Anyone here have a diesel? Im I the only one??

 

ur no the only one, if you have s 240 diesel, just post it here

 

There are not many diesels left.

Alot of them have been converted to Gas engines.

 

i don't see why you would convert a diesel to gas...
1. Diesel fuel is cheaper (here in MD at least)
2. you get MUCH better fuel economy on a diesel

currently, out of the top 5 cars in the US on gas mileage, 2 of them are diesels and 2 of them are hybrids...actually, a diesel VW Golf gets better fuel economy than my 2006 Toyota Prius hybrid

 

They were converted over MANY MANY years ago.
If something happened to the engine it was cheaper to convert to gas than keep the Diesel.

 

Nope 740 Turbodiesel. I guess I have no one to talk to Anyone in europe that could set me up with an intercooler system? (in europe a turbodiesel intercooled version ws available...)

 

There was a couple of years they were avalible here in the U.S. as well but hard to find them still running.

Sorry that was also before my time of working on them.

 

i've got a 85 760gle turbo diesel. it would be nice to have an intercooler but it has a lot of zip and i love burnin' bio diesel. nothin like the smell of french fries in the mornin.

 

'84 760 GLE TD here. Runs fine. So far. Only 154K on it.

 

The diesel engine for the 240 series was manufactured by Puegot (?). The primary reason most are no longer running... 200k miles was/is highly unusual. Most blew out around 75-125k miles. Some even sooner.

 

The Diesel engine was made by Volkswagon.
Still P.O.S!!!

 

Not by Peugeot, it was a VW Truck engine.. straight 6. If several "rules" were followed, the engine would go to 240k before a short block was required.