03-13-2008, 02:31 AM
03-13-2008, 03:25 AM
They are rare beast...just like the diesel Lincoln MK7s.
03-13-2008, 04:19 AM
Yeah, reare. I saw onw at a Car show a couple years ago. First one I every saw.
03-13-2008, 02:14 PM
They also made some (but not many) diesel Escorts and Tempos in the mid 80s. They were even slower than the gas powered versions, which were SLOW.
03-13-2008, 02:34 PM
We had a diesel escort and a diesel VW at school. Theyve been worked on for countless hours, but never seen them run.
03-13-2008, 06:54 PM
I believe they are mazda engines. Not bad if taken care of.
03-15-2008, 12:35 AM
Actually, the Turbo Diesel Rangers were very common up here in the Northern part of North America! Still see the odd one running around. At one time I had looked at buying a couple of of the engines from a wrecker yard (The engines usually lasted longer than the truck did!) to stuff into my boat, as I had twin 470 Mercruisers (I-4 gas engines) and the RPM for the boat at cruise and the top RPM for the Turbo Diesel were a great match. Sold the boat before I had a chance to do the swap. (At 8 gallons an hour for gas, it was getting hard to justify, the Salmon I caught ended up being worth about 20 dollars a pound!!!!)
Great little engines, tough as nails.
Martin
Great little engines, tough as nails.
Martin
03-15-2008, 02:14 AM
its a little off topic but you gotta love the salmon fishing there. i wish i still lived in van. i was roofing in a steel mill in delta right on the river, you could see them jumping out of the water.