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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 09:58 AM
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diesel pickup

hello, there is a 1987 4x4 pickup for sale down the road from me and i was wondering if the 2L diesel motor was a good motor or not, i havent ever heard of them before, the owner is from europe and he said they are common over there but over here they are very rare. i was just wondering if anybody had any experience with them.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 10:16 AM
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From what I have heard they do alright...
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 10:25 AM
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My next door neighbor has one. They are super awesome trucks, and he gets ridiculously good fuel mileage in his.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 10:48 AM
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what about the gear ratios? are they different from the 4cyls, any info would be great. im thinking about buying it off of him. it needs work body wise and it has a stepside box off of a ford on it and it looks terrible.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 12:15 PM
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if i had a chance to pick up a 2L truck i would have done it already.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 01:18 PM
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Hey, did you guys see that top gear video? let me see if i can find the link!!!


j/k. but seriously, I'd love to get ahold of one of these. Deisels make up a majority of the market in australia and britain.
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 02:29 PM
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DO IT!!!! heheh you can run a snorkel and itll run pretty much underwater LMAO but yeah i would have bought it already
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Old Sep 14, 2009 | 02:32 PM
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Let me know if you don't buy it, I may be interested...
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Old Sep 15, 2009 | 05:42 AM
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ill be going to pick the little beast up in a couple weeks now, the owner is putting glow plugs in it for me. so yeah.....YAY!
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Old Sep 15, 2009 | 06:50 AM
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Go get it dude. I don't think you'll be sorry at all.

I want to covert my wheeling rig over to diesel but the cost is too high.
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Old Sep 16, 2009 | 01:51 PM
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From what I've read the 2L is quite slow without a turbo, but descent with one. If taken care of they'll last a long time and get pretty good mileage though. Is this a Canadian truck? They quit bringing diesels to the US in '85.
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