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I have an '85 Ranger that seems to have originally had a 2.3 (or at least the cab did, I think it was a rollover) but now has a cobbled in 2.8 and the A4LD out of my 1986 parts truck. Rereading through one of the writeups in the tech library it mentions that the A4LD needs the EGR to shift. It seems to shift fine as it is, I can't help but wonder how this hack job of an engine swap left the EGR system still perfectly functional without everything hooked up. I am mainly wanting to know if anyone else has tried durasparking an automatic 2.8 before, and if so any problems they had doing it if in fact my EGR is still working and making my truck shift.
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