I pulled motor cuz of knock to replace with another 4.0 and now that I'm reinstalling it, I can't get the locator pins to line up!? Tryed putting bolts thru get one started them won't push on.. Motor mounts are off not in the way!? And bout sick of messing with it! Was trying for 2 hrs earlier and can't get it! Torque converter is on tranny, I'm lost any help will be greatly appreciated!? Also maybe use longer locator bolts to he it aligned??? Any one no the size of them off hand ??

 

Did you have the torque converter off at any time?

 

either the angle of the engine is not correct or the torque converter is not fully seated on the transmission input shaft, one way to check to see if the torque converter is fully seated is to pull it off and the reinstall it listening for two clicks. use caution pulling it off as their is quite a bit of fluid in the torque converter and may come out. when i pulled my engine out i also pulled it with the transmission and t-case attached as i was changing all three. reinstalled it the same way with no problems.

 

We got it! Dk what was going on lol but now it makes a scrubbing noise from under neath like something rubbing like a knock but more scraping lol

 

I'll bet the torque converter is not seated. Did you ever remove it?

 

Yep we did! And know one will believe what happen torquing down the head bolts! We were on final torq... On the second to last bolt and it broke! We thought about drilling it then I was like ok we will drill it if it broke flat and it didn't so we put the too part of bolt back in the hole and twisted it to the left ( to back it out) and it came right out! Wth!? Lol so lucky!!!

 

Check to see that the head bolt holes aren't crudded up, stopping the hedbolt before it gets tight.

 

Did you try to use the same head bolts??

 

Lol.... No... Hahahaha I've changed several head allways replaced head bolts this time he didn't want to so I didn't cause they say u can reuse them... Learned my lesson!

 

Yeah they're made to be torqued only once

 

Lol manual says u can 2 times... Aren't they super hard!? Think they shouldn't break anyway...