Novak has pulled their heads out-a little

Not without throttle plates and/or a Jake brake

A little cutting and welding will fix that.

Including buffalo chips.

Earle Horton proclaimed:

Incomplete thinking there. If food were cheaper, then the used french fry oil would be more available and therefore cheaper. That way, everyone would be able to afford a diesel to haul their fat **s around.

Earle Horton proclaimed:

On the Mercedes engines the oil pump hangs below the block rail and is chain driven, so there is little to be shaved off. About the only alternative would be to dry sump the beast with external pressure and scavenge pumps, a Bad Idea on road cars as if the belt fails you are looking at catastrophic engine failure.

MBZ designs its engines for its chassis and vice versa. There were a lot of the old pushrod OM's sold for industrial use, but they generally had sumps more reminiscent of Continental flat fours-a bag sump. Thermo King was the big MBZ customer until they switched to Isuzu (a good move) in the early 80s.

"Other than that" and the use of vacuum vane governors up through the late OM 616, the Mercedes small diesels are magnificent little power plants. The lower ends can go a million miles. The bores go in about

300,000, but they are linered and usually a no machining swap out. If they had an aftermarket chrome liner still available the bores would go the life of the lower end probably.

Usually the chassis dies from rust or crash damage, or the car is parted out because the transmission dies. The engines can be had for very little money. But 4WD swaps are tough because of the sump clearance issue.

The Webasto is pretty simple. So are South Winds and Eberspachers. Most of these so caled "mechanics" are actually partschangers. Webastos are readily available but they are expensive new, so are the parts, but they are pretty reliable.

Damn, you got me there.

Dave

Not in the US - it is refined from crude oil

and it isn't poured in, it is pumped through injectors.

Dave Milne, Scotland

Don't understand the CO requirements -it appears to be wanting 8g/mi when the I6 Wrangler is currently putting out 323 g/km or > 500 g/mi ???

Dave

ok, I got you :-)

Dave

That's People's Republic of Denver, heh.

Earle

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