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Where to find a Heater Box for my 1st Gen Ranger 2.9L?


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I have an 86 Ranger 2.9L, and when I bought the truck the heater box, the plastic housing that the blower motor and resistor mount to, was missing. I have searched high and low, at every junk yard in town and quite a few out of town, and I just cannot locate this part. Even Google can't help me. My truck did not come with the A/C option, and I'm assuming that my heater box is supposed to look like the one in the photo seen "here" on TRS.com Any help would be very much appreciated.
 


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That would be a "non A/C" box. 82-95(?) fit it. I have used one from an Explorer before, 1993 model, so I know that those fit.
 
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Thanks for the tip; I'll do another sweep of the salvage yards and see if I can find one of those. It gets kinda cold in my truck without a blower motor for my heater, so if I can find a box I would be very happy.
 

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i used a non ac setup from a g van on my b2 when i was pressed for time before. they could work good for motor swaps too because they are metal and easy to weld.


of course that could be harder to find then a ranger box depending on where you live.
 

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An AC heater box while much more bulky will work too, just plug the holes for the evaporator lines.

They seem to be a lot more common in the yards around me than the non-AC boxes.
 

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