A4LD to fm132 swap

[ty.forestcom]

Good evening everyone, thank you in advance for any help given.


I have a 1988 ranger 2.9 with an A4LD. I recently picked up an fm132 for next to nothing. A 1990 ranger also with a 2.9. Looked for 6 months to find a m5 but eventually caved in to the Mitsubishi. I am preparing to install the transmission and pulled the 2 connections coming from the fm132. I’m guessing one is a reverse switch and the other I’m not sure. It had 2 connections near the front of the doner truck leading to the wiring harness. My 1988 doesn’t seem to have them. I traced the 3 wires to a large connection but there is only one female connector they go into.

I would like to know what both the connectors on the trans are for and whether I NEED the second one or not. I know I need reverse and assume the unknown one is mandatory. If both are mandatory, how should I go about connecting the harness to my 88? Sorry if I am not using the correct terminology, I’m 17 and learn every day but haven’t had much experience with electrical.


I rebuilt my automatic and it was pretty straightforward with my ATSG service manual. No electrical problems obviously. Now I’m stumped. If anyone knows what I should do with a freshly and entirely rebuilt A4LD with a trans-go shift kit, I’d like to hear some ideas as well!


Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much! -T

 

[scotts90ranger]

The other one is the neutral sensor, probably similar wires to the park/neutral start circuit on an auto rig. None of my stuff has the neutral sensor so I'm not sure how it works but I know it's a thing, well my '90 does have that on the transmission but not on the vehicle...

 

[ty.forestcom]

Thank you, I read on another forum it’s easily bypassed by splicing the 2 wires together! My NSS won’t plug into the manual trans so I’ll have to go that route. Any suggestions on the reverse?