Just can't get a good basic truck, like the old days!

[jjeff]

Yes, they did. Olds comes to mind. Glad they did that as the block makes a killer base for big inch small block gas engine.

The 350 in gas form is one of my favorite v8 engines.

 

[not2old]

Didn't gm engineers initially try to convert a few of there small block gas engines like the 5.7 over to be a diesel with terrible results? In the
Early 80s I think.

I bought an Eldorado with one of those motors. I got it really cheap as they had a bad reputation and this one had a blown head gasket. It lasted a year before it blew again so I swapped in a 350 Oldsmobile motor. I actually sold parts off the diesel for more money than I paid for the gas engine. It was impressive on how fast it started with two batteries and the diesel starter. Drove that car for about six years and sold it for enough to cover everything that I had spent on it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I bought an Eldorado with one of those motors. I got it really cheap as they had a bad reputation and this one had a blown head gasket. It lasted a year before it blew again so I swapped in a 350 Oldsmobile motor. I actually sold parts off the diesel for more money than I paid for the gas engine. It was impressive on how fast it started with two batteries and the diesel starter. Drove that car for about six years and sold it for enough to cover everything that I had spent on it.

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