Re: Auto to Maunal
Your truck is incredibly old, so I doubt the computer is gonna have anything to do with your transmission. You can probably just get away with the pedal assembly, transmission, floor plate, and shifter. You may also need a new driveshaft if your automatic is longer or shorter than the manual transmissions and your current driveshaft has the wrong spline count or doesn't have a slip joint in the shaft itself.
As for wiring, most you'll have to do is cut the reverse light wires off of the neutral safety switch or range selector on the side of the automatic, and then splice them to the reverse light switch plug if your manual transmission has one.
The transmission will have to come from another 2.3 truck since the bell housing bolt patterns aren't the same between motors.
The factory manual transmission that would have come in your truck was the Toyo Koygo. IIRC, there was a 4-speed and a 5-speed option. Around 1988 Ford started using the Mazda M5OD. That might work as well, but I'm not sure if the speedometer cable is any different on the 2nd gen Rangers.
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