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Rough idle, odd behavior, need help

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Rough idle, odd behavior, need help

So I have a 99 ranger 4.0 xlt automatic and it was a rollover truck that I had swapped the cab on and put a wooden flatbed. The cab was a junkyard cab in good shape and the truck ran fine. It started to slowly develop hard starts where it stumbles really hard and you have to barely play with the gas to get it to idle past 600 rpm but when it "comes to life" it's idles fine runs perfectly and has no issues. When I got the truck on the road it started to bog under load always consistently about 2 minutes into my drive then I got to repeat the trying to get it to stop stumbling but after that I pull back onto the road and it runs perfectly the rest of the way. Didn't touch any of the factory harness, double triple, quadruple checked for loose or missed connectors and it has a new IAC, MAF, TPS, fuel pump, fuel filter, air filter, and probably a few more parts I'm not able to think of right now these are not remanned or cleaned but NEW. All vacuum lines are hooked up and for sure I sprayed and sprayed starting fluid all around the lines and intake manifold makes for sure there's no vacuum leaks and I have a good 65psi to the fuel rail with no bleeding off. Help would be well appreciated I am usually very good with diagnosis but this one has me stumped. Have replaced most of what I could guess would cause these symptoms but have been wrong so far and it's getting expensive so any ideas or input or directions to look would be highly appreciated, thank you.
 
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