Diesel TJ?

Anyone hear or know of someone that has successfully put a diesel engine
(cummins or otherwise) in a TJ?

I wish I had seen it myself... I was told at a recent 4x4 show here there
was a TJ with a cummins in it. Can't remember the size. To make it fit he
had to stretch the frame a foot and heavily modify the hood/front end. I'll
ask around for some photos and see if anyone knows who it was.

Eric
"J.Valkyrie" (Remove Obvious)> wrote in message
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> Anyone hear or know of someone that has successfully put a diesel engine
> (cummins or otherwise) in a TJ?
>
>

Then you too, could pretend to have a Real pickup:
http://www.billhughes.com/dodgediesel.jpg
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O


"J.Valkyrie" wrote:
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> Anyone hear or know of someone that has successfully put a diesel engine
> (cummins or otherwise) in a TJ?

"J.Valkyrie" (Remove Obvious)> wrote in
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> Anyone hear or know of someone that has successfully put a diesel
> engine
> (cummins or otherwise) in a TJ?

I ran into a guy near Alpine, Texas who had a 2002 Wrangler with a Volvo
diesel. Looked like a neat installation, but I suspect the heavier
engine added a few pounds to the front axle load.

I've been thinking about it myself. Then again, I may just wait and see
what the next generation "TJ" looks like and what the engine options
will be.

El Alumbrado
"Civis Texanus Sum"

ElAlumbrado wrote:
> "J.Valkyrie" (Remove Obvious)> wrote in
> message m...
> > Anyone hear or know of someone that has successfully put a diesel
> > engine
> > (cummins or otherwise) in a TJ?
>
> I ran into a guy near Alpine, Texas who had a 2002 Wrangler with a
Volvo
> diesel. Looked like a neat installation, but I suspect the heavier
> engine added a few pounds to the front axle load.
>
> I've been thinking about it myself. Then again, I may just wait and
see
> what the next generation "TJ" looks like and what the engine options
> will be.


_Which_ Volvo Diesel? How many cylinders??

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> ElAlumbrado wrote:
>> "J.Valkyrie" (Remove Obvious)> wrote in
>> message m...
>> > Anyone hear or know of someone that has successfully put a diesel
>> > engine
>> > (cummins or otherwise) in a TJ?
>>
>> I ran into a guy near Alpine, Texas who had a 2002 Wrangler with a
> Volvo
>> diesel. Looked like a neat installation, but I suspect the heavier
>> engine added a few pounds to the front axle load.
>>
>> I've been thinking about it myself. Then again, I may just wait and
> see
>> what the next generation "TJ" looks like and what the engine options
>> will be.
>
>
> _Which_ Volvo Diesel? How many cylinders??

I'm not a Volvo expert, but it was a 4-cylinder that said "VOLVO" on the
valve cover. The fellow it said it was a 4.8L and put out about 160hp.
He said he bought it new from an industrial equipment dealer and
fabricated his own adapters. He was just leaving a fuel stop as I was
pulling in, so we didn't talk very long. His TJ also looked like it
stood quite a bit higher than my stock 4-cylinder, so presumably he had
done some suspension work to carry the extra weight of the heavier
engine.

ElAlumbrado wrote:
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> I'm not a Volvo expert, but it was a 4-cylinder that said "VOLVO" on
the
> valve cover. The fellow it said it was a 4.8L and put out about
160hp.
> He said he bought it new from an industrial equipment dealer and
> fabricated his own adapters. He was just leaving a fuel stop as I was

> pulling in, so we didn't talk very long. His TJ also looked like it
> stood quite a bit higher than my stock 4-cylinder, so presumably he
had
> done some suspension work to carry the extra weight of the heavier
> engine.

4.8L is almost 290 CID, which is a big four cylinder. It would be
interesting to find the weight and operating RPM of the engine, but
"high" and "low" respectively seem inevitable.

I suspect that in the US the best choice is the Mercedes five
cylinder, because they are plentiful in excellent condition in wrecking
yards. Volvo only sold one car in the US with a diesel: it was an
outsourced engine and ironically troublesome. In general, Volvo
mechanicals are very reliable, but that one wasn't.

Yes, that would be like the 1947 Detroit 4, 6, and V8 71, 71 being
the cubic inches per cylinder.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
http://www.billhughes.com/

wrote:
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> 4.8L is almost 290 CID, which is a big four cylinder. It would be
> interesting to find the weight and operating RPM of the engine, but
> "high" and "low" respectively seem inevitable.
>
> I suspect that in the US the best choice is the Mercedes five
> cylinder, because they are plentiful in excellent condition in wrecking
> yards. Volvo only sold one car in the US with a diesel: it was an
> outsourced engine and ironically troublesome. In general, Volvo
> mechanicals are very reliable, but that one wasn't.

=DFill L. W. Hughes III wrote:
> Yes, that would be like the 1947 Detroit 4, 6, and V8 71, 71 being
> the cubic inches per cylinder.
> God Bless America, =DFill O|||||||O
> http://www.billhughes.com/

A 6-71 is something like a two thousand pound engine, I would guess a
4-71 would be twelve to fourteen hundred pounds at the least, and as
tall as the engine in a tractor trailer (it was). If I remember right
they were two cycle engines, which meant that they were the equivalent
of double their displacement,at least in GM sales literature, and the
weight was up there. So I doubt this Volvo was anything like this
big-unless he had a one-foor body lift to clear it.

I wonder if it's even legal to put one in a truck today-I'd guess not,
they were pretty smoky and drooled like a bulldog too.
("Plenumstration", they called it....)

All diesels smoke, the difference you see is their exhaust is being
filtered since the eighties:
http://www.benzworld.org/news/news.asp?id=233
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
http://www.billhughes.com/

wrote:
>
> A 6-71 is something like a two thousand pound engine, I would guess a
> 4-71 would be twelve to fourteen hundred pounds at the least, and as
> tall as the engine in a tractor trailer (it was). If I remember right
> they were two cycle engines, which meant that they were the equivalent
> of double their displacement,at least in GM sales literature, and the
> weight was up there. So I doubt this Volvo was anything like this
> big-unless he had a one-foor body lift to clear it.
>
> I wonder if it's even legal to put one in a truck today-I'd guess not,
> they were pretty smoky and drooled like a bulldog too.
> ("Plenumstration", they called it....)