I need help installing engine

[Matt87pu]

I am swapping engines in my 87 yota pick up. Nothing fancy. Just swapping 22R's. The engine that I'm swapping into it is from an 82. Everything visionally looks the same. I'm not worried about the smog laws or anything. Anyway here is my problem I keep getting the clutch lined up with the input shaft but when I lower the engine the motor is about an inch to far foward to line up with the mounts. The top of the motor lines up with the tranny but the bottem of the motor is about an inch away. I'm pretty sure thats where my problem is. I have the motor on a chain hoist and there is a jack under the tranny. I have tried to lower them both at the same time but that doens't do it. I have tried getting everything lined up and prying the motor back at the mounts but that doesn't work. I'm just spinning my wheels here so I decided to ask here. Could the motor mounts before different between the two engines? I had them side by side and they looked the same so I figured they were but I'm doubting my intellegence on this one cause the motor is winning at every turn. Thanks

[kje001]

try putting a jack under your transfercase. twisting the trans sometimes helps

[bbagwell]

You can also try putting a wrench on the bolt for the crank pulley and turning the motor over. This will sometimes suck the tranny up to the block. I have also put a rachet strap around the motor and tranny and pulled them together. It can be a real PITA to get the lined up, then sometimes they just slide together.

[jvmin]

if the top is together and the bottom is apart then you have the tranny tilted down to far in the front or the engine tilted down in the rear too far. either way they have to be lined up before you slide them together.

I had to use a ratchet strap across the frame rails to hold the transmission up and then tilted the engine to line up with it. and they wouldn't slide together. on one occassion I found that the clutch fingers had hit the top of the bell housing on the way down and allowed the clutch disk to slide down and misalign just enough to prevent the clutch disk from sliding onto the shaft even when it was lined up right. so check that the disk is still in the center of the pressure plate and try again.
It will help to turn the drive shaft while aligning them so take it loose or lift one rear wheel if non posi both if you have a locker. then rotate the yoke while putting it together. or do like suggested above and turn the engine over with a wrench.

I just find it easier to take four driveshaft bolts out and turn the tranny by hand for alignment. and the ratchet strap allowed me to crank the tranny up as far as needed to line up.

the shaft splines have to line up with the clutch disk
and the shaft has to line up with the pilot bearing as that's happening or it isn't going together.

[keyice]

clutch allignment tool also you need them to be tipped up I put my supra motor in by myself had no problems but you might want to get a load lever and with a mated top and a spaced bottom your tranny has to point up more. Honestly I have found in the past a tranny is much easier to stab than a motor. If you can't get it pull the tranny, put the motor in and then stab the tranny.

[81 camo yota]

I just put another 22r in my truck this last weekend and the thing that helped me was that the drivlines are disconnected. and the tranny in Neutral. this way you can spin the shaft to line up with the splines in the motor. I am sure that you lined up the clutch with the clutch alignment tool right. If so then this little trick should do it for you! Good luck