Current status: I took Friday off and pulled the original engine and transmission. I figured 8 hours (by myself) and ended up with 13 hours and some assistance from a friend. I spend half of Sat getting the motor from a friend's shop where it was delivered and into my garage. What a mess of stuff Jarco included. They really included everything from the donor vehicle I could possibly need. I didn't get as far as fitting the diesel in on Sunday as I ran into issues.

The two problems so far:
1) there are no hoist hooks on the motor, how do I lift it without removing the intercooler and other stuff that might get messed up by attaching chain to the sides of the motor? I'm thinking using the rear of the block (transmission removed) and the motor mounts with chain attatched to some sort of triangle bracket attatched to the hoist(to keep the chain from angling in and messing up the stuff on top of the motor). Just a matter of having a strong bracket made for me. Any suggestions?

2) the motor mounts are different on the motor than what I pulled off the petrol motor. It appears the original setup will bolt on the driver (US) side of the motor, but the passenger side is questionable. It appears that I could use the diesel motor bracket with the petrol motor mount. My concern with this is that the original mount has one bolt connecting the mount pad to the engine bracket, the diesel mount has two. Mixing the two looks like it should work using one bolt, but it concerns me to use one when the diesel originally used two. Any suggestions on that one?

Let me know if anyone has suggestions on either of these two issues.

Paul