steering column interchange

[mnmattie]

when doing the 89-94 dash swap into the 84-88 rangers, can you use the explorer steering column or are they different than the rangers???

[pillen140]

cant you use your original column? idk, but i thought the only difference was the steering wheel... i may be wrong though

[mnmattie]

Well Im switching over to auto so I had planned on using the explorer column, but it isn't fitting as I thought it would. Maybe I do need a ranger column???

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bemidjipenny/ranger/explorercolumn.jpg

I had to move the mounting bracker on the column up since the whole column seems to be a hair longer than the ranger column. And there's no room to connect the ignition switch pigtail in either, so might have to make a trip to the local yard and see what i come up with.

[mnmattie]

figured it out. i had to remove the steering shaft from the column to the gear box, install the column and then reinstall the shaft. works now.