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I picked up the "other" 1990 ranger from my parents back yard today. It has an oil pressure-less 2.9L, but otherwise is just fine. I recently picked up a good 2.9L with bad lifters, so combining the two engines into one good engine is going to be my winter project.
Anyways, I used my 1989 F-150 to go get it. It is a 2wd, 4.9L EFI, 3.08 rear gears and T18 granny 4-spd. The trailer weighs about 1500 lbs and the ranger is about 3500 without all the crap in the bed. So the trailer was 5000+. This is the most I've ever towed with this truck since I picked it up a couple months ago.
It was no where near its limit with the 5000 lbs. It walked up the hills at 60mph like there was nothing behind it. Every day that goes by I get more impressed with the old cast iron six in a row. These 4.9s are just incredible!
Here it is:
The greasy, leaky, ticker itself:
Also had a spare 2.3 in the bed, destined for the scrapper (got some sand in it while it was sitting open in the garage
)
And here's one of the old exploder. 181000 and still DD
Anyways, I used my 1989 F-150 to go get it. It is a 2wd, 4.9L EFI, 3.08 rear gears and T18 granny 4-spd. The trailer weighs about 1500 lbs and the ranger is about 3500 without all the crap in the bed. So the trailer was 5000+. This is the most I've ever towed with this truck since I picked it up a couple months ago.
It was no where near its limit with the 5000 lbs. It walked up the hills at 60mph like there was nothing behind it. Every day that goes by I get more impressed with the old cast iron six in a row. These 4.9s are just incredible!
Here it is:
The greasy, leaky, ticker itself:
Also had a spare 2.3 in the bed, destined for the scrapper (got some sand in it while it was sitting open in the garage
) 
And here's one of the old exploder. 181000 and still DD
