5000 for a motor swap is highway robbery. There are places that will do a lot better than that. It's a Ford Truck motor. Think of how many have been produced and sold. Possibly the most popular truck sold these days. Think of all the engine take outs from wrecked vehicles. A motor swap if you buy a take out with 60 to 80 thousand miles will last a long time if taken care of. Hell these days that's just about when they get broken in. Someone should be able to do a complete swap out for well under $5,000. These engines these days are plug and Play. You remove the old engine you set the new one down in and everything has its own plugs and darn near impossible to hook up incorrectly. If I had an engine hoist and still lived there I would do it for $750 bucks. Me and Anthony persinger who is now a police officer around the McDonough took his wrecked car took every nut and Bolt and piece of wire off the wrecked car and put on another roller. I myself literally had the engine out in about 45 minutes to an hour. The best way is to unhook all the hoses and wire connections and drop the K member. Then take the engine off and both the K member right back in. Now if you dealing with a long block it's a little more intricate because you have to take off all the wiring harnesses and fuel injector rails intake valve covers fuel pump, timing cover and harmonic balancer and all that mess so that does take time. However if you buy an engine take out it has all that crap already on it they simply unhook the hoses and wiring connections, unbolt transmission and yank the whole motor out as a whole a lot of times even with the wiring harness and computer. But you can get them without the complete wiring harness and computer and they are cheaper but that doesn't make it that much easier to install. If somebody's quoting you five grand they're going on vacation after that deal hell the whole shop will go on vacation on that one engine swap.
