Very likely you'll want the P/S pump.

Having done a swap I can tell you that having the complete donor car handy saves tons of time. Little stuff like a length of heater tubing or hose to make an adapter, grabbing a bolt or two, making an electrical connector, a section of radiator support....and the list goes on and on.

You might find it helpful to adapt existing gauges to the dash rather than new gauges to the engine. Maybe use the donor kick down switch. Drive train components might be needed.

I'm sure my swap would have taken twice as long without the donor right there...and mine was a simple swap.

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I drove my swap for a few miles without power steering. Tooling around daily whatever stuff you probably wouldn't miss it much, but offroad or backing up a trailer? You'll want PS.

I cut the steel ends off my power steering lines on the Yota side and brazed JIC fittings on them. The MBZ power steering pump actually worked just fine with a standard JIC fitting, which was seriously convenient. Then had a local hydraulic shop fab up some hoses with JIC fittings.

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What's that?

What i ment about the power steering pump was do I need the Mercedes pump or could I use the one in the Ranger?

Got the gas tank in but broke a fitting so I wasn't able to try and drive the truck again. It looks like somebody drilled holes in the old gas tank, i hit it with a hammer and nothing crunched. Also Got a little body work done.

For some reason I can post pictures right now but I'll try tomorrow

Either way can be made to work, but I think by far the easiest way is to use the MBZ pump and have conversion hoses made up to connect to the Ranger PS, vs having to fab up brackets and pulleys and find a way to mount the Ranger PS pump on the MBZ engine.

For alternator, there are lots of options available for stock or upgraded charging capacity in the existing alternator location. I fabbed mounts and had the stock dual belt alternator pulley bored out to install a Delco 22SI medium/heavy truck alternator. 150A continuous duty(whole different animal from a standard 140A light-duty alternator) - I wanted LOTS of power available and have not regretted it at all.

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617 swapped Toyota Pickup, 22-24 MPG, 50k miles on swap