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ReptileChillock
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- 1997
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Hey, I'm finally putting my Ranger back together after what turned into a full on rebuild.
It's a 97 2.3L 5spd, poverty spec. No AC, no power windows and I swapped in a manual steering gearbox.
I'm down to the last few things I gotta hook up, but I'm not sure on some of them. I labelled *most* things, but those few I didn't really came back to bite me in the...
So, I guess let's start off with the most worrying.
Sorry it's upside down, but this is facing backwards from underneath the truck. It's the rearmost plug on the trasmission. I can't for the life of me remember where that blue plug goes, if anywhere.
There are a lot of plugs that go nowhere on this truck, and I didn't take notes.
I'll try to get more pics, but where the transmission harness meets the other 'main' harness, there are three plugs. The tranny harness only has two I can find, so I assume it's for an option I don't have. The plugs I *did* use where white and grey circular ones, the remaining plug is black.
Then there's the issue with this thing:
It's behind/below the fuel rails, coming off the block. I think I got it right, and connected what I assume is a ground wire to it. Green wire with a little pop-on cap thing.
Moving on, I have no idea where this guy goes:
And while I'm at it, I'm not sure I hooked up the throttle body correctly. I know it's not the right subsection, but I don't want to start a thread for one question.
I've attached the hose to the bottom of the TB,
and I assume that hose hooks up with the intake manifold right at the little nub that splits off before the bigger connection here:
It's a 97 2.3L 5spd, poverty spec. No AC, no power windows and I swapped in a manual steering gearbox.
I'm down to the last few things I gotta hook up, but I'm not sure on some of them. I labelled *most* things, but those few I didn't really came back to bite me in the...
So, I guess let's start off with the most worrying.
Sorry it's upside down, but this is facing backwards from underneath the truck. It's the rearmost plug on the trasmission. I can't for the life of me remember where that blue plug goes, if anywhere.
There are a lot of plugs that go nowhere on this truck, and I didn't take notes.
I'll try to get more pics, but where the transmission harness meets the other 'main' harness, there are three plugs. The tranny harness only has two I can find, so I assume it's for an option I don't have. The plugs I *did* use where white and grey circular ones, the remaining plug is black.
Then there's the issue with this thing:
It's behind/below the fuel rails, coming off the block. I think I got it right, and connected what I assume is a ground wire to it. Green wire with a little pop-on cap thing.
Moving on, I have no idea where this guy goes:
And while I'm at it, I'm not sure I hooked up the throttle body correctly. I know it's not the right subsection, but I don't want to start a thread for one question.
I've attached the hose to the bottom of the TB,
and I assume that hose hooks up with the intake manifold right at the little nub that splits off before the bigger connection here:
