Conor Knoxx
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I'm currently just in the planning stages, but hopefully with lots of good planning and reading here, the path to a great finished Ranger will be a smooth one!
I don't actually have the donor vehicle, or the Ranger yet - but planning a 2 wheel drive, 2004 to 2007 Ranger.
The first "obstacle" I'm running into is the manual transmission question. From reading here, I feel like a '97 to '01 Explorer is the best donor vehicle - but my plan is 100% to end up with a manual transmission (doesn't matter if its 4 or 5 speed really) - Yet all the Explorers (that I have seen) are automatics. What's the simplest solution?
The computers/electronics are already pretty intimidating, and I get the impression that I'll need to use the Explorer parts, and making those computer modules happy with a manual transmission might be a problem?
I can limit my Ranger purchase to manual transmissions, but I'm not so sure that would solve anything?
Any advice is appreciated!
I don't actually have the donor vehicle, or the Ranger yet - but planning a 2 wheel drive, 2004 to 2007 Ranger.
The first "obstacle" I'm running into is the manual transmission question. From reading here, I feel like a '97 to '01 Explorer is the best donor vehicle - but my plan is 100% to end up with a manual transmission (doesn't matter if its 4 or 5 speed really) - Yet all the Explorers (that I have seen) are automatics. What's the simplest solution?
The computers/electronics are already pretty intimidating, and I get the impression that I'll need to use the Explorer parts, and making those computer modules happy with a manual transmission might be a problem?
I can limit my Ranger purchase to manual transmissions, but I'm not so sure that would solve anything?
Any advice is appreciated!