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ok, finally picked up my little ford ranger from my dad this saturday. for right now I'm using it for the bed so I can haul stuff around.
its a stock 2.3 / 5speed truck. recently replaced engine and the clutch and slave cylinder are brand new. paid $800 for it. no check engine lights but it idles high and on the highway I can have it floored @65mph and it takes like a minute to get to 70 so I'll have to work on that a little haha.
anyway...it was a BAREBONES truck. manual windows, no a/c, and no tach.
question #1are these prewired for tach so I can just go get a tach cluster from the junkyard and toss it in and go?? I'm curious if I'm just out of the rpm range and thats why it chugs on the highway...but if I had to bet its probably a half clogged fuel filter since my dad would always just put the gas he would get from wrecked cars before he crushed them in it haha.
question #2also, are they prewired to accept power windows?? its a luxury I'll want during the summer instead of reaching over to wind the passenger window down.
question #3how much of a pain in the ass is it to add in a/c to this thing??
I see the evap housing has the dimples for the evap core and the compressor bracket is present.
I'd just rip everything I need out of a donor at the u-pull.
I'm thinking I'd need all lines, a dryer, a condensor, compressor w/bolts, possibly crank pulley?, the evap core and already correctly drilled evap housing. I'm thinking thats about it unless the harness is not pre-wired for it at which point I'd need that as well...
anyway, any help you can give pointing me in one way or the other would be greatly appreciated before the temps get over 100* here....they are in the low 90's today ugh.
its a stock 2.3 / 5speed truck. recently replaced engine and the clutch and slave cylinder are brand new. paid $800 for it. no check engine lights but it idles high and on the highway I can have it floored @65mph and it takes like a minute to get to 70 so I'll have to work on that a little haha.
anyway...it was a BAREBONES truck. manual windows, no a/c, and no tach.
question #1are these prewired for tach so I can just go get a tach cluster from the junkyard and toss it in and go?? I'm curious if I'm just out of the rpm range and thats why it chugs on the highway...but if I had to bet its probably a half clogged fuel filter since my dad would always just put the gas he would get from wrecked cars before he crushed them in it haha.
question #2also, are they prewired to accept power windows?? its a luxury I'll want during the summer instead of reaching over to wind the passenger window down.
question #3how much of a pain in the ass is it to add in a/c to this thing??
I see the evap housing has the dimples for the evap core and the compressor bracket is present.
I'd just rip everything I need out of a donor at the u-pull.
I'm thinking I'd need all lines, a dryer, a condensor, compressor w/bolts, possibly crank pulley?, the evap core and already correctly drilled evap housing. I'm thinking thats about it unless the harness is not pre-wired for it at which point I'd need that as well...
anyway, any help you can give pointing me in one way or the other would be greatly appreciated before the temps get over 100* here....they are in the low 90's today ugh.
