Well i really wanted to keep her stock but, after crusing for a bit it's apparent that for the amount of driving i will do with this car she needs some help. Really boils down to an overdrive. So I installed an 8.8 rear, which is really simple to do. Now i have posi, 3.73 gears, and disks on all shoes. After reading through threads on overdrives here on the forum i decided to go with the 85-87 5 speed ranger toyo kogyo gear box. I found one local in a salvage yard for 175 pulled. I also grabbed the driveshaft for 40 bucks, as it has the yoke and ford flange to fit the 8.8. I went straight to the car wash and degreased all the engine oil and grime off the trans. To my delight i found that its a rebuilt box. The rebuilders heat stamp and a number were on it. So i called them and found it was rebuilt just 10k miles before the truck went into the yard.