Recent content by takemall

Driveshaft is being cut and balanced at the machine shop. This thing has really been a lot of work and fabricating. Had to make a tranny support as the Isuzu mounts from the top and the gm mounted on the bottom. More work than I thought it would have been but its going to get done. I have a pic...

The 4bd2t weighs 710 lb and the 6 liter weighed 614. No different than adding a generator on the front end. Putting a 3" exhaust on it to let it breathe easier. It had a 2" from the factory. Hoping to pull it out by the 10th of March.

Ok guys. The cold weather and snow put me a little behind. The engine is now out of the donor vehicle. Starting to put it in the cube on Monday !!

Got the engine bay ready to go today. Everyone I've talked to said that the original ecm will still control the major operating systems. The Isuzu diesel will fit the height of the engine bay. This engine only requires 4 wires to run. I've done many v8 conversions from ecm cars to the older...

It was more than the usual piston slap. It was more of a piston knock down drag out...lol

When I say a slight knock that means at idle. When revved just a little it sounded like it was gonna blow the side out of the engine.

Guys it was knocking pretty bad. Pulled oil pan and changed the o ring around the top of the pickup tube. Put back together and still no oil pressure. So I could go ahead and pull the whole front of the body off and change the oil pump and hope for the best or just go ahead and do the heart...

Most have straight front axles in them with leaf spring suspension on the front. Rough ride but I guess you could put springs under the seat!!

Just to **** ugly. And I don't think anyone would sign on that old of a vehicle.

Most that can happen is it don't work. It'll make a nice motor home...lol...Just like all diesels I can turn the fuel up for some more power. If I need more I can put bigger injectors in it. Total cost of the donor van is 2500$. After scrapping the frame and the aluminum box I got a estimate of...

Had 304000 on the 6.0 gasser and started losing oil pressure and a slight knock. Always wanted a diesel in it and now I'm gonna get er done!!

I can wire the alternator by pigtailing the two outlet wires together and run it direct to the positive on the battery. Used it on other vehicles when putting v8s in 4 cyl cars. Just rev it up and it spikes the alternator to put out 13-14 volts.

Its a 2007. Changing tranny and all. Won't need the existing ecm as it only takes 4 wires to run the isuzu. I only will use the ignition system to turn on the fuel solenoid and to turn it over.

3.73 rear gear. Best thing is no ecm. Just gonna use a mechanical oil pressure sending unit. Can't use a 6 cylinder diesel because of the length.

Going in a cube van with a roof wing. The bread truck was owned by a local college and weighs 1000 lbs less than the cube. Gear ratios in the rears are the same. The college maintained a mpg on The truck and it got 26 mpg. So were figuring the extra lbs to knock off 6 mpg to be safe. Its got...