98 3.0 into a 93 3.0 ranger

[93rangersplash4x4]

So I’ve searched around but couldn’t really find what I was looking for. I have a 93 ranger splash 4x4 3.0. I have everything to swap over to a 4.0 but was just recently offered a 98 ranger for the 4.0 stuff.

I know the 98 has coil packs etc but I didn’t know exactly what would be needed to just swap it right in.

would I need to swap the entire dash/harness/engine computer plus ignition or could I just simply remove the coil packs and convert is back to distributor? Either way I would have the entire parts truck from my understanding.

I had plans of swapping the 4.0 in at some point as I have the entire engine bay harness/trans/tcase/motor out of a 93 ranger.

But if it’s fairly simple to just swap that new of a 3.0 in I would gladly do that instead of swapping everything out for the 4.0 as the truck probably hasn’t seen the road since 2007-2008. Would love to get it going again and finish putting the 4.56 gears in the front and 35’s.

 

[93rangersplash4x4]

Are the flywheels the same as well? I haven’t went to look at the donor truck until this coming weekend but if it is an automatic would the flywheel from my 93 be the same?

sounds like it’s a pretty straight forward swap, I was just worried I wouldn’t be able to put it back to distributor and have to use all the wiring. I assume you would just remove the cam phaser (or whatever it is exactly) and drop the distributor down in?