I have a 170-6cyl,would like to put a 5speed out of a ford ranger behind it. Anyone out there ever done that before?
The five speeds in Rangers, which are Mazda built units, do not have removable bellhousings so it would not work. Your only option is either the SROD or a T5 with a adapter. Personally, I wound up with a overdrive tranny out of a 64 Fairlane in the back of a 76 Maverick parts car I bought and I'm working on using it. I wouldn't recomend it though to anyone who does not remember how to work the old electric overdrive set-ups. Just find a T5 and buy the adapters.
Those 5 speed's in the older Rangers are complete junk. I had an '88 Ranger that had three of those transmissions go out, including one that literally imploded, blowing it's guts out all over the road. We walked a quarter mile down the road picking up parts of the transmission. The driveshaft also got bent and had to be replaced. I wouldn't touch one of those transmissions with a 10 foot stick.
