i have a ford ranger 4+4 a 1989 auto with a 2.9 my brother blew the moter he drove it home so i got a 4.0 out of a mazda a mech put it in well the starter wont turn it over like something is froze he took the bolts off flex plate moter turns over what went wrong help

 

if he took the bolts outta the flex plate an now the motor turns over ,,, Then I would have to say he has the tranny torque converter outta place an it was in a bind

, Possibly damaged the tranny front pump an the converter as well... , A very common problem when mating an engine to a tranny, if the guy isnt careful.,

The converter must be installed all the way in the tranny , if you look at the converter it has 2 ears sticking out of it , those must lock all the way in the pump , take a flashlight an look at the tranny pump an you will see 2 notches for the converter to drop in .

You cant pull/ force the engine to the tranny by like say using longer bolts to pull them together , they should slid together, if not then something is not alined correct

 

the mech is trying to say that when the moter wennt bad it made the trans go to at the same time i know he screwed up but how do i prove it

 

you would have to look at the ears coming off the converter to see if they are damaged ,, , an remove the front pump outta the tranny an look at it for signs of damage,

if this is what happened it will be very easy to see, sorry there no other way that Iam aware. Its very very rare that engine failure will cause tranny failure as well.

Tell him you want to get another Tech. to look at it, an if he screwed it up- take him to court

Is this a real auto repair shop , or some guy with a Sears hand carry tool box, back yard / buddy of a friend type deal ??

 

here what happend i bought the truck from my brother my mom gave it to him it was my dads i was going to do the replacement myself i got the moter on a sat well low and behold on mon at work im a heavy equpt opr my piece of equpt got on fire it was around my hands when i was ubdoing seat belt so i had to jump bad landing about 25 feet so now my backis screwed its getting better the and a shop at the top of the street above my moms the owner came down tryed to turn over the moter said moter junk so i got the 4.0 he installed it then istoped by he said it wont turn over he then took out the bolts on convertor and moter turned over but tranes frozen noqw my brother drove it home and there has never been any problems with the trans
i talked to a trans guy he said the onley way it would freeze up is if the housing is cracked or the bushing is way worn out ging to the pump or the bolts backed off between moter and trans
any other way its his fault i just going to have him pull it out look at bushing it will tell the storyi hope but excuse the way i say this what can u expect out of illigles mex

 

[:@] theres a lot of things I would like to say,,, none of them would be postive !!!!!!


But in the end the guy up the hill was probaly cheaper, so he got the job RIGHT !!!!!