A learning experience. The intake has to be removed to use a standard hoist to lift it out. The a/c pump is on the very bottom of the engine. You have to lift the engine to get it out. What a pain. I wonder if I should put a new one in there just so I wont have to do this again? I was sold this vehicle with the previous owner saying it had a knock. I tried to turn it over and it was locked. Now I know the real story. It has a hole in the side of the block and half a rod laying on the cross-member.
My theory is that it was knocking and someone ran it until the rod went though the case it it locked up without spewing oil everywhere. I drained a full pan out of it.
Tomsbeast, it will fit back in there but it is close. I couldn't imagine putting a v10 or 7.3 6.0 back in one of these. Maybe a 6bt in about 200,000 more miles.
Some guys I used to race with, took a rolled E350 Diesel ambulance, and swapped on a 15 passenger body, to use as a race trailer and crew hauling rig. They raced out of it for years. Anyhow, the dad told me it took he and the boys a weekend to swap van bodies. Might have been an exaggeration, but as I look under mine, there doesn't seem to be but one big 'ole electrical plug, the steering column, and 10 or so 5/8" body-to-chassis bolts. Then there's the lift you'd need...
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