I was the service manager for a Chevrolet dealer in the late seventies and early
eighties. I agree with everything Don wrote. I do have to add - I am amazed one
is
still alive and running. Run away from it.
Donald H Locker wrote:
> Hi, Paul.
>
> IMO, GM is almost solely responsible for the death of pass-car diesel
> engines in the USA. The 350 was in no shape to accept the high forces
> and pressures required of a diesel engine -- not in the bottom end,
> the top end, the cylinder walls, the lubrication and lube filtering
> system, the accessory package. (I suspect that the cooling system was
> up to the task, since diesels are very easy on their heat transfer
> requirements, but that's the only system that might be. And even that
> probably had trouble with combustion gases getting in and rotting the
> coolant or passages.)
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