I dunno what's different about the automatics but I just replaced the capacitors on my 1993 Sport a couple years ago, I also had to bodge wire a few traces eaten up by the old capacitors. It's still got the original computer, just new caps. It's been running great ever since.
As a computer technician myself (I work I.T. By day, and dabble with vintage computers as a hobby), your scenario kinda' raises a question for me as to if the firmware or some other variance in these computers exists that we need to be paying attention to. I can see they have a ROM with some Date Codes on it, and there's 2 different stickers on the case (mine says ANY1, LOL) - did find a cool page full of EEC-IV type utilities -
Pete Kvitek's EEC IV page - since they're DOS and Win32, might be fun for me to mess with these on my old MS-DOS/Win95 laptops, looks like I feel another "deep dive" coming.
Looking at the stickers I can see the second row on the one with the barcode is the FoMoCo P/N: in my case that's the F37F-12A650-YB - which in my case is a 1993 2wd manual Ford Explorer Sport. Oddly an DuckDuckGo search shows them as a 1993 RANGER ECU at a lot of places, and 4wD Explorer 1993-1994 (which makes sense). - UPDATE - Found a thread on FordTrucks.com on this.
How can I tell which EEC-IV computer I have, and what it will run in? - Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums
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