Brand New P4AT 2.2L Turbo Diesel Engine for Ford Ranger PX 2011-2022

About this engine

The Ford Ranger PX is a work vehicle first, and when its P4AT 2.2L turbo diesel lets go, the jobs it was booked for do not wait around. This page is the fix: a brand-new P4AT engine for Ford Ranger PX models built between 2011 and 2022, produced to OEM fitment specification and internally upgraded beyond it.

Every engine is hot and cold tested once assembly is finished, carries a heat tab, and is backed by a parts warranty of 12 months or 50,000 km, whichever arrives first. Freight to anywhere in Australia is included. Before you commit, we run your VIN against the engine so there are no surprises when the crate is opened. The number to call is 1300 200 320.

When the Ranger is your office: common failure points

Plenty of PX Rangers do the work of a small business on their own: tools in the back, trailer on the ball, quotes done from the front seat. So a dead engine is not just a repair bill, it is downtime, and every week the ute sits is a week of jobs handed to someone else.

Engines rarely fail without a story. Maybe the oil light flickered on a hill months back, maybe a head gasket let go on a hot day towing, maybe the wear simply added up over a couple of hundred thousand hard kilometres. In a common-rail turbo diesel like this one, the usual suspects are familiar ownership topics rather than mysteries: worn injectors, carbon accumulating in the EGR and intake tract, a turbocharger past its best, or an overheat that was shrugged off once too often. Once the damage reaches the bottom end, patch repairs stop making sense and the real decision starts: source a second-hand engine, rebuild the original, or fit a new one.

A wrecker engine trades price for uncertainty, because you inherit somebody else's maintenance habits sight unseen. A rebuild keeps your own core but adds machine-shop lead time to the days already lost. A brand-new P4AT long engine avoids both problems. Nothing in it is worn, nothing about its history is unknown, and it can be on a truck to your workshop while the old engine is still coming out. For an owner who bills by the day, that last part often decides it. It also means the rest of the ute, from the canopy to the racks to the tray fit-out, keeps working exactly as it is.

P4AT fitment across the PX range

The P4AT is a four-cylinder 2.2L common-rail turbo diesel, one of the diesel engines offered in the PX-generation Ranger. It belongs to an engine family that Ford and Mazda shared, which is why the same basic engine also served in the BT-50 of the same era; the two utes were engineered side by side. In the Ranger, the P4AT was the workhorse choice for fleet utes, single cabs and tradie dual cabs, and it spent more than a decade proving itself in exactly that role.

The replacement supplied here matches OEM fitment specification, so mounting, connections and driveline mate up as they did from the factory. Inside, it goes further than the factory did. Components the original design was known to be hard on are upgraded to higher-grade parts during the build, among them the connecting rods, the crankshaft and the bearings, so the new engine is not carrying the old engine's known vulnerabilities.

This listing covers Ford Ranger PX models built from 2011 to 2022 that were originally fitted with the P4AT. The engine code is the thing that matters, not the badge on the tailgate, and across an eleven-year production run there were updates that a model year alone will not reveal. Ancillary mounts, sensors and plumbing can vary between build dates even under the same code. That is why the VIN check comes first: send the 17-character VIN from your rego papers or build plate, and we confirm this engine suits your exact vehicle before dispatch is arranged.

If your Ranger left the factory with the five-cylinder diesel instead, this engine is not interchangeable with it. The VIN settles that question too, in minutes, at no cost, and it is a small step that prevents an expensive mistake. Ring 1300 200 320 with the number in front of you, or include it in a written enquiry, and you will get a clear yes or no rather than a guess.

From crate to first start: inclusions and logistics

The engine supplied is a long engine: block, crankshaft, pistons, head and valvetrain assembled as one unit. Bolt-ons are not part of it, so your turbocharger, injectors, DPF, manifolds and accessories come off the old engine and go onto the new one. This is standard for replacement engines of this type, and it keeps the price of the engine itself down, since you are not paying twice for parts your ute already has. Budget time for your workshop to inspect those parts during the swap; refitting a failing injector to a fresh engine undoes the point of the exercise.

Each engine is run through a hot and a cold test after it is built, and no unit is crated until it passes both. A heat tab is fitted before shipping. If the engine is later overheated, the tab records it permanently, and heat damage sits outside the warranty, which makes a pressure-tested cooling system part of any competent installation.

The parts warranty is 12 months or 50,000 km, whichever comes first, and it depends on installation by a qualified mechanic. Freight is included Australia-wide at no charge, city or country. Keep your old engine accessible until the swap is done, since it supplies the transferred components. From the moment your VIN is confirmed, the process is straightforward: order, crate, transport, install, back to work. Questions about any step go to 1300 200 320.