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Posted: Fri Dec 17th, 2021 10:18 am

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FYI: If you tell a junkyard you need a 3.0 Vulcan engine for a Ranger it is going to be $1400-$1600. If you tell them you need a 3.0L v-6 for a 2007 Mercury Sable it will run $800-$1000. It is the same engine but the Sable one has different engine mounts bolted to it. Everything will swap over from your engine to the Sable engine.

I have a neighbor do this with his 2000 Ranger. He had about 300k on his when it started running rough and overheating. The oil looked like a chocolate milkshake. He found a 2007 Sable 3.0 that had only 80k on it and swapped it out over a weekend. He did put a new water pump, thermostat, radiator, heater coil, oil pump, related gaskets, and hoses. That was 2 years ago. He had less than $1200 tied up in the swap.

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Semi retirement