Thread: Convert Petrol to Diesel

Replace almost every part except the block (someone will confirm this I'm sure).

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Colin

Does the diesel offer any advantage over the petrol?
Or maybe that should be, what are the pros and cons of each?

I want to do a overland trip in high altitudes and was wondering if a diesel would be better ?????

I am not sure of the details, but I read somewhere that some engines (2 1/4) where built to be able to be swapped between petrol and diesel, I cant find the link sorry. From memory these engines (military) could have the spark plugs removed and the dizzy removed and an injector pump and injectors fitted and then it was a diesel. The same article said this could not be done to a normal 2 and a 1/4 petrol as as the normal petrol was not up to it.
Wish I could find the link so annoying!!
Chris

Should ahve told me you were looking for one a couple months back.... I took 4 or 5 engines to the scrappy.... you could have given me a coupla bucks for them

What do you do to have so many engines ?

Can anyone confirm some engines can be converted? One thing I read I have been wondering ever since.
Chris

providing you stay within the confine of the year grouping of the engines yes it can be done and its relatively easy.

the really really short version is unbolt the head remove the dizzy and bolt in the injector pump and the diesel head then remove the carby, while that stuffs off you insert the diesel rods, crank and pistons. you should also swap the cam from the petrol cam to the diesel cam, but the petrol cam will make it work as a diesel. putting a diesel cam in a petrol block does make for a bit of an improvement in the petrols performance.

you can use a petrol manifold on a diesel but not the otherway aound