Cummins Swapping a Mustang. How Hard CAN IT BE?

come on get out of there damn you're in the way of my comments at least it's not cold or snowing uh yeah yeah nevermind I forget it's cold and high anyway guys I need to catch you up real quick , we bought a new

mustang

and a little problem it was a little beat up it came from Louisiana it probably had an alligator who knows what happened to it and we needed some parts for that car we'll buy a parts car and uh yeah we'll take all the parts from the parts car , put them in the new

mustang

we bought, but we haven't finished the wort yet, yeah, that's a story from a different time and we'll talk about that later, an idea came up, an idea that in my mind I took and ran with it, we should take and put

cummins

from a big truck into this small car.

Now let me start by saying that maybe I can't do it, the engine is going to be too heavy for the car and it's a lot of work to figure out if it's going to work or not, where you have to take the car completely apart to see if the engine is going to work. fit and if it doesn't, it's a lot of wasted work, so when you put it like That sounds like a dumb idea, doesn't it? We're the king of dumb ideas, so I guess let's do it, hit the subscribe button and move on.

Yes, this was one of the smartest ideas I've ever had. Alright guys, this is the Mustang in question, uh, it needs a little work, this car was kind of a duke of danger and they jumped it, so we need to take this to the garage and fix that part and then. Take out the engine, ready guys, okay, how are we going to lower it? I have an idea. I'll be right back. I have a big cat. This is a lot like trying to find a hole. In the dark I can't really see where I'm going and I might make a fool of myself.

We have to chain him. Wait. I'm going to put it in neutral. Okay, come on, put it in neutral. Weightlifting. I can. I didn't put it in neutral Westin, why not? There is no button. Oh my God, take a step there. Holy shit, that doesn't make me feel fat. Look at this. I'm back on the ground. I'm back on the ground. It felt like flying. up in the air whoever it is guys we have the red mustang in the garage thanks to our 95 horsepower cat sitting there. Now I think the first thing we need to do is remove this wheel from here and see how much damage we have.

On the front of this, you may not have understood what I meant when I said this card was Dukes of Hazard. What this car has been jumped like this. I think that's what happened to him because Ed got jumped on this whole strut and everything on it. The corner is bent, so let's go ahead and take the wheel off, take the strut off, and see if there's anything else that's messed up with the suspension. Why do we have it here? I have a new strut to put on it if that's all that's wrong we're going to go ahead and put a new strut on it that way we can still roll the car and move it to wherever we go we're going to go ahead and take this thing apart and see exactly it's wrong.

We got the strut off the car and if you can notice a little bit here, they put it here on the workbench. Yes, it's a little better. I can give you an idea. There is the new one without the spray, obviously, and there is the. the old one, straight, bent, straight, okay, I need to figure out how we're going to get that spring from that one to that one, oh my gosh, that almost makes me feel bad about taking this little motor out because it works, we've got the strut. fix it, got the new spring there, I guess it's time we start taking the engine out of this car, yeah I know, I guess there's nothing left to do, activate super speed mode, let's get this engine ready to go.

All right guys, it's the next day. We're back here at the store and let me show you what we did at the cumin swap mustang last night. Actually, it was surprisingly a lot. It didn't take long to take it. aside, come here, let me show you, oh yeah, there it is and all its pride and glory, yeah, we took it apart, the only thing holding that engine up is a little bit of gravity and, yeah, that's it, all it is is gravity . So this is the first step to the next swap process: take this little motor out and realistically it comes apart very easily.

It actually sets up very easily to take apart, which I guess is good for us. I don't know if the Cummins. It's still going to fit, but we're going to get this engine out and then we're going to try it, so I guess there's nothing else to do, let's go ahead and grab some change, grab the engine lifter and uh let's see if we can get this out of here, okay, I'll be right back, okay, maybe we'd better not do it that way, I'll be back with a better method to remove it. I can't believe I thought it worked, I got it now. yeah, that didn't work, come on, get in there, get in there anyway, this thing is just inviting us to take out its engine, that's right, it just wants to be such a bad smoke sting chained together real quick and wrap this engine and uh. start pulling, cross your fingers, I hope there is luck and everything goes well.

I think there's a chain there. We have the engine ready to start. There is a chain completely wrapped around it. Now what we are going to have to do is catch the cherry bird. here here go ahead and slide it in get in there get in there help your brother brother and oh we need this thing to get out of here a pile or not as soon as possible that's horrible come on put it in there oh yeah yeah everything looks good Now that we have the cherry picker here, we'll go ahead and hook up our chain.

Now we're going to have to pull this engine in and out a little bit and then I'm going to have to unhook the wires that go to the starter motor. I can't actually get to where it is now, so I guess without further ado, Whalen is getting precise, he's already pulling it, oh my gosh, it's coming out, wait, wait, keep going, all good, haha, get back there , we will put it. Take it down just a hair, okay, okay, you want to stop this right there, perfect, okay, take another look. They actually put a cutout in the hood to fit the engine in and out.

There are a lot of people trading this stuff, okay, give it a few more times, yeah, give it a good oh no, I know what we're talking about. What did you use to remove the bolts on that exhaust? I did it, but you have to remove them. Use the. lever and lever that can be lifted oh there it's all good now finally this time it's ready to go oh you're stuck on something really stupid come back we're trying to figure out what was stopping us from coming Look, the chain is left hanging on the crossbar, push it back a little, okay, here we go, okay, wait, wait, oh yeah, look at the bounce, we're high enough, oh yeah, the reason this is still here is because we didn't want to.

We have to evacuate the air conditioning system yet because my friend is going to come out and drain it for us. That way we don't let the freon get loose in there and smoke us out of our tent. Okay, sure, I think the moment is ready, my God, it's coming out of vroom. I'm a Cummins. This is actually much more comfortable. Your last time when cold start comes in handy, I'm just seeing how the Cummins will feel when it's here. You know, realistically, here's my thinking. My thinking is if the car can hold me it could probably hold the Cummins guys the small engine is off and there's room for a big engine or there's room for a big Westin to sit in there so there's probably room for a big .

Engine, we're going to try to expertly catalog a 12 valve right there inside that hole, we don't know if it's going to work, but we're going to try, if it works, it's going to be one of the most epic things. What I've ever done and probably the most amazing thing, imagine a 12 valve sitting here, going to a big smoke stand, going here, it's going to be epic, I mean, I'm so excited about this. Will it fit? We do not know. but anything can be fixed with a big enough crowbar and a big enough hammer so we can probably get stuck in there now there's a lot of stuff we're going to have to figure out to make this work huh system intercooler attempt made out of fuel. to make a radiator fit all the little things but we don't need any of that it's who needs a radiator if only

cummins

don't need radiators sometimes they just come out air cooled regardless we're going to figure out how to fit them . this car together and we're going to do something amazing with this thing or the smoke or the cup uh, I don't know, we're going to have to find a name for it, I like the smoke stain, I think that's what I'll call it anyway, Regardless, some of you are wondering where our other red Ford Mustang we have is and I'll tell you that the old guy helping me straighten the frame on that car doesn't like working in the cold. like he works at his own pace, so yeah, that car is being worked on and we'll finish it, only we're doing this one first, we'll probably finish this car first and then we'll go back to that car and finish that one. car regardless, let's do them, I hope you come back and see us figure it out, you see what we're going to do, you see the mustang behind me, make sure you come back, that means you guys subscribe to notifications if you have.

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