At 12:38 PM 10/06/2003, you wrote: >Is it difficult to put a diesel engine in body that was originally set up >for a gasoline engine? Any conversion is about twice as difficult as stock replacement. With stock replacement there are no modifications required, with a gas to diesel conversion, there are many mods required, and some quite costly in time/money. They only way to keep costs of a swap down is compromise, compromise and compromise to a correct install. This tends to compromise a good result. |
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