Update, Today I was finally able to get the engine where I wanted, I swear I took the engine in and out at least 20 times measuring, mocking up, cutting and prepping before I was able to get the motor mounts tacked on late tonight.

I did use the Oxy/Acetylene to cut the mounts off the 95, I ended up cutting a lot more than I needed and ended up just cutting the motor mounts off the frame parts. It ended up that the placement of the engine was great where the motor mounts touched both sides of the frame (37" back from the front of the frame).

I had more fun today (Bad luck) I went out to get a new 220V welder, got it back, ran new wire and outlets in the shop, wired it in... Then noticed that I did not have the spare spool of wire I thought. I grabbed the one out of the old welder and got to work, after only a few minutes I ran out of wire

I figured the welding could take a break and get to cleaning up the welds I had to grind them back to smooth so the engine mounts could go in. Then the angle grinder overheated and died. WTF!!!!

After a bit I figured out that I could use my 7" buffer sander and take the mounts off the grinder and use a large grinding wheel I had. I was back to work, well the Masonry grinding wheel was working well but caught an edge and shattered. Seriously WTF

SO I decided to use the small 4.5" discs I was using on the grinder and that worked ok but the head on the sander is larger so I could not cut long before needing to change discs... several times.

But after much annoyance the engine was set in its final place, leveled back to front and side to side and tacked in.

I had to go out to dinner so I called that good for the night, grabbed the camera to take photos for you but the memory card was gone... so no photos from today but there is the update

Back to work in the AM

 

 

tiremann 9669, you are a man of many words

thanx for the follow

 

IIRC RSWORDS on here, he is a Moderator and has an orange name, had an air to water intercooler. i dono if he still has it but it would be a nice piece to use. you can PM him to see if he still has it for sale.

 

 

Benjamin, thanks for the heads up, I will reach out to him.

Tiremann LOL


I got the engine mounts welded better today, bolted the engine to the trans and was actually able to get it mocked into place... Looks like I mounted the engine in the right spot and the trans will not need much floor modification. All in all another good day of progress

 

 

nice1 !!!!!

 

The last few days I have been trying to figure out the Heat and AC, I started to build something but need a smaller Evap Core so that project is at a standstill for now.

I guess I need to keep mocking stuff up.

 

Yesterday I started to give the wiring harness a haircut, I am not going to be using the SRS airbags so I was able to remove that whole system. I also found a whole harness of wires that were not being used on my donor truck it would have been 4x4 wiring, ABS and for a manual trans... they just put all of the wire in the truck and use what they need.

If there is anyone that needs the Airbags or stuff, let me know I meticuliously removed it from the harness so you would have the wiring, controller, and airbag for the steering wheel. I also have airbags from the GMC Envoy seats.