Favorite diesel engine
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I work on VW for a living.
You TDI owners would like to know that the intake manifold fills up with carbon and soot and it gets restricted pretty quickly. It's a fairly easy task to remove the manifold and clean it out. A bunch of 6mm allen heads hold it all together. Symptoms are a slightly reduced acceloration above 2000 rpm.
And if you get some bigger injectors those engines get a LOT more low end torque, and smoke as well.
You TDI owners would like to know that the intake manifold fills up with carbon and soot and it gets restricted pretty quickly. It's a fairly easy task to remove the manifold and clean it out. A bunch of 6mm allen heads hold it all together. Symptoms are a slightly reduced acceloration above 2000 rpm.
And if you get some bigger injectors those engines get a LOT more low end torque, and smoke as well.
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My favorite would be the new diesel tactical generator the the Military Special Forces uses. You can set it on a workbench right in front of you and you would not know it is running. The combustion actually takes place inside of the piston in order to help keep it quite. I'd love to have one for elk camp, but they run about $25,000 a pop.
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The Japanese built (Perkins licensed) 2.2 4 cylinder diesel, used in 1982-84 Mazda B2200 trucks and a few 1984 Ford Rangers. My '83 B2200, (purchased new) would get 35+ mpg on the road. Not fast but fairly torquey. Over 100,000 miles-two glow plugs and a fan clutch were only problems. Ran great when I sold it. If it had been in the larger Ranger I may still have it. Second owner put another 100K on it.
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Originally Posted by hllon4whls
Is a t444e the same as our beloved 7.3 PSD? I was looking at the specs on the t444e and they dont look similar to the 7.3
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