5.7L Hemi removal

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mischiefdart

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Replacing a 5.7 in an 04 Ram 2500 pickup. Disconnecting everything was not that bad but they are real tight to actually get out of the engine bay. Had to pull the drivers side engine mount and bracket off the block to get it out.

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Listen carefully........I just got done pulling an engine out of a Dakota 4x4 AND a Durango 4x4. The front differential IS BOLTED TO THE ENGINE brackets, and so the axles and diff have to be removed FIRST. The crossmember requires an order from the dead King of England to come out of the frame, and the permanent welded crossmember behind THAT interferes with the transfer case tail housing.

I don't believe you know what "difficult" is LMAO

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Wow 67Dart273 you have a real big ego don't you? I wish I could be as good as you. I am really stretched to my limits on this job. How about go pound your chest on someone else's thread.
 
mischiefdart said:
Wow 67Dart273 you have a real big ego don't you? I wish I could be as good as you. I am really stretched to my limits on this job. How about go pound your chest on someone else's thread.
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IT WAS MEANT TO BE A JOKE

I'm so sorry I offended you. I'm 69 and I hurt in every joint of my body. I should not even be doing this work.
 
Hey no sweat. Sorry I jumped on you. I have just had a few people do me really wrong recently and have a bit of a hair trigger. I know how bad 4x4 Dakota's suck to work on. I am doing this on the side for a guy I used to work for. If it were a Dakota I would have turned it down or asked more than he wanted to pay.
 
OK. If you and I were on the phone or face to face you would have realized. I'm thinking about putting a small exhaust flange where the converter used to be so I can get the exhaust apart near the crossmember problem "for next time."

One huge issue with the 5.2/ 5/9 in the Dak/ Durango is the dam clips on the header pipe bolts The clips fail and the bolts turn, so you can't remove the nuts OR break the bolts.........they just turn. I had to plasma them off on the Dak. When they go together, I'll weld some "tee" tops to the bolts so they won't turn, and will use grade 2 bolts so I can break em!!!
 
67Dart273 said:
Listen carefully........I just got done pulling an engine out of a Dakota 4x4 AND a Durango 4x4. The front differential IS BOLTED TO THE ENGINE brackets, and so the axles and diff have to be removed FIRST. The crossmember requires an order from the dead King of England to come out of the frame, and the permanent welded crossmember behind THAT interferes with the transfer case tail housing.

I don't believe you know what "difficult" is LMAO


Thats what a sawsall is for on those crossmembers, then you weld up some rightful attach plates to reinforce and bolt that ***** back in.
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"Thats what a sawsall is for on those crossmembers, then you weld up some rightful attach plates to reinforce and bolt that ***** back in."

I did plasma the one out of the Dakota. I first tried pulling the engine divorced from trans/ transfer I finally gave up as I could not get it all to tilt down far enough to get to the bellhousing bolts. Part of the problem was that I removed one engine / differential bracket to gain access to the converter bolts. The thing is a real chinese puzzle.
 
67Dart273 said:
"Thats what a sawsall is for on those crossmembers, then you weld up some rightful attach plates to reinforce and bolt that ***** back in."

I did plasma the one out of the Dakota. I first tried pulling the engine divorced from trans/ transfer I finally gave up as I could not get it all to tilt down far enough to get to the bellhousing bolts. Part of the problem was that I removed one engine / differential bracket to gain access to the converter bolts. The thing is a real chinese puzzle.
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Yep thats because the car makers dont want us fixing their stuff.
 
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