Seems like Diesel Engines are falling out of the sky so to speak.

Dec my Wife Bro in Law and I pull a engine out of a 84 300SD. He wants to drop one in his 82 240D and 4-spd.

Then in Jan I pull one out of a 85 300TD, and a few other good parts. this one had just been set and still had the 3rd row seat, Cross bars and perfect Tail Lights. pulled the front tortion Bar and couple other things.

Then I pull another 617 engine out of a 80 300SD. this one had been hit super hard in the L/R and the drivers door will not close, so tweeked the body good. best thing is the eng and trans was just rebuilt. it was totally clean. they had written on the air cleaner foam a milage of 269122, and the spedo showed 270300. and a date of 5-21-12. so this shows 1178 miles, so think I may have scored a good one.
Plus the guy up graded from the 617.950 to the 951. so that is going from 110hp to 123hp. so that was a good thing. I was surprised when I saw the .951 on the side of the head.

My Datsun Diesel PU 5-spd transmission has a bearing that is complaining. I drained the trans oil and is grey/yellow collor with some silvery look to it.
I spent some time at a buddys machine shop trying to swap the 5-th gear from a junk 5 spd to a good 5-spd I have with a lower gear 5 gear. got this eng and a trans that was shpped in from Japan about 20 years ago, (one of those 25K mile used engines) so don`t know what this 5-spd was used in. after taking the 5th gears out, discover they are made different and won`t swap over.
The out put shafts on these 5-spds are 14" long from the rear splines to the 5th gear, and needed a 38mm or 1 1/2" socket. found a 38mm, cut it in 1/2 and welded ea end to a black iron pipe to slip over the shaft. now I have a 2ft long special socket. that big nut on the transmissions that came in these trucks are Left handed threads. this other one is right handed threads. (trial and error)
I bought new nuts from the dealer, and this big one is $20 and wouldn`t work if we coud have swapped the gears. you would have thought these gear boxes would be the same.

So last night I get to looking around in CL and found a Nissan SD-22 Diesel engine and 5-spd from a 82 Datsun PU that was hit in the left front. guy bought it for a project and has had it in his garage for a while and wants it gone. says it has less than 110K miles on it for $550. these eng/trans are rare, sooooo I called him @ 8:30 this morning, Paypaled him the $ and now am the proud owner of another engine/trans.

Going up to Portland in 2 weeks in the 240 (Grand Daughters 4th BD) and will bring the transmission home, then going back in July (Daughter having another one, a boy) so will have this new trans in the old Datsun, and use it to go back for the engine. Just hope she is up to the trip up and back.

Now to figure out where to stack one more engine.


Then the guy tells me he has a 82 240D, w/o the engine. had some work done to it and the shop didn`t reatach the hold down bracket for the Oil Cooler lines on the AC Bracket. the vibration cracked a line and lost the oil.

Aaaand.... he has a new, never used 240D turbo Kit/set up never been used.
This is something that was sold in Europe I guess????


Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works