Mar 24, 2009 -
rear wheel drive Corolla engine swap
Went to the junk yard, andwas surprised to find a 1985 Corolla with 79K miles on the engine.
The interior was spotless,and the sticker on the window suggest a Nellis Airman. 
Could it be, another Airman never came back from Iraq? A C-130 flew over.
I knew I could bring new life to the engine 
by swapping into my 1987 Corolla rearwheeldrive
.The next day,
I brought my compression tester, a good battery,
and jumper cables for the connection to the starter. The compression was good. 
I began to tear all the parts off the block. The price was about $150 without the components. My block has 250K miles on it, this engine should make it that far. I got it into my trunk and drove home.
At home I noticed the the water pumps and the water pump pulleys were different. 
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The bigger outlet went to the radiator on the front wheel drive. Minewas smaller and went to the heater. The outlet to my radiator, is on the bottom of the water pump. I removed my engine mounts from my rearwheedrive block and bolted them right to the frontwheeldrive block. No problem here. Before I hoist it in, I remove the motor mount above the pump next to the timing belt.. 
Another not to obvious difference was the flywheel.
A quick swap and now every thing should be right. This blog flows right into the next one, "Engine Clean." But here it is, before and after.
I wish their was some software program to put my blogs in order, but this one flows into the next, I guess nobody would know to scroll to the bottom to see the newest blog.
