Diesel anyone ?

Most likely been done many times, I have seen a Mercedes 6 cyl installed in an early 3B, the guy used for snowplowing, He did a great job installing it but said the F head worked better.
I think things to concider are weight, The diesel makes its power at a lower rpm and may have drivability issues on the road.
       MHO, good luck, Lee

I did see where AMC installed a perkins in some 61 tro 65 jeeps .

Edited by Zedanny1 - 27 May 2012 at 7:47pm

Renault use a lot of perkins engins .

I was thinking about putting an Isuzu diesel in one, I used to have  PUP pickup diesel and it was a solid little 2 liter engine.  There were a couple interesting things that differed from the gas version.  The input shaft to the transmission had 13 splines rather than the 9 splines on the gas and the clutch plate was 2 inches larger in diameter as well.  My guess is that this was due to the torque difference between the motors.  I'm not sure if that is the case with other engines but it would make the conversion a little more difficult.  On the other hand you may be able to get away with a four speed tranny as well, which would make it nice to drive on the hwy.

My uncle has an mb that someone put a Mercedes diesel into. I'd think gearing would be an issue as most diesels don't have much for higher rpms

Wish we had the diesel options you guys do in S.AFrica, Id love me one of those toyota diesels.

Zedanny1 wrote: Wonder how much it would cost a guy to buy one and ship to the USA ?  my son has an old refigrated semi trailer with a diesel unit on the front of it just setting on the hill. Parts would be avabile from theroking for it.

You'd probably be better off sourcing a small automotive diesel, than the reefer unit. They're designed for constant RPM, so the injection pump wouldn't be of any use.

The Toyota 1C, 2C & 3C (turbo) diesel engines came in Cressida cars in Europe and Japan. Very impressive little engine- you get them with or without a turbo. They imported thousands of these engines very cheap to South Africa. I don't know if you have them in the USA. I put a 2C engine (without turbo) in an old 1988 Toyota Hilux 4x4 and it really impressed me. My son has the same model Hilux with a 2.4 diesel engine, but this little 2 liter 2C engine performs much better than the 2.4.

I got a 2-53 Detroit sitting in the shed, I always thought it would be sweet to put in a jeep. Only the Detroit turns half the RPMs of the L134. It would make road trips a little slow, but would make a great trail rig.