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- Escanaba, MI
- Vehicle Year
- 2001
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
The Winter truck is down and I'm swapping the engine out on my 2000 3.0 4X4 Auto tranny Ranger and I wasn't sure about a couple different potential issues when purchasing the replacement engine.
1: I'm leaning toward purchasing a donor truck rather than just the engine itself, this way I can get some more parts off of it that I should need. The question here is could I get away with purchasing a 2WD truck for the engine swap if I needed to? It wouldn't be ideal because I wouldn't be able to swap the tranny later on if I needed to but that engine should work right? (I'll have to get the flex fuel engine for what I have)
2: I haven't seen anything different about valve sizing in the different years of Ford Ranger 3.0 Flex Fuel Rangers past the year 2000. I thought that in 1999 they had made changes and if I had a 1999 ranger I would have to be careful.
Anything that you particularly look for when purchasing a donor vehicle for an engine swap?
1: I'm leaning toward purchasing a donor truck rather than just the engine itself, this way I can get some more parts off of it that I should need. The question here is could I get away with purchasing a 2WD truck for the engine swap if I needed to? It wouldn't be ideal because I wouldn't be able to swap the tranny later on if I needed to but that engine should work right? (I'll have to get the flex fuel engine for what I have)
2: I haven't seen anything different about valve sizing in the different years of Ford Ranger 3.0 Flex Fuel Rangers past the year 2000. I thought that in 1999 they had made changes and if I had a 1999 ranger I would have to be careful.
Anything that you particularly look for when purchasing a donor vehicle for an engine swap?
