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"Clare Snyder" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:57:53 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:08:41 -0500, Clare Snyder

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:38:42 -0800 (PST), "
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On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 5:39:07 PM UTC-5, Ivan
Vegvary
wrote:
Installing valve seals on 1991 Mazda B2600. Engind still in
truck.
Valve guides are oddball size and the best I could find
(Felpro)
are seals that are 0.005" too large in diameter to go around
the
guides.

Thanks,
Ivan Vegvary


I am easily confused. I thought that all Mazda small trucks
were
rebadged Ford Rangers. And as such ought to have all parts
readily available.


Dan
Early Mazdas were Mazdas, also sold s Ford Couriers.

Mazdas were superior trucks to the existing Ford products..so Ford
entered into a relationship where they rebadged Mazdas with Ford
emblems.


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The courier was made BEFORE ford made their own small pickups -
Ford
rebadged the Mazda as a courier. When ford designed the Ranger,
Mazda's volume went WAY down and it didn't make sense for Mazda to
continue building their own (inferior) small truck, so THEY
rebadged
the Ford designed Ranger as their B Series.

The Ranger was a FAR superior truck compared to the Courier in SO
many
ways.

My 1991 Ranger has the Ford-built 2.3l I-4 engine. According to the
VIN decoding section of the factory shop manual the other engine
options were Ford 2.9l, 3.0l or 4.0l V-6's. It does have a Mazda
M5OD
transmission.
-jsw

The "mazda" tranny is about the only "mazda" part in any Ranger

The Ranger Wiki states that they were sold as B-series Mazdas
beginning in 1994.

Like I said - Mazda gave up on building small trucks whenFord stopped
selling them as Couriers - and started selling ford designed and
ford-built rangers rebadged as Mazdas. The Mazda 5 speed is used in
the Ranger and the F150 - the only "good" part from the Mazda parts
bin.