[Vwdiesel] Dodge diesel into a Jeep

[Mark (home)]

The 4.3L Olds engine was based on the 5.7, but had some changes to 
improve reliability.  Of particular note was the fact that some used aluminum 
cylinder heads using the relatively new lost foam casting process, which was
fairly expensive at the time.  The engines as installed in rear drive G bodies 
got iron heads, and I'm told the engines with aluminum heads were 
problematic.   While I've never personally seen one, I have one friend that 
owned or owns two of them, but they've never moved, just occupied a spot in 
the back field.  He mentioned one time that the iron heads on one of them 
were the "bulletproof fix" for the leaky aluminum heads.  Being a power 
hungry type, he spent most of his time fiddling with the V8 diesels instead 
of the V6's.

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:04 pm, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/19/2006 7:59:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>
> vbriggs at stny.rr.com writes:
> > Just like the 4.3 ltr that chevy
> > uses, that 4.3 started as a diesel, there even were a few early S10
> > blazer that had one, rumor has it that it was a very good engine, but
> > do to the junk 350 diesels they made, sales of their diesels tanked.
>
>   Dad and I had only ever heard good things about the 4.3 V-6 diesel.
> Interesting since it was basically 3/4 of a 5.7 diesel.  Guess it was
> completely ground up.  Only issue I ever heard of had something to
> do with the starters and being crammed up against the firewall.
>     Loren
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