Still will do the swap when the 5L dies, but my truck is far from a stock engine bay. The ranger and explorer engine bay is pretty much the same in every model. The only difference is location of fuse box, coolant tank, charcoal canister, and air intake.
A lot of things you'll have to do Kurt, the factory A/C and heater box will not fit. There is no way around it. If you want to retain heat and air, you'll need to convert it to an aftermarket under the dash setup or cut the factory up. The whole area that comes off the firewall wants to live exactly where the passenger side valve cover lives. You'll need to swap to a Toyota style power steering box because the factory ford box will want to reside where the power steering pump goes. The other option is to go with a street rod front serpentine setup where it esentially moves everything to the top. The truck water pump will work, but you will need an aftermarket radiator with e-fans. I believe the Corvetter W/P has a weird inlet. The F body water pump will work too, but you still need the E-fans. You will need to plumb in a cylinder head vent into the radiator or water pump (lots of write ups on this). you will have to trim the inside of the radiator support to make the 90* elbow for the air intake. The truck intake I believe will hit the lip where the hood closes, so you can either hack all that out and sheet metal a new one in, or swap to an LS1/LS6 intake. Those fit just fine in the firewall indention. S10 Swap headers will fit with some massaging on the passenger frame rail. The driveshaft location for the front diff is weird. This is why most of the prerunner guys with LS's are 2wd. I think that is all I can remember. Whalstrom1, I dunno if he is on here or not, stuffed a 6L into his 94ish ranger. It too is very customized, and I can't remember if he swapped the intake but i think he did.
All of the stuff above is just what I have gathered in my research. Is it all a fact? doubt it. Can it be done without doing all that stuff? probably. I'll be following your build to see how it goes for sure. When I perform my swap, I'm cutting the whole front of the frame off and building it to fit the engine and transmission. I say "I" and by what I mean by that is "I will be paying a shop with WAYYY more skill than I have"
