How to swap a 4.7 HO into my 2006 Ram 1500 Quadcab 4x4
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How to swap a 4.7 HO into my 2006 Ram 1500 Quadcab 4x4
Replacing my 2006 dodge ram 1500 bighorn quad cabs 32 tooth 4.7 w/ EGR has 8 sparkplugs V8
with a 32 tooth 4.7 HO w/ EGR from a 05 jeep overland.
TLD > we did the timing a few months ago, back in July. Then the truck froze over during winter. Forgot change the coolant back to HOAT antifreeze. Started it while was frozen & the water-pump snapped clean in half, didn't realize it & took off. . . otw home it overheated real bad & died in the road. she got so hot that it wouldn't turn over, We had it towed home & waited about a day for it to cool down. she started back up the next day.
Replaced the water pump & clutch fan as a combo. got a new radiator, thermostat & used HOAT coolant.
We only got another 150 miles out of it before died & wouldn't fire back up. It was putting decent amount of backpressure on the radiator so I'm sure it's a bad gasket failure. " there's was only a tiny amount of water in the oil when i drained it, " seems like it had just split the water side of the head-gasket. but i really don't know until i open it up.
Now for my question.
since this HO motor uses a 32 tooth crank sensor & the 4 plug pcm like my truck has
I believe most of it should be a direct plug & play.
I'll have the engine delivered to me soon & will be pulling my old one out when it gets here to swap parts onto the HO.
Melling oil pump that had less than 2k miles on it & the timing tensioners that i bought for the dead 4.7 back in July.
my question is would the only thing I really only need to swap & get it running be, "the camshaft timing wheel" ?
I was just gonna reuse the timing wheel from my old 4.7 & run it with my current pcm. then get it tuned later since the HO has a different tune than the stock 4.7's
has anybody else done this ?
with a 32 tooth 4.7 HO w/ EGR from a 05 jeep overland.
TLD > we did the timing a few months ago, back in July. Then the truck froze over during winter. Forgot change the coolant back to HOAT antifreeze. Started it while was frozen & the water-pump snapped clean in half, didn't realize it & took off. . . otw home it overheated real bad & died in the road. she got so hot that it wouldn't turn over, We had it towed home & waited about a day for it to cool down. she started back up the next day.
Replaced the water pump & clutch fan as a combo. got a new radiator, thermostat & used HOAT coolant.
We only got another 150 miles out of it before died & wouldn't fire back up. It was putting decent amount of backpressure on the radiator so I'm sure it's a bad gasket failure. " there's was only a tiny amount of water in the oil when i drained it, " seems like it had just split the water side of the head-gasket. but i really don't know until i open it up.
Now for my question.
since this HO motor uses a 32 tooth crank sensor & the 4 plug pcm like my truck has
I believe most of it should be a direct plug & play.
I'll have the engine delivered to me soon & will be pulling my old one out when it gets here to swap parts onto the HO.
Melling oil pump that had less than 2k miles on it & the timing tensioners that i bought for the dead 4.7 back in July.
my question is would the only thing I really only need to swap & get it running be, "the camshaft timing wheel" ?
I was just gonna reuse the timing wheel from my old 4.7 & run it with my current pcm. then get it tuned later since the HO has a different tune than the stock 4.7's
has anybody else done this ?
