From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Fri Mar 26 04:25:35 2004 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Friday, March 26 2004 Volume 01 : Number 1402 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: [db] delusions of Diesels... :) [db] 97 E300 diesel - Good car? Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:08:03 -0800 From: Kevin Pekarek Subject: Re: [db] delusions of Diesels... :) On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:06:53AM -0800, john wrote: > However, the technical issues abound... main issue will be mating the Benz > TD to the AisinWarner 30-80LE 4 speed automatic... I'm kind of committed and partial > to it since I paid over $350 so far to create an adapter to mate it to > the NP219. I will consider using the Benz AT with a divorced xfr case. > > The Benz engine is straight forward, simple, reliable and easy to work on. I'd have to agree with Jim Blair on this one. I think you'll be better off using the Nissan 3.3L turbodiesel. International used them in scouts and bolted them to a TF727, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get it to bolt up to the jeep transmission. The nissan engine will be more suited to the gear ratios you have in the J-10, and will offer you a powerband more suited to offroad, when the fact that you are in a jeep and there is a trail in front of you (or the hill in your driveway...) gets you. The engines themselves are extremely robust. I had half considered using one to make a diesel SJ myself. The cummins ISB (think dodge) would be too much of a pain, and the chevy 6.2/6.5, while an option, makes the beast noseheavy, and a bunch of other weird issues pop up. Then keep the two 300Ds how they are. You always had a softspot for a 123. K - -- Kevin Pekarek Redwood City, CA (near San Francisco) and Los Osos, CA (near San Luis Obispo) 74 Cherokee 2 door (258 1bbl, T15, D20, open 3.54 d44's) 77 Cherokee 4 door S (401 4bbl, TH400, BW QT, open 3.54 d44's) 85 190D (601, 5spd) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:44:52 -0800 From: "Daniel F. Tilley" Subject: [db] 97 E300 diesel - Good car? What is known about the engine in the E300 diesel? I have read that starting in 97, the engines are better than the earlier models. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem &item=2469860559 Daniel F. Tilley ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #1402 **********************************