Explorer to Ranger electronic climate control conversion

[6770shelby]

I’m wanting to swap the electronic climate control from a 2000 explorermountaineer into a 2000 Ranger. I know this swap has been done before but I can’t find any information on it. The links that I’m finding are dead. Anyone done this before or have any instruction/tips?

 

[Jim Oaks]

What is the difference between them?

 

[JoshT]

I think he's wanting to swap in the EATC system from an Explorer. Electronic Automatic Temperature Control. None of the Rangers came with it. I could have sworn that there was a write up on it around here once upon a time. Memory says that Rwenzing (not sure I have that spelled right) did a writeup about it back in the day, but I could be remembering something from RPS or one of the other forums back then.

I never paid much attention to the swap myself. More complex than I wanted in AC controls, and IIRC it had a minimum temperature which I didn't want. I think the minimum temp was in the 60s. If it's 50 degrees out and I want the AC on, I want the damn AC on.

Anyhow if OP will search Explorer EATC swap he might find what he's looking for somewhere. It's often referred to by those initials and might help weed out some of the results.

 

[6770shelby]

I did, the links that I found were dead. Thus the request….

 

[Jim Oaks]

Post the dead links.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I find this:

Climate Control Panel Swap | The Ranger Station

 

[6770shelby]

The cardomain link is the one I’m trying to get to.

 

[scotts90ranger]

That system is fine when everything works good, but when it doesn't it's really annoying... on my Explorers I think both have stuck blend doors which would cause all the problems and neither have working A/C...

If you do find info on it if you wouldn't mind keeping things updated as I am interested in getting the sploders working right. I'm buried in projects and will be for another month or two but if I get to it and start looking into it I'll try to add info here if I remember...