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"Added by eddie, posted by 410custom"

While the seats were being fabbed I was also working on the center console. I had the seats mocked up and at first I was like "no way will this console fit between them....then I started to fiddle with it and turns out it would work! It is tight but it works!!"
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How? Lets recap

The console comes from a 2008 Mariner, it is really a neat piece!! Now that I made it fit I really like the way this turned out

So first of all the shifter from 08 Escape has already been installed. These consoles and shifters are almost a foot tall. A ranger console is only 7" tall (off the floor) at the shifter hump, so the mariner console needed to be shaved down quite a bit. The escape shifter already had 5" of plastic removed chopped down as far as I could take it without getting into the mechanicals of the shift mechanism

The shifter can use the stock 5.0 or 4.0 shift cable with a few modifications. I had a shift cable in the shop from a E350 van E4od that ended up working out perfectly. I had to make a metal bracket on the transmission side to hold things in place.

The Escape shifter includes wiring for the OD off button (two wires) shifter illumination (green wires) and the brake pedal / park shift interlock.
All of these were wired using stock wiring and connectors from the ranger steering column. Wires were run behind the stereo and into the console, to the shifter,. A 8 pin plug was added so the shifter can easily be removed if needed.

Once the shifter had its height reduced, the shift cable was sorted out and the wiring hooked up it was time to place the console. Measurements were taken, cardboard template of the floor was made and the console was shaved down to match the new shifter height, around 7"





Bye bye plastic bits






Two wooden blocks were fabricated and screwed through the ranger metal floor, one in the far back and one just in front of the shifter. These will mount the console. The shifter luckily mounts to the console, which makes it easy to find the correct placement. The console is very very strong when mounted with 6 screws. This shifter is mounted with 2 screws into the console and two screws into the front wood support.



Getting closer!

Once mock up was complete I had to make a wiring pass through for all the Holley wiring to come up through the floor. The shifter cable also goes through the new modified floor plate. Rubber boots were used to make things weather tight. The holley PCM is going to live under the front of the console, I spent much time finding the perfect location for all of the things that need to live in the console and the dash.



Here is where the shifter mounts to console w two screws from the side, thank goodness sometimes things go our way

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Location marked and pilot holes drilled



Good start



I did not get any pictures of the wiring pass through final, basically a rubber boot was used to go around the wiring bundle and through the floor it is held right to the cables with zip ties and the holes were finished off with silicon so no noise/ dirt or water can find it's way through

Now time to mount the Holley pcm
I really wanted to put it in a location where the diagnostics leds could be seen through the console. So that is what I did


This is where the Holley will live, in front of the shifter above the restraints control module. Plenty of room for the bundle of wires and also for airflow around the pcm



I made a simple metal bracket to pickup the front mount of the Holley using one of the mounting screws for the restraints module as the base



The rear of the Holley is held tight to the console with zip ties

Last edited on Sun May 28th, 2023 04:54 pm by Eddie Money