bfloyd4445
Active member
I'm looking for a ford ranger diesel any year. Complete running truck or even just the engine
It is NOT the same engine as the Ranger used. The Ranger used a 2.2L pushrod diesel, not the 2.0L SOHC the 626/Escort/Tempo used. Then later the Ranger got a Mitsubishi 2.3L turbodiesel.
I had an '84 Ranger diesel, it was a piece of crap. The engine was sturdy in construction, but fit like socks on a rooster, had that goofy ToyoKogyo 5sp transmission that was geared all wrong, was pitiful on power and not all that fuel efficient (a later model 2.3L SOHC EFI gas engine can get almost as good on the highway, and actually pull itself up a hill).
I also had a 2.2L Toyota diesel truck, that was better made but still pretty pokey.
Rangerstation has some good info here:
http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/Diesels.htm