Ducman82

so all i have to do its drill the holes for the locating pins on the later mounts, so they sit nice on my early x-member right?

Richard S

No, engine will not fit. Need new style crossmember. Speaking from experience here...

Rich

Ducman82

whats the difference? I'm hearing you can do both ways... hummmm

Richard S

If you just drill the holes in the early crossmember and install the new style mounts, the oil pan cannot clear the mounting plates on the mounts. Distance between the mounts will be too narrow....I know, hard to believe.

Very subtle difference in shape of new style crossmember.

Rich

Ducman82

thats what i figured. that would suck to find out when its to late... anyone got a spare laying around?

Richard S

I found out when it was too late.... "Why the **** won't this engine just drop in?" Crawled under and found out ....

Easy enough to put in a later style crossmember.

Rich

UncleMaz

Can I send it on Saturday?

Ducman82

Email Sent MJ

Fabio421

Is it possible to use the early style mounts with the 5L block? The early mounts don't have the problems that the later mounts have.

Ducman82

i don't see why not, but my early mounts were crap

UncleMaz

Back at ya.

Ducman82

got the late model cross member installed. took about 1.5 hours. whew.... did it without dropping the rack. so what hole does the stud for the motor mount go it? outside holes, or inside ones?

Jadz928

How did you do that w/o dropping the rack?

Andre Hedrick

I want picture sequence to prove that magic trick so I can use it too.

Ducman82

Ok so here is what i did
removed control arms bolts
removed A-arm supports (xmember to top control arm nut)
removed rack bolts and steering column coping (marking for position)
then removed last 17mm bolt on back top of xmemeber

when it was loose, i pushed rack down a bit, and then kicked out the pass side of the crossmember to the back of the car. then pulled the driver side of member to the front. popped right out for me. install was in reverse.