What's wrong with engineers now days?

rp23g7 said

Never priced it, How much? Its either going to get a OHV 4.0 or sent to the junk yard when it dies, depending how I feel.

Its been a good truck, 160,000 miles and the only issue was a wheel hub/bearing at 40,000 miles and that intake o ring,

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Just the hard parts start at $266 and go to $546 plus shipping from Rock Auto. I haven't figured why but they list different applications for the 2 wheel drive vs the 4 wheel drive/AWD.

To change to an OHV requires the tranny also. If yours is a 4WD/AWD you will need the transfer case too. Then you have to get around any electronics/wiring/computer issues. I have a 99 OHV Explorer that just needed a transfer case and I checked out what it would take to swap the engine in and it didn't take long to figure out that it wasn't worth the hassle.