lil_Blue_Ford
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I'm beginning to think that I got in a lil over my head on this one... I'm getting so fed up with the truck sitting for so long that I'm about to yank the 4.0L out, put it up for sale, and drop a 2.9 back in.
The engine is out of who-knows-what. The computer is from a 91 ranger. The wiring harness for the engine and computer is out of an early 90's ranger (90-92). The vehicle this whole mess is in is my 1988 Bronco II Eddie Bauer 4x4 with a4ld auto trans.
What it comes down to is that everything is hooked up except for the electrical connections on the drivers side up by the firewall. I know how to work on electronics but have difficulty identifying some wire colors at times and almost always am working by myself which makes tracing wires slightly more difficult now that I got it all installed.
I can read wiring schematics, but those "wiring diagrams" that hanes and chilton manuals provide are, as far as I'm concerned, terrible. I've studied them for awhile and I can't seem to make enough sense out of it all. I've looked over the stuff for 4.0L swaps that I can find and haven't seemed to have had much luck figuring out the wiring part, everyone just says to get some good wiring diagrams... I'd be better off with a schematic than a diagram...
So I guess what I'm asking is either for someone who may have a better wiring schematic/diagram than what is offered by hanes and chilton to copy/scan the stuff an send it to me. I would assume that a factory shop manual would have such a creature....but I don't have a factory shop manual yet.
The other possibility that I can think of is if someone could either physically help me with putting it all together or if they can identify which connections I have to make for me. I have a list somewhere of all the wire colors on each side of the connections....
So...help? Please??
The engine is out of who-knows-what. The computer is from a 91 ranger. The wiring harness for the engine and computer is out of an early 90's ranger (90-92). The vehicle this whole mess is in is my 1988 Bronco II Eddie Bauer 4x4 with a4ld auto trans.
What it comes down to is that everything is hooked up except for the electrical connections on the drivers side up by the firewall. I know how to work on electronics but have difficulty identifying some wire colors at times and almost always am working by myself which makes tracing wires slightly more difficult now that I got it all installed.
I can read wiring schematics, but those "wiring diagrams" that hanes and chilton manuals provide are, as far as I'm concerned, terrible. I've studied them for awhile and I can't seem to make enough sense out of it all. I've looked over the stuff for 4.0L swaps that I can find and haven't seemed to have had much luck figuring out the wiring part, everyone just says to get some good wiring diagrams... I'd be better off with a schematic than a diagram...
So I guess what I'm asking is either for someone who may have a better wiring schematic/diagram than what is offered by hanes and chilton to copy/scan the stuff an send it to me. I would assume that a factory shop manual would have such a creature....but I don't have a factory shop manual yet.
The other possibility that I can think of is if someone could either physically help me with putting it all together or if they can identify which connections I have to make for me. I have a list somewhere of all the wire colors on each side of the connections....
So...help? Please??