hi all,
anyone have a ranger with a diesel in it? or any other car, truck or van with a ford built diesel in it? anyone?

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jack

 

I know that in the mid 80's ford had used mitsubisi diesel in some of there ranger trucks. It was 4 cylinder turbo diesel. you see them on ebay from to for sale

 

Yeah, Mitsubisy L200 2.3 TDI engine.....
Mazda E200 fits ranger too but bellhousing for M5OD is unique

 

There were 2 vintage diesels in America in the '80s. '83-'84, TK/Mazda 2.2l N/A diesel, that had something like 75 HP, but would outlast every other component on the truck. '85-'87 Mitsubishi 2.3l Turbo Diesel, known for valve train trouble, but the power ratings were closer to a 2.8l V-6. I used to own an '84 with a 2.2l in it, should have kept that truck! Ford hasn't offered a diesel Ranger since, at least in the US, everywhere else they do though. But I don't believe Ford ever built their own diesels, at least for light duty use. They did build an I-6 turbo diesel for meduim duty trucks, in the F900 range, in the '80s, and it was great! And I also understand that Ford designed the 6.4l Powerstroke, even though Navistar built it. If you want a diesel Ranger in the states, you're best to build it yourself with a transplant motor.
Oh yeah, I also used to have an '84 Ford Escort with a Mazda 2.0l diesel in it as well, but the body gave out (in a BIG way), those Mazda diesels were rock solid!

 

You can find some Rangers with the Mazda 2.0 L diesel , they look odd as heck.

 

Yeah, Mazda E200/B200 2.0 diesel, also was used on Trucks, SUVs, Mazda 929...
This is small classical diesel with distributor type fuel pump. Simple and reliable, but noisy and not so fast... Runs like a small tracktor....

 

Most Diesel rangers are produced outside the Us. my buddy form el salvador had a v6 4.0 or so. its a shame they dont have those trucks here id have one. srry to get off topic. dont get man.

 

The quation is how this engine is popular in the USA? may be you will wait for 2-3 weeks to get new water pump from Japan. Now in Russia, especially in Syberia is much easier to get parts for Japanees car becouse Japan is close to Vladivostok and easy to ship cars/part via Baykal-Amur and Transsyberian railway, but how easy to get specific japaneese parts in the USA? Unfortunatly there are no Cummins engines in rangers....

 

Sorry to thread jack, but, if you were to swap a diesel into a vehicle that has to pass an emissions inspection, would it pass? As someone explained it to me before it wouldn't, but I figured I'd get a second opinion. I figured it pertained to this this thread so I figured I'd ask.

 

This maybe a little off topic but, I drove some newer Rangers with diesels in them the last time I was deployed to Iraq. They were good little trucks but slooowww! They top out around 50-55 going down hill with a tail wind. If Ford decides to offer an oil burner Ranger it will not be the one sold in other parts of the world. It would be dangerous to drive them on American highways.

 

83 to 87 Ford offered diesel in ranger. I bought one new.
For my '83 it was a $900 option.
It was a Mazda 4 cyl 2.2 liter, pushrod, non turbo, 59 hp at 4000 rpm.
Not real fast but around 32 mpg town or highway.
Needed overdrive and a bit more power.
engine was built like a locomotive.
Sadly I gave that one to son, who wrecked it.

In 85 they went to a 2.3 turbo (OHC i think) Mitsubishi engine & 5 speed.
I never drove one of those.

The 2.2 Ranger engine was WAY more stout than the little OHC diesel for Escort and Tempo. I saw both cutaway at a Ford sales show. Much heavier conrods and crankshaft.
People are reporting 350,000 miles on them at diesel enthusiast sites.

I just bought another '83, very used. Hope it's a good as my last one was...
i really enjoy driving it.

 

Pablo-UA, I'm glad to see your ok, I haven't seen a post from you for a while. The talk is that your buddy Putin will be invading the Ukraine next after stomping a round on Georgia. Looks like he is trying to rebuild the old soviet empire or something. I know it doesn't have anything to do with diesel rangers, I've just been worried about you. Your the first thing that I thought of when I heard about the invations over there. I don't like the direction Russia is headed and I think there will be trouble down the road. I hope people think about this when they vote this fall, these are dangerous times in the world. Back on topic, I believe when the world ranger comes out in 2012 that everyone will be able to get the diesel. Alan says there will be no more region specific models of ford, one size fits all. What you get in Europe, you will be able to get here and vice a versa.

 

I saw a piece on TV about some of the trouble Ford and others were having trying to satisfy all the different countries regulations into one vehicle.
It sure would make sense from a manufacturing standpoint if the parts were available worldwide...

There is a Japanese company, Hino, that makes great little diesels. I think it may be affiliated with GM but I'm not sure. Those little engines in small cube vans could easily got 300K miles. It would be great if Ford had a similar engine that we could put in the Ranger and get 35 to 40 MPG.
They wouldn't be able to keep them on the lot.

 

Yeah, Alan, CEO of ford said they were going to cut down on tooling, R&D and so fourth world wide. It will save money making one vehicle instead of three different vehicles for different markets. Europe has some pretty tight emisions standards like us, but Asisa is a little light. Just make vehicles that pass our standards and they should be good anywhere else. Ford makes some really nice vehicles for europe and austraila that we never see and thats a shame. Alan says thats all fixing to change and it's about time. Europe has some really sporty fast cars that still get better mpg than we do. They need to build cars like gas is expensive everywhere, cause it is. Diesels can be one of the answers to oil shortages, as they get more miles to the gallon and to can make fuel from old vegtable oil and can even make bio diesel. Times are a changing.

 

hi all,
on the newer fleet rigs that have to pass a certain e.p.a standards.
i don't think any D.E.Q station can even test one. at least they don't out here. but i think all e.p.a is worried about is how well they burn the fuel. or how clean they can burn it. i used to work for one of the biggest commercial
trucking co. and epa was wanting to know this or that.

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