swap 4R44E to 4R55E

[Farmerjohn]

I been looking everywhere on the web,searched here but can't come up with a definite answer.

What I need to know is what I need to do to swap out a bad 4r44e out of my '96 Exploder with a '95 4r55e that I have from my totaled STX Ranger.

From the searching all I have come up with is that the 44 is 440ftlb capacity and the 55 is 550,but I can not find if I need to swap wiring harnesses,computers,or what else.I can't remember were all I've looked or what pages it was on that said this or that,but some say it's a direct swap and other say it isn't....
I have the complete drivetrain from the Ranger along with all the wiring as I was going to do a BII with a Ranger body but truck got totaled in an accident.

 

[boominXplorer]

The explorer should be a 4r55 and the ranger could be either a 4r44e or 4r55. Check the trans code on the door jam sticker.

 

[Farmerjohn]

From what I have found the 95-01 Ranger w/4.0 had the 4r55e
95-96 Explorers w/4.0 had the 4r44e,97 was when they swapped to the 5r55
And both the 4's have a trans code T

 

[Farmerjohn]

A lot of good joining this has been....figured as much.
Been doing this kind of **** for over 30 yrs,but over those years I have come to find that most who you talk to (well in this time and age) you may as well talk to a wall because if you don't get 10 wrong answers you get a 1000.Then the majority don't know their ass from a hole in the ground but still try to feed you a line of bullshit and most of those just keep passing on hearsay from some other ***** hack.
Hell anymore if one picks up a new Haynes or Chiltons it's a pile of **** compared to what the old ones used to be.That's the same quality the weekend wrenches and crackerjack *ASE's* are anymore,a big pile.

 

[boominXplorer]

Your an idiot. Acting like that won't get you any help. From what I know there was NEVER a 4r44e trans behind a 4.0, only the 3.0. I'm done and I hope no one else helps you with that attitude.

 

[Farmerjohn]

Well like many then,you may want to polish up on your info..and not go by hearsay

 

[RangerX]

Here, so you can polish up on your info.

 

[Farmerjohn]

Polish your own..........
http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/AutoTrans.html

 

[RangerX]

Fair enough. However, the chart I posted is also from the rangerstaion tech forum, transmission section, same as yours.
How can you be sure which transmission yours is?

 

[boominXplorer]

So you've checked the trans code, and you have both transmissions there with you. If you had any intelligence you would find the answer is right infront of you.