Re: Farm truck engine convert question

Posted by Hal/WA on November 06, 2006 at 21:34:07 from (66.45.175.118):

In Reply to: Farm truck engine convert question posted by mud on November 06, 2006 at 12:40:48:

If you have the diesel and stick transmission, it might be practical. Otherwise I think it would be cheapest to put back in the engine the truck is designed for. And if you have to deal with emissions inspection, it is a real can of worms to use any other engine, much less converting it to a diesel.

A friend of mine bought a recovered stolen Ford pickup some years ago. It had been a diesel, but the engine and transmission had been stolen. The chassis only had about 30K on it and it was in almost perfect shape, except for the missing engine and transmission. After pricing replacement diesels (probably the reason the pickup had been stolen to begin with), he converted it to a carbuerated 460 and C-6. He did a real nice job, and the pickup worked just great. Until he had to have emission inspection done on it....there was no way it could pass with the earlier engine and of course could not pass as a diesel. He went round and round with the licensing people, but they would not give him an exemption. He ended up selling this very nice pickup to a guy from Idaho, where they didn't have inspections, for about half what it should have sold for.

The electrical systems of those trucks is fairly complex, with different wiring systems depending on which engine the pickup was made for. If I was going to try to do it, I would try to find a similar truck with a bad body, but good drivetrain, like maybe a rollover, and plan on transferring a bunch of stuff from the parts truck.

It's sure not as easy as it was in the old days. My friends and I put a number of different engines in cars and trucks and no one really cared. They might now. Good luck!

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