Hello all,
Last Monday, when the Detroit area experienced record rainfall and flooding, my wife got stuck on the way home and ruined the engine in her 2014 R/T Max AWD Charger. The car has about 15,000 miles on it, my insurance company found an engine out of a wrecked 2014 with 11,000 miles.
They shipped the engine from New York to my brother's repair shop here in Michigan, but when it arrived it was out of a RWD car. On the AWD car, the front differential is somehow mated to or part of the oil pan, among other differences.
My brother called the company in New York, they offered to pay him to swap the necessary parts from the old engine to the new. This worries me somewhat as (1) we are not sure of everything that needs to be changed and (2) was the the engine with 11,000 miles on it, or did they send the completely wrong engine? My brother is working on this, trying to figure out the 2nd part but we haven't decided on swapping the parts yet.
The main reason we are considering doing it is timing; the first engine took 3+ days to ship, so even assuming they have the correct engine there we're looking at next week before it arrives.
So, my questions: What parts need to move from her engine to the new one to get it to work, and is it worth doing that or should we make the supplier send the correct one?
Last Monday, when the Detroit area experienced record rainfall and flooding, my wife got stuck on the way home and ruined the engine in her 2014 R/T Max AWD Charger. The car has about 15,000 miles on it, my insurance company found an engine out of a wrecked 2014 with 11,000 miles.
They shipped the engine from New York to my brother's repair shop here in Michigan, but when it arrived it was out of a RWD car. On the AWD car, the front differential is somehow mated to or part of the oil pan, among other differences.
My brother called the company in New York, they offered to pay him to swap the necessary parts from the old engine to the new. This worries me somewhat as (1) we are not sure of everything that needs to be changed and (2) was the the engine with 11,000 miles on it, or did they send the completely wrong engine? My brother is working on this, trying to figure out the 2nd part but we haven't decided on swapping the parts yet.
The main reason we are considering doing it is timing; the first engine took 3+ days to ship, so even assuming they have the correct engine there we're looking at next week before it arrives.
So, my questions: What parts need to move from her engine to the new one to get it to work, and is it worth doing that or should we make the supplier send the correct one?