
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The shifters tucked pretty close to the transfer case once I lowered them down a little bit. They don't hit anywhere and function really well....

I'm probably just going to put a couple pistol grip style handles on top of what's there. It looks like they will come through the floor right by the rear of the driver's seat, and sit nice and low to the floor.

Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700186 November 27th 2015 6:36 pm
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My grandpa was able to watch my son for a few hours today, so I could sneak away and tidy things up for monday. I ground down the rest of the welds on the crossmember and laid down a big ol' fatty weld to stitch it all together, I feel better about that now...

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Then I spray bombed everything. It doesn't need to be perfect, I just don't need all of that stuff rusting over...

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Here's the big HOSS-DADDY cherry picker I'm going to use to set the van down over the motor, it's friggin HUUUUUGE... I'll use the small one to reach in the door and pick the motor up..

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Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700199 November 27th 2015 10:25 pm
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A little off topic, but I love the Nova sedan in the background.

Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700203 November 27th 2015 11:50 pm
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That's one of the winter projects he has laying around... We got a buddy turning down some parts for us for the front disc brakes, then we gotta plumb the fuel lines and fire up the new motor. It's no show-car but should make a decent little driver...

The frame in the left of the pic is a 55 chevy truck that he put a camaro clip under 3-4 years ago. There's an LT1 sitting in the garage waiting to go in it. One of these days he'll get caught up with all of his projects... lol

Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700372 December 01st 2015 11:19 am
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Well, after wrestling around with it for 4 hours by myself, I got the motor/tranny combo up into the van! That big cherry picker was a key component in that equation....

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I have to do the final tweaking on the engine today to get it into place before I start burning things in....

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It's close though! The fan fits right into the shroud like it should...

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The twin-sticks will require a little bit of bending to make those work, they sit about 6" farther back than I thought they would...

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Re: 4x4 shorty van
Lunchbox2 #700373 December 01st 2015 11:22 am
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I'm headed back out today to continue the process. This van used to have a th400 in it, which was longer than my 700r4, so the factory tranny crossmember is going to work out pretty well. I'll bolt that up, and rotate the motor slightly, then build some pedestals for the motor mounts and start welding!

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Lunchbox2 #700547 December 04th 2015 12:22 am
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that is some awesome work!


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