I do hope that the major manufactures get a small diesel in a 1/2 ton to market relatively soon although it appears many of those plans have been delayed due to meeting EPA costs. You know meeting the EPA regs is costly when companies like Deere have even considered bringing gas engines back for the small 30 hp tractors that appeal to the small hobby estate owner as they can provide them several thousand dollars cheaper than a diesel.
Additional food for thought: While all this talk of adding a tractor engine is truly fascinating for an interim backyard solution for better fuel economy. Keep in mind that you will more than likely be sacrificing crash safety if you swap the engine out on a relatively modern vehicle to a different engine altogether. On a modern vehicle, even the engine is precisely engineered into the crash structure of the vehicle. On an older vehicle it may not matter as much as they were crude in regards to crash safety to begin with. Heck even the transmissions are precisely engineered into the crash structure of a modern vehicle, which is the reason you see manual transmissions being deleted on many models. Manufacturers have dropped manuals in many cases altogether because the limited demand to sell the manual was not sufficient to cover the cost of engineering and performing the safety testing in the crash structure of the vehicle with the manual. Of course some people do not consider crash safety important, but you really should.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 08:36:54 04/16/11 3 times.
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