<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> I think this says it all for most of us !!

The Nissan engine sounds like it would be a good candidate. I haven't hear of them, but any Nissan diesels I've heard of seemed to be typical Japanese diesel reliable. My own conversion was rather cheap, other than the initial cost of the truck and the donor vehicle for the engine. Sold the original gas engine, which paid for the diesel truck. I sold my Mazda for the same I paid for the Sonoma. Of course the Sonoma needed some stuff (brake line, etc), and the diesel needed a timing belt, etc., but the labour was free, unless you would give me money for lost skin and blood. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" />
I'd do it again, as long as I wasn't in a hurry, like to get it ready to drive it to work cause the wife wants the car almost every day and she has to drive you there.
Whatever you do, good luck with it ! I'm sure you'll find that people here will try to help anyway possible.


Y'know, when the front dust shields over the front disc brakes rusts off and jams itself between the caliper and the disc while driving at 90 km/hr, it makes an awful grinding sound. People sure look, at least. Sounds like the truck is trying to saw itself in half. Mind you that didn't make me stop on the way home from work. Once a quick check of the brakes and steering was done without stopping, I figured thats what it was. I drive mostly rural, so it can wait till I get my tired butt home from work. A back-up about a foot at the only rural stop-sign I have, and voila! the thing falls out. I left it to return to whence it came : the earth. Cancer will continue to claim it. The joys of driving older vehicles continues.... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />