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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bludorbronc" data-source="post: 19305" data-attributes="member: 2047"><p>Hi I picked up an old 542B needed a motor,it had a 1.1 liter Ford industrial 4 cyl.,25 horse. Could not find one for a good price so I went looking.I thought 4 cyl. can't be to hard to replace it.Toyota came to mind,lots around,run forever and a friend had one I could have.First I did was strip out old stuff, original used a motor plate to mount the back of the block and the flywheel held the drive for the pump so I thought if I could use the stock flwheel it would save alot of modifying. It used the same bolt pattern as the toyota flywheel just had to open the center crank hole to fit toyota crank. So now I had Toyota motor,Ford flywheel and pump drive. But when I bolted the flywheel up tight it hit the block so i got 2 flywheel shims.next I had a piece of quater inch plate bent like the stock one. I measured out opening for flywheel and opening for Toyota starter,took plate to friends and used plasma cutter with tool I made to cut circles and cut out holes. I had to make sure center line of crank to mounting surface was correct so drive would be level. Then I drilled holes to bolt plate to block, I set motor in and hooked up drive, while hanging on hoist keeping it level with machine I made front stand mounts. Next I looked at the Toyota starter,I needed to space it back aways but I needed a pattern for the starter,with the motor was an engine plate that goes between the block and bell housing.There was my pattern.I cut 4 pieces of 3/16 plate and drilled the bolt holes and used a hole saw for the large hole, the hole saw was a little big so I cut the pattern out of the block plate and aligned the up and welded them together then I drilled the pattern in the block mounting plate and now the starter is installed. With motor now in the bobcat next I went to wiring,I made a mount so I cold use stock Ford alternator,for temp I used the stock Toyota sending unit,I unscrewed it from the thermotat housing and knocked out the ceramic center and drilled it out and threaded it so i could use stock Ford sender screwed into Toyota part. To use the Ford oil pressure sender,I use a brake master cylinder adapter that one end srewed into the block and stock Ford screwed into it. Now the stock loom was connected to all stock senders. but I had to get the Toyota ignition connected.There is 3 wires and I didn't know what was what so a little calling and I found out hooking brown and yellow wires to 12 volts gave me fire. So wiring is done.Now I am at the next stage, getting it to mount the cooling shroud,am going to have to modify metal radiator clean out door. That's it for now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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