Re: DML:Diesel in a Dakota

From: John Neff (jndneff@texas.net)
Date: Sat Apr 17 2004 - 09:45:07 EDT


No doubt that it will fit, but how reliable is the rest of the drive train
with that engine in place? The problem, or so I've been told, is the engine
fires on each cylinder so hard it literally shakes the rest of the vehicle
apart.

John

>Hmmm... I thought I had seen a CJ-5 with this engine, but maybe it was a
>different Cummins. I don't have a lot of time to search, maybe someone
>else can turn up some references.

>Just looking quickly, I found on this page:
>http://www.4x4wire.com/news/arca00phx/entrants.htm

>Scroll down to "*125 Jeff Wood & Wes Rintelen/ -1960 Jeep CJ-5/*" where
>it says (among other things) "The engine is a Cummins Turbo Diesel 4-BT
>with 105HP and 325 foot pounds of torque."

>If it fits in a CJ, it oughta fit in a Dak. Sounds like it's not a
>great street engine, but I'm sure that Jeep makes for a really nice
>rockcrawler :-).



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