Hello Keith. I think JtF would be good place to have some information on the change from gasoline engine to diesel engine and it could be available in the Biodiesel section of the Journey to Forever website.
In Paraguay the conversion from a gasoline engine to a diesel one is often done in a good mechanic shop. Jeeps are the number one vehicles with engines changed to an used Japanese diesel engine with transmission originally from a light truck or a SUV like Toyota Dyna, 4Runner, Nissan Terrano, Nissan Patrol or Mitsubishi L-200 pickup. They are imported from the port of Iquique in Chile, they came originally from junk yards in Japan. It much easier to change engines with rear wheel drives vehicles like a pickup or an automobile likes the old Ford Granada, Chevrolet Nova than front wheel cars with gasoline engine from Europe. Here, the front wheel cars with a gasoline engine here are mostly modified to use Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) with a big 80 - 200 litres gas tank be cause the gasoline in litres cost double compared to LPG in litres. So they avoid the trouble to find a more expensive diesel engine and transmission that matches with the front axle unless the model has gasoline and diesel options from factory like Peugeot, VW or Fiat for example. Best Regards. Juan Pilar -Paraguay -----Original----- From: Keith Addison [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May/26/2006 15:49 For: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Conversion tyo diesel Pt 1 It's not easy to help Doug, no reply, no pictures. I'll try cc'ing this to him direct as well. This is good information Doug offered, in this thread and the "American diesels" thread, quite a few people said so. Who thinks it should all be available in the Biodiesel section of the Journey to Forever website? Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever >Hello Doug > ><snip> > > >Have pictures of bellhousing being made here but not sure where to > >put it or send. > > > >Doug > >Will you check this message please? > >http://snipurl.com/qq84 >[Biofuel] Conversion tyo diesel > >Impressive information you're providing. > >There's a folder at JtF reserved for photographs and so on for the >use of the list. It's not actually part of the JtF website, it's just >for us here at the list. Members can send me stuff the list wants to >see and I'll put it there and post a link. > >Send me the pictures direct and I'll upload them and do that. > >I'm not against having this resource at JtF, and thanks for offering. >I have to consider it though, also how to handle it, and just where >to put it. Organising it would be quite a lot of work, and there's a >queue. But don't be discouraged, let's see how it goes and we'll see >what we can do. > >Quite a lot of people have been writing to Journey to Forever asking >about diesel conversions, nearly all of them Americans. Quite a lot >also want to know if "biofuel" (turns out to be biodiesel) will work >in their gasoline motor. Some of them just get impatient when you >tell them it won't. "Why not? What do you expect me to do then?" > >So it might be popular, but that's not the only criterion; it's not >our focus, but we don't really make rules about it. People here like >what you're doing, that's always a good recommendation. > >Please keep going. Send me the pictures. > >Best > >Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
