Hello All, found a donor truck that has AC (same year as my '93) and want to pull entire box from under dash that has blend doors, heater core, and evaporator -anyone have instructions to do this properly? Thanks!

 

I personally have not seen a post with a how-to on this for (any) year Ranger. Basically, it would be "one screw at a time". When I was researching the EATC mod, I ran across a somewhat splattered post on CarDomain.com where the guy removed his dash and duct work to tap into it for the cabin temp sensor. He didn't go into detail, but the pictures he had posted looked rather intimidating. LOL Sad thing is, he did all that work for no good reason...

 

The dash needs to come off
Then blower housing in engine bay
You will see the studs with nuts on them in engine bay, a couple are behind blower housing which is why it needs to come off

The studs hold the cab box to firewall

Going from memory of that vintage Ford Truck

 

I did a swap once of that box on a 97 Explorer 5.0. It was a pain. I had to remove:
- console
- steering wheel
- dash
- heater core (which had to be accessed from the engine side, and that 5.0 didn't leave much room up there.)

The early Explorers had blend door problems. That was the problem with mine. I would go around a corner, and the broken blend door would shift, and give me heat... in July. The box was fairly cheap, especially given all the complex shapes. The labor, however, for having a shop do it, was prohibitive (over $1000 back around 2000). If the Ranger has the same air box, I wouldn't fool with a used one.

 

Thanks - going to pull the equipment at the picnpull which will be also a good primer for installation -always nice to practice on a wrecked vehicle first

 

Nothing better than a practice run! :)