kishy
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- Location
- ON, Canada
- Vehicle Year
- 1985
- Make / Model
- Ranger, RCLB
- Engine Size
- 95 2.3 EFI Swap
- Transmission
- Manual
- 2WD / 4WD
- 2WD
This is a little...un-straightforward...
I'm putting an EEC-IV twin plug 2.3 into my '85 Ranger. Electrically, with regard to the engine harness, ICM, ECM and so on, think of it as a 93/94. It's going to be a hodge-podge of parts, but for these purposes...it's a 93/94.
Currently, my truck does not have a tach in the cluster, and I have an aftermarket one that just kind of rolls around tucked on the top corner of the dash by the A-pillar. The tach is not aging well (it sticks in cold weather), and I'd like the cleaner look of a tach in my cluster.
Because my truck is an 85, I can only take a tach/cluster from up to 88 and have it physically fit. I found a 1988 2.9EFI Bronco II at a local yard. It has a tach.
What I would like to do is take apart the Bronco II cluster, take out the tach half of the cluster, and add it into my 85 cluster replacing the face that has the warning lights and fuel gauge. I do not want to use the entire Bronco II cluster because my truck does not have the light panel in between the left and right halves, but the Bronco II does, and I do not want to retrofit that.
So the core questions here are:
1 - Can the tach be transplanted into my cluster physically? Period Ford clusters are usually pretty modular and come apart into interchangeable chunks, in my experience.
2 - Is there a way to make the tach from the 88 V6 accurately display the RPM of the 93 4-banger? I've read something about needing to change which contact is grounded in the tach (?), but also read that the tach signal is different between the TFI distributor engines and distributorless...so I'm not sure exactly what's up here.
Thanks
I'm putting an EEC-IV twin plug 2.3 into my '85 Ranger. Electrically, with regard to the engine harness, ICM, ECM and so on, think of it as a 93/94. It's going to be a hodge-podge of parts, but for these purposes...it's a 93/94.
Currently, my truck does not have a tach in the cluster, and I have an aftermarket one that just kind of rolls around tucked on the top corner of the dash by the A-pillar. The tach is not aging well (it sticks in cold weather), and I'd like the cleaner look of a tach in my cluster.
Because my truck is an 85, I can only take a tach/cluster from up to 88 and have it physically fit. I found a 1988 2.9EFI Bronco II at a local yard. It has a tach.
What I would like to do is take apart the Bronco II cluster, take out the tach half of the cluster, and add it into my 85 cluster replacing the face that has the warning lights and fuel gauge. I do not want to use the entire Bronco II cluster because my truck does not have the light panel in between the left and right halves, but the Bronco II does, and I do not want to retrofit that.
So the core questions here are:
1 - Can the tach be transplanted into my cluster physically? Period Ford clusters are usually pretty modular and come apart into interchangeable chunks, in my experience.
2 - Is there a way to make the tach from the 88 V6 accurately display the RPM of the 93 4-banger? I've read something about needing to change which contact is grounded in the tach (?), but also read that the tach signal is different between the TFI distributor engines and distributorless...so I'm not sure exactly what's up here.
Thanks
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