On Oct 22, 9:39*am, "Eisboch" wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message

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jim wrote:

Even my car can and has towed 2300 lbs. It's not a big deal.

Ask Don how he stops the little Ranger 4x2 and the 2300 lb load. I would
bet that the little itty bitty transmission in that little Ranger 4x2 is
about at it's end of life.

I don't know about that. *The Ranger is a tough little truck for it's size
and should handle that weight without any problems.
It uses a Mazda transmission that has been well proven.

My son in law had a Ranger, I'm guessing '95 or so, had the Mazda four
cylinder with manual tranny. Well, the tranny started leaking pretty
badly out of the rear seal, and he had a friend that put a junkyard
tranny in it. He filled it with gear oil, like most manual trannys.
Well, when everything cooled down on the truck at night, the next
morning it was very hard to shift. We did a little research, lo and
behold in the shop manual, there it was. The manual tranny used ATF
fluid as a lubricant!