[Vwdiesel] MB engine swap

[James Hansen]

Yeah, a neighbor has two 7.3's.  He's worn one truck out around one of them,
has some ridiculous number of miles on it, 700K or something.  That's can't
beat a friend's early 12 valve Cummins 6.9 that has 1.4 million on it.
Yeah, million, other than maintenance, it's untouched. Going into a Ford, a
2wd gearswap is easy. Gearsets at 2.7:1  should be available to speed the
rear wheels up to match a slower rotating motor such as the Perkins,
depending on the setup you already have.... Trans with or w/o overdrive, etc

Ultimately, for Raymond, I would say get a 2004 Duramax. The auto box is
strong, it's is certainly the most comfortable riding truck of the lot, and
with the auto box, anyone can drive it.  I am getting up to 27mpg on summer
fuel driving sane.  It has an edge/juice box combo set on "mileage" most of
the time, which when Dad first installed it, netted 5mpg more. 2005's are
supposed to have issues.  03's were okay too.
-james



> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
> On Behalf Of brian gochnauer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:28 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] MB engine swap
> 
> I have a '01 Ford F250 Super Duty w/ 7.3L diesel V8 184k miles,
> absolutely
> great motor 525 ft.lbs of torque. pulls my 27 ft RV trailer with ease
> at
> 75mph @11mpg
> The the really old 6.9L and the newer 6.4L diesels have some serious
> issues,
> but the 7.3L is great, but they only used if for 4-5 yrs.
> 
> 
> On 3/25/09, Patrick Dolan <pmdolan at sasktel.net> wrote:
> >
> > Bill:  The reason not to use the Ford (IHC) engine is that it is a
> bit of a
> > boat anchor.  The early 6.9 really doesn't make much power, and none
> of them
> > from day one get enough economy to justify removing a gasser.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: William J Toensing <toensing at wildblue.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:04 am
> > Subject: [Vwdiesel] MB engine swap
> >
> > > I don't think I would put a Mercedes car diesel in a Ford F-250. I
> > > would get a later Ford truck V-8 diesel. I think it would be very
> > > underpowered & the MB automatic to weak as well. Why not try &
> > > trade your MB diesel for a Ford truck diesel or put your MB diesel
> > > into an older American rear drive car? I would like to see such a
> > > transplant in a postwar Hudson.
> > > Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
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