TheGovernor916
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- 1997
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- Ford
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Okay, so Two weeks ago I hydro locked my 1997 2.3 L 4-cyl 5-speed manual Ranger, and threw a rod out the side of the block.
Being that my Ranger is a prerunner/race truck project, I decided to use this as an excuse to do a 4.0 Swap. So I found a 4.0l OHV on dezertrangers with trans attached. The seller said that the engine was a 1996, so i figured my truck doesn't need to be smogged for awhile next time it comes around it'll probably no longer be street legal anyway because it'll be a race truck, so the whole year older thing didn't bother me. I took the guys word that it was a 96' and went to install it without much research into the differences between an OBD I and OBD II engines or the difference between A4LD Trans and the 4R44E. Well after some wiring issues and stuff not linking up, me and my buddy assumed something was amiss. And a trip to the local Pick-n-pull confirmed what we had feared, the engine I had bought was a 94' not a 96'.
So I'm in deep now and am trying to figure out the best course of action.
My question is if anyone has ever rewired a truck from OBD II to OBD I? I don't care about smog, I'm just trying to gauge how big a PITA it'd be to rewire the truck.
Thanks
Being that my Ranger is a prerunner/race truck project, I decided to use this as an excuse to do a 4.0 Swap. So I found a 4.0l OHV on dezertrangers with trans attached. The seller said that the engine was a 1996, so i figured my truck doesn't need to be smogged for awhile next time it comes around it'll probably no longer be street legal anyway because it'll be a race truck, so the whole year older thing didn't bother me. I took the guys word that it was a 96' and went to install it without much research into the differences between an OBD I and OBD II engines or the difference between A4LD Trans and the 4R44E. Well after some wiring issues and stuff not linking up, me and my buddy assumed something was amiss. And a trip to the local Pick-n-pull confirmed what we had feared, the engine I had bought was a 94' not a 96'.
So I'm in deep now and am trying to figure out the best course of action.
My question is if anyone has ever rewired a truck from OBD II to OBD I? I don't care about smog, I'm just trying to gauge how big a PITA it'd be to rewire the truck.
Thanks