Well, I'm back to work on the Montero Diesel Swap from a Ranger. I stopped by a yard today to pick up a skid plate, power steering reservoir and another bouncy seat but only scored the bouncy seat and another spare hazard switch. While my son worked on pulling the front seats and installing the dual bouncy seats, I worked on loosening the oil pan bolts and checked orientation of the Montero oil pan I'll be using on the engine.



Here's a tilted pic of the 4d55 showing the Ford Ranger pan orientation and oil pan bolts.



Here's a pic of the front of the engine. The red arrow indicates a broken fan pulley bolt I'll need to take care of. I have some spare bolts I picked up off of fleabay along with a complete set of oil pan bolts.



Here's a pic of the Montero oil pan and the Felpro heavy paper gasket I purchased for installing the oil pan. Any pointers on the best way to seal the pan? I'm thinking of smearing some clear RTV on both sides of the gasket before installing the pan. Should I do this or just leave it dry?



Here's a shot of the rear of the engine. I need to clean up the caked-on oil and will be replacing the valve cover gasket, valve cover bolt grommets and the rear main seal before installing the engine in the Montero.




Here's a pic of the turbo side of the engine. Both of the oil cooler lines are loose and leaking badly. The whole side of the engine is caked with oily dirt. After cleaning it up, I'm either going to remove the oil cooler lines and plug the holes with correct-sized bolts or fix the leaks and run an oil cooler.



I've still got a bunch to do to the engine to get it ready to drop in.

-Pmontero (better late than never... I started this swap and thread three years ago!)