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Post #270,125 by folkert 10/12/06 12:52:21 PM Reply	As long as it turns over... and no rattling/banging sounds (well besides the typical diesel sound), you should be good. I did a similar thing with the old GM 350 Diesel (the converted gasoline block) and it lived out a happy life. In fact, it ran better after the episode, but that was old ring and piston technology. Dunno how these new high silicon pistons and high chrom-moly rings will do. Should be fine. Cringers Fossed. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #270,127 by bluke 10/12/06 1:14:22 PM Reply	I will find out tomorrow It died in the evening after all the garages closed. Tomorrow morning I will have it towed to the garage and they will asess the situation.
Post #270,132 by tuberculosis 10/12/06 2:29:00 PM Reply	Re: As long as it turns over... >GM 350 Diesel (the converted gasoline block) and it lived out a happy life. What was that, about 6 months? That motor was a lemon. [link\|http://www.blackbagops.net\|Black Bag Operations Log] [link\|http://www.objectiveclips.com\|Artificial Intelligence] [link\|http://www.badpage.info/seaside/html\|Scrutinizer]
Post #270,137 by folkert 10/12/06 2:46:41 PM Reply	You see... That GM350 Diesel couldn't be driven like a "regular" gasoline car. Which most where. It had zero tolerance for gradual acceleration... err well minimal pushing of the pedal. Push it to the MAT and then let up when you get to your speed. I got quite a bit more than 35K most grandpas got out of it. Infact add 100K to that. I got one of the early "D" blocks. a 1981 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Diesel motors need hard work to live long lives. Other wise they build up crap all the time and basically cake themselves to death. The only reason it stopped working @ 130K was I forgot to plug it in one cold winter night (I worked long swing) I used ether on it to get it started... Bent the crank a tiny bit. Eventually and it shook itself to death by bending a rod and cracking it off... oops. But that only took seven months. Those blocks are highly sought by racers, because of the extra nickel and beefy webs. They can be converted back to gasoline... High compression and a big lumpy cam. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #270,147 by tuberculosis 10/12/06 5:04:41 PM Reply	My dad had one It was in the shop so much he had to buy a backup car. As for driving it like a car - how could you? It had no balls and was routinely floored. It would lose a drag race with heavily loaded VW Microbus. At about 30k miles the undersized hoses came apart, it vented all its steam, boiled itself dry, and melted down. My uncle (GMI grad - worked on the vette as auto engineer through the 60's-80's) told me that motor was a total kludge based on taking a regular 350 and trying to beef it up a bit. Yeah, no shit. I'm very pro-diesel (got a VW Pathfinder driving my boat) but not that one. [link\|http://www.blackbagops.net\|Black Bag Operations Log] [link\|http://www.objectiveclips.com\|Artificial Intelligence] [link\|http://www.badpage.info/seaside/html\|Scrutinizer]
Post #270,240 by lincoln 10/13/06 1:44:58 PM Reply	ICLRPD (new thread) Created as new thread #270239 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=270239\|ICLRPD] lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *Citizen* of the United States. [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #270,151 by boxley 10/12/06 7:00:35 PM Reply	best thing about an older GM diesel? The title Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep

Gas in a diesel engine, what is the damage? - (bluke) - (24) - Oct. 12, 2006, 10:58:35 AM EDT

Re: Gas in a diesel engine, what is the damage? - (Steve Lowe) - (10) - Oct. 12, 2006, 11:42:30 AM EDT

Re: Gas in a diesel engine, what is the damage? - (bluke) - (9) - Oct. 12, 2006, 12:01:04 PM EDT

good - (Steve Lowe) - (8) - Oct. 12, 2006, 12:06:55 PM EDT

That is what I am going to do - (bluke) - (7) - Oct. 12, 2006, 12:46:23 PM EDT

As long as it turns over... - (folkert) - (6) - Oct. 12, 2006, 12:52:21 PM EDT

I will find out tomorrow - (bluke) - Oct. 12, 2006, 01:14:22 PM EDT

Re: As long as it turns over... - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Oct. 12, 2006, 02:29:00 PM EDT

You see... - (folkert) - (3) - Oct. 12, 2006, 02:46:41 PM EDT

My dad had one - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 12, 2006, 05:04:41 PM EDT

ICLRPD (new thread) - (lincoln) - Oct. 13, 2006, 01:44:58 PM EDT

best thing about an older GM diesel? The title -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 12, 2006, 07:00:35 PM EDT

Re: Gas in a diesel engine, what is the damage? - (pwhysall) - Oct. 12, 2006, 12:08:42 PM EDT

'.. on the way home' - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 12, 2006, 06:32:56 PM EDT

It was less then 10 kilometers from the gas station - (bluke) - Oct. 13, 2006, 05:46:54 AM EDT

All's well that ends well - (bluke) - (9) - Oct. 13, 2006, 05:49:25 AM EDT

Not a bad price to learn a valuable lesson - (drewk) - (5) - Oct. 13, 2006, 08:07:28 AM EDT

I am sure he will be GREEN Handle Friendly - (folkert) - (4) - Oct. 13, 2006, 09:49:29 AM EDT

Pumps might be different in that part of the world. ;-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (3) - Oct. 13, 2006, 09:52:20 AM EDT

I dunno... thunkitsastandard -NT - (folkert) - Oct. 13, 2006, 11:24:09 AM EDT

Story in reverse - (jbrabeck) - Oct. 13, 2006, 02:54:17 PM EDT

The pumps are different ... - (bluke) - Oct. 15, 2006, 11:03:54 AM EDT

Glad it worked out :) -NT - (Steve Lowe) - Oct. 13, 2006, 11:33:39 AM EDT

Good show! Glad you got off cheap. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 13, 2006, 11:20:39 PM EDT

Really glad to hear that! -NT - (Nightowl) - Oct. 19, 2006, 02:13:55 AM EDT

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