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- Vehicle Year
- 1996
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
- Engine Size
- 4.0L V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
Someone tell me if this will work, my intuition says it should but maybe I'm wrong.
My 96 4.0L has the cone style filter with a cylindrical shaped MAF housing. This uses a small white pigtail connector with 4 wires/pins.
My 2000 4.0L has the square box style air filter and external MAF with a flat pigtail connector, again 4 pins/wires.
My problem is I put the 2000 cab on the 96 frame & powertrain.
Now the mounts for the air box don't match due to change in styles.
I see that I have two options:
Fab the new cab support to accept the older style cone filter and MAF OR use the newer airbox & MAF but modify the pigtail on side to match up (wire colors are identical).
Which route should I take? I would like to just cut and splice the connectors as that would be easiest but am wondering if I will run into engine running problems if the two MAF's aren't identical.
My 96 4.0L has the cone style filter with a cylindrical shaped MAF housing. This uses a small white pigtail connector with 4 wires/pins.
My 2000 4.0L has the square box style air filter and external MAF with a flat pigtail connector, again 4 pins/wires.
My problem is I put the 2000 cab on the 96 frame & powertrain.
Now the mounts for the air box don't match due to change in styles.
I see that I have two options:
Fab the new cab support to accept the older style cone filter and MAF OR use the newer airbox & MAF but modify the pigtail on side to match up (wire colors are identical).
Which route should I take? I would like to just cut and splice the connectors as that would be easiest but am wondering if I will run into engine running problems if the two MAF's aren't identical.