1987 4x4
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- Vehicle Year
- 1987
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- Ford
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Hello I have a 87 ranger 2.9 5 speed 4x4
I picked this truck up for $600. It runs and shifts good and the body looks like it just cames off of the lot. This is a second car and I'd like todo a 4bt, 4.0, or maybe even a carbed 302. The carbed 302 sounds pretty strait forward other than the mounting & oil pan, the 4.0 seems the hardest with all the wireing but the easiest to fit in, now the 4bt would just be awesome but I'm a little bit confused on what box truck I need to take the engine & trans out off to have the ford bell housing adapter on and how much wireing and what mounts I need to change. Out of all of these I'd like todo the 4bt swap but I'd like others opinions on which would be the most strait forward todo considering wireing(but I red some 4bts have barely any wiring) right now I'm at a block on what todo.
I picked this truck up for $600. It runs and shifts good and the body looks like it just cames off of the lot. This is a second car and I'd like todo a 4bt, 4.0, or maybe even a carbed 302. The carbed 302 sounds pretty strait forward other than the mounting & oil pan, the 4.0 seems the hardest with all the wireing but the easiest to fit in, now the 4bt would just be awesome but I'm a little bit confused on what box truck I need to take the engine & trans out off to have the ford bell housing adapter on and how much wireing and what mounts I need to change. Out of all of these I'd like todo the 4bt swap but I'd like others opinions on which would be the most strait forward todo considering wireing(but I red some 4bts have barely any wiring) right now I'm at a block on what todo.