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- Sep 10, 2008
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- Location
- Everett, WA
- Vehicle Year
- 1996
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 2.3 140cid
- Transmission
- Manual
I've got a 1996 Ford Ranger 2.3 5spd 2wd regular cab 189,000 no pings, no leaks, no oil burnin and have acheived 30 mpg with a K&N air filter on highway miles and I think its ready for well over 200,000. Needless to say I love my 2.3...... I just bought a 1994 Ranger Ext.Cab 5spd 4x4 with a pile 3.0 V6 in it, I hate V6's I'm an inline guy I4 or straight 6, to me they spell reliability. 93 to 96 I know some 4x4's came with 2.3's but it seemed to me they were needles in hay stacks so I bought what I could find in this case came with a V6. In this day an age its about mpg's and I don't need the power. I want to know if a swap from 3.0 4x4 to 2.3 is possible and what it would take asside from another 2.3 engine assembly, motor mounts. Are the Mazda 5spds tranny's they put in rangers the same between 2.3 and 3.0 or even 4.0? Need Help to get the V gone. Thanks
