99 ranger manual t-case swap

[phonofan]

i found a 13-54 manual t case at the junk yard and was wondering what it would take to swap it into my truck. I have a 4.0 with a 5r55e transmission. I read on the forums id need an explorer front drive shaft, anything else?

 

[organic]

I believe only the 95-96 explorers have the correct drive shaft. Unless the manual 1354 came from an fx4 level II, which would have the shaft you need.

 

[rngr4x4beast]

95-97 explorer shaft and the fx4 shaft

 

[phonofan]

rngr4x4beast have you done this swap on your ranger?

 

[phonofan]

does it matter if the explorer had awd or 4wd? Id imagine id have to get one from a 4wd.

 

[phonofan]

also the front driveshaft in the donor ranger which is a 96 has a double cardan front drive shatf, will it now work?

 

[77'cj7]

I believe all the awd exploder shafts are cv, so they won't bolt up.

The 96 ranger shaft will be an inch or so too long IIRC. I couldn't find a sploader shaft, so i had the ranger shaft shortened.