After a year owning my 97 Ranger, I must say I am impressed with that truck. It had been a work truck and it was filthy and had a lot of dings all aorund the bed and a couple of larger dents. At 130k miles (bought with 124) it uses no oil in 5 k miles. I changed the plugs, trans fluid and diff fluid. It's a stick 4 cylinder with the 3.45 rear end. Manual steering but it has AC which works fine. Only issue for me is the blower motor resistor. I have replaced it twice in a year and the fan only works on high speed again. Not sure if it's the cheap arse Chinese parts or maybe the motor is just on it's las leg, but it was pretty clean when I replaced the first resistor and it blows great on high speed.
I had a 92 F150 with the 300 and 5 speed and this truck gets twice the mileage of the F150.
regards
Mech
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