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I picked up a 2001 Ranger extended cab 4x4 with a 3.0 with a missfire and a bad oil pan leak leak. Needless to say the gutless 3.0 needs to go. I have a late 97 Mountaineer parts truck I am using for the swap. I will be using the 97 computer so I have to swap the entire fuel system, no pats and shouldn't have too much of an issue with the speedo. I do realize most of the wiring is different from the 2 trucks so there will be a ton of re-pinning on the connectors.
I was set on leaving the truck stock height and doing the V8 swap but have decided its much easier to do a swap with a body lift. Since I did a body lift I realized I wanted more so also going with a 4" superlift kit with coil-over conversion. Will be running 4.88 gears with a lunchbox locker in the front and E-locker in the rear explorer 8.8.
I am a very busy person and will try to update this post more than once a year since this is a slow going project haha
How it started:
I was set on leaving the truck stock height and doing the V8 swap but have decided its much easier to do a swap with a body lift. Since I did a body lift I realized I wanted more so also going with a 4" superlift kit with coil-over conversion. Will be running 4.88 gears with a lunchbox locker in the front and E-locker in the rear explorer 8.8.
I am a very busy person and will try to update this post more than once a year since this is a slow going project haha
How it started: