Marie Dennis
New member
Hi,
For starters I lied a little when i filled out the registration here. I don't own 100+ acres, I work there, but there wasn't a category for that. My friend owns the farm/ranch here near Carson City NV. She's a hard working gal and I wan to help her out. She has a 6X4 gator with a blown engine and has a replacement engine waiting in a crate. I train horses there and am the general handy-girl. I grew up rural and I am a fairly skilled back yard mechanic. I have pulled the engine out of my Comanche 4X4, stripped it, took it for the core deposit, with out too much problem. I have fixed pretty much everything else on it too, with the exception of the drive train, after all it is a JEEP! And at some point I figure I will have a new truck down to the frame, LOL! I have worked on a few other vehicles too. Even fixed my toaster once, but I think the jeep was easier.... But back to the gal with the gator. If I have standard mechanical common sense (not sayin' I actually do), could I manage the install of the new engine? How different are they from a car/truck engine? Anything special you can think of as warning? Like, when you pull part X off, be ready to catch all the irreplaceable ball bearings that are gonna spill all over the place....? I'm going to look at it tomorrow, it's been sitting for a year. I'll get the year and hopefully what engine number if I can find one. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have! And yeah, I"m a girl who works on cars...... it was out of necessity at first, but I like it now.
Marie :newhere:
For starters I lied a little when i filled out the registration here. I don't own 100+ acres, I work there, but there wasn't a category for that. My friend owns the farm/ranch here near Carson City NV. She's a hard working gal and I wan to help her out. She has a 6X4 gator with a blown engine and has a replacement engine waiting in a crate. I train horses there and am the general handy-girl. I grew up rural and I am a fairly skilled back yard mechanic. I have pulled the engine out of my Comanche 4X4, stripped it, took it for the core deposit, with out too much problem. I have fixed pretty much everything else on it too, with the exception of the drive train, after all it is a JEEP! And at some point I figure I will have a new truck down to the frame, LOL! I have worked on a few other vehicles too. Even fixed my toaster once, but I think the jeep was easier.... But back to the gal with the gator. If I have standard mechanical common sense (not sayin' I actually do), could I manage the install of the new engine? How different are they from a car/truck engine? Anything special you can think of as warning? Like, when you pull part X off, be ready to catch all the irreplaceable ball bearings that are gonna spill all over the place....? I'm going to look at it tomorrow, it's been sitting for a year. I'll get the year and hopefully what engine number if I can find one. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have! And yeah, I"m a girl who works on cars...... it was out of necessity at first, but I like it now.
Marie :newhere:
