5.0 Manual swap- 2002- Hurdles

[b3million]

The f150 transfer case is a TIGHT fit in a ranger, but it can be done. My truck is a 2001 and it really doesn't care that I removed and replaced the ECU with a megasquirt. PATS is inside the ECU, so if you remove it, you also remove PATS.

You have any pics of the tcase fitment? I'm gonna go with the 302 on account of the AC bit, but again, haven't quite figured out the computer.
I have no idea if an explorer harness would even plug up to a truck/foxbody ECU to begin with- if it's a few pin swaps here and there, good deal, but if the plug is completely different, that's a whole nother level of "nuh uh."

Not to mention, the Explorer 302 is coil pack ignition and most of the 302s that had manual options came with distributors (if I interpret the junkyard pictures correctly.) That is obviously not something I want to break by swapping an ecu.
What are my options for dealing with that? (running an explorer motor to keep coil pack ignition and still being able to run a manual)

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

JY would be best place, most aftermarket ones I have found are set up for the smaller starter.

Here is a write up I did on it awhile ago:

Thread 'SBF Engine Seperator Plates'

Mar 13, 2020

The whole thing came about when I tried to reuse the 4.2 seperator plate I got with my M5ODR2 with a '96 302 starter. The starter hole was just barely too small. The plate from my C5 was identical but didn't have a neat little foam seal around the crank. Faced with the rather terrifying prospect of either pulling the t-case/trans or engine or returning a defective starter to Rockauto I did some research and discovered the dark world of differing Ford starter depths and the different sized holes Ford put in the seperator plates to try to keep people from mixing and matching them.

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The mod is you basically dremel the starter hole slightly bigger, not much to take a picture of.

 

[scotts90ranger]

You should really look at the differences between the 1356 T case and 4406 T case, if I remember right the offset is like 3" more on the 1356 that would be in a 5L F150 which would put it deeper into the frame rail and below the frame, if you're planning on sticking with the stock axles that could be an issue.