Aharrison26
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- Joined
- Feb 17, 2024
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- Location
- Saint Clair, Missouri
- Vehicle Year
- 2005
- Make / Model
- Ford ranger
- Transmission
- Automatic
Long time reader first time poster, I have owned most ranger combinations, I am on my 15th ranger now. I enjoy fixing them up and passing them on. I have recently ran into an issue over the last few days that I have not been able to find covered anywhere and I think I have got it solved but am looking for a more educated answer. I am currently working on a 2005 ford ranger with a 16 valve 2.3 duratec DOHC that I bought with transmission issues. I fully plan on pulling the 5r44e and rebuilding it but am in need of a ride in the meantime so I bought a salvage truck which was a 2002 ford ranger with the 2.3 as well. The info I was able to find was that the 5r44e offered in 2.3 trucks is the same from 02-11, nothing I found said the there was 3 different bellhousing bolt patterns in those years. I thought it was a direct swap from an 02 to an 05 with the information I found out there. The 02 bellhousing has a starter on the passenger side and a totally different bellhousing pattern. I searched to find out if I could swap the bellhousing and found no info. I ended up swapping the bellhousing from my original transmission and the donor. will this work? I don’t have it back in the truck but it seemed to be a direct fit. I plan on putting it in tomorrow and testing but thought I’d try and get some insight from someone with more experience than myself. Hopefully this will clear up someone else’s confusion as well. My conclusion so far and correct me if I’m wrong, and this is only talking about the 2.3 trucks, is that the 02-04 are the same bellhousing, the 05-06 are the same, and the 07-11 are the same. But all the bellhousing are a direct swap between any of the 2wd 5r44e’s from 02-11. Is this correct?
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