I had a Mercury Topaz diesel same diesel engine as the Ford Escort, it was a Mazda diesel engine. Was not a bad car except the starter was $750 new in 1996, found a rebuilt one for $300. Replaced starter 4 times under warranty, when warranty went out I threw car away. I purchased the car for $200 site unseen, rolled into shop I was working at on Friday mid day, primed injector pump and slapped tags on it. Then on Monday drove it to key west from Raleigh NC on spring break. Luckly it had a manual transmission thus when starter died I could roll start it.
Another problem with car is gas station attendants would run out and yell at me as I pumped diesel in the car. Trampas On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net>wrote: > That was the VW/Reualt/Volvo diesel? The Volvo and most other variants > used the rear of the cam drive for the IP, only VW to my knowledge used a > single belt on the front. > > Real pain to change a water pump on -- you must remove the crankshaft bolt, > set with Loctite and torqued to 300 ft/lbs.... > > Not a bad engine though -- the 2.4L in my Volvo cranks out 105 hp and 145 > ft/lbs torque at 10 lbs boost -- the only real disadvantage is the very > noise turbocharger. > > Very robust bottom end -- oil pump is on the crank, huge bearings, lasts at > least 300,000 miles with dino oil. Head isn't as good, tends to crack badly > between the valves, to the point the guides float, but they, unlike the Benz > heads, can be welded up. Stellite coated valves, they last literally > forever without wear. Inserted pre-chambers, the injectors screw directly > into the head. > > Peter > > > On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Loren Faeth wrote: > > Mitsubishi had small diesel pickups in the US in the early 80s. I never >> got to see one of the engines. Mazda/ford ranger was a knockoff of the >> prewar OM636. Isuzu was a different OM636 knockoff. Toada gassers at the >> time were knockoffs of BMW engines. I think their Diesels were more or less >> a knockoff of the OM636 engine also. >> >> One rumor I was told about the engine in my Frod Escort Diesel was that it >> was made by Mitsubishi. Another was that it was made by Mazda. Since all >> the Mazda /Ranger diesel engines I saw were OM636 knockoffs, I found the >> Mitsubishi rumor more plausible than the Mazda rumor. The Escort Diesel was >> essentially a knockoff of the VW 4cyl Diesel. The same valve adjusters from >> my Wabbit and the Quantum also worked in the Frod. The Frod OE shims were >> marked in thousandths of an inch, and of course the VW were in mm. >> >> The main difference between the ford and VW was that the Frod had the IP >> driven off the back of the cam, so there were 2 timing belts to replace. Of >> course the Frod was 2 liter while the VW was 1.6L. >> >> The engine in the Mits Montero looks like it could be the same as the >> frod, but there is so much plastic smothering the engine, you can't really >> see the engine. >> >> At 02:34 PM 1/5/2009, you wrote: >> >>> http://www.luxeauto.com/inventory_detail.cfm?Invid=890 >>> >>> What's going on here? Is that a factory Mitsubishi diesel, a Cummins, >>> or something else? >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> Loren Faeth >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090105/6cdbacdb/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
