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petrol t diesel engine swap.
« on: September 05, 2010, 23:55:00 »
I have finally had enough of trying with my 2.25 petrol engine, tried everything to get it running, compression is good, has a spark fitted a known good head thinkin it may be warped or cracked, replaced the entire ignition system and fitted a new carb!!!!!!!!!!!!!still no joy. SO i have sourced a 2.25 diesel lump and am soon going to swap them over. Is there any particular pitfalls i should be aware of? or anything peculiar i should know about? Many thanks guys, Fuzz.
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Re: petrol t diesel engine swap.
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 22:54:12 »
The main thing is that you need a fuel return to the tank and thats about it.
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Re: petrol t diesel engine swap.
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 22:58:53 »
I did think that would be all but always best to be sure!! It's an ex military model with twin tanks..so I'm right in thinking that I only need to plumb the return into one of the tanks?
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Re: petrol t diesel engine swap.
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2010, 17:40:13 »
far as i know mate.
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Re: petrol t diesel engine swap.
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2010, 14:47:56 »
you will need a stop cable too and obviously a ballast resistor for the glow plugs
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Re: petrol t diesel engine swap.
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2010, 14:17:34 »
you'll also need to get hold of the throttle assembly.  I kind of fiddled with all the linkages and made up a rod so that it worked of a series of rods rather the original rod to cable set up.  you'll need to do something about the vaccuum too.  the diesel has a butterfly valve in the intake that's connected to the servo and a vac resovoir. I did away with all this and fitted a vac pump off a MGF (sorry for my spelling in this).  I made up a twin pulley to run off the water pump.  brakes actualy work now :)

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