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BumblingB 07-18-2007 06:58 PM

I may post some pics later. Somewhat of a clean install though I know people would have something to say and they would of done it XX way, but i would of done it different a little bit too as an afterthought. Sort of one of those, measure twice - cut once afterthoughts. The interior portion of the install I hurt my shoulder and elbow on after the install........I'm still patting myself on the back for the cleanliness of the gauges/switches/lights - that's how I got hurt :p . What's good, IMO it looks a bit better than the mishmash of things I've seen some people do.

Under the hood some wouldn't agree how I built it, but space was limited so I had to make a central install location for all required parts, real estate was limited to nothing on the fender wells, firewall etc. So I utilized the dead space in the middle of the engine compartment over the transmission and made a brace going from the top radiator support to the firewall and mounted everything on that. The support was made from recycled aluminum square tube that used to be a projector screen mount.

Oh, did I mention I've got 500+ miles on it already - knock on wood A LOT - no problems yet. I hope I didn't jinx myself. :eek:

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Originally Posted by tom_eberhard (Post 64042)
Congratulations!!! That is AWESOME!!!
I bought a diesel a couple of years ago and never finished (or really started) the conversion, so that's really cool. You realize that you have to post some pictures of the conversion, right? :)


tom_eberhard 07-31-2007 08:27 AM

Put gas in the tank, motor still not starting. :(
Learning to use the CAD software (Solidworks)
Getting tired of lack of progress, so I'm going to put the weekly updates on pause for a while, and will start posting again in September.
Tom.


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