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Aaand it's in its home for hopefully not too long. Now the fun begins. Also the Ranger kicks butt towing! It had no problem for 500 miles, the only issue was above 70mph the rover would walk around behind me so I had to limit the speed to 65 all the way home.

Tomorrow the 500 mile trip home begins. Today we wrapped up pulling the engine and transmission. I have the LT230 tcase in the back of my ranger as well as the driveshafts.

Congrats! My wife bought a Mach-E and WOW do I love it, EV's just drive so great and comfortably. So much so that I'm actively using the Ranger to build it's replacement. I still need off-road capability so I'm building a dedicated off-roader, but when that's done I'll go the same route as you...

Ford sells a standalone harness/kit exclusively for doing engine swaps with their 2.3L Ecoboost (well, all of their crate engines). It's a pretty common swap in the mustang and legacy Ranger world as I've recently learned. I've done a crapton of research in the last few days, and I bought the...

Manual for this build for sure!

For sure and that was my first thought... but looking into it further the R2.8 will be 200 lbs heavier and cost about $4k more - even if using the Ford control module. I also have a 2.3L at home to reference if I run into any issues, and frankly I really like this engine in my Ranger.

So I daily drive a 2019 Ranger - the first one my dealership sold and I love this truck. I've done many overlanding and engine mods, but still have kept it reasonable as a daily driver. An opportunity has come up to grab a 1997 Disco 1 from a buddy sans engine and transmission, and I can build...