Monday, Jun 20, 2005 at 23:35
Matt,
I did considerable research in the 6.2 and 6.5 V-8 Diesel conversions for Landcruiser....Over about two years... In my office is still a picture of my last Troopy, as I am fond of them and owned three....
I can get into details of my research and the followup of the past 25 or so
Bushtracker Owners that did it.... But the short of it is that it runs through the Toyota transmissions in short order, has cooling problems to overcome, has firewall problems, and in general costs some big dollars.... I finally abandoned the effort, and bought a Ford... The truth is that for all the work and money and problems, I am not sure it is worth the effort... Even some of the people that have done it have abandoned it in favour of the longer wheelbase of the Ford, Chevy, or Dodge trucks... Hard to abandone the love of the Tojo, but in the end it may be more cost effective, at least that is what I determined...
Many Customers put far more in, and had to continue to modify and experiment, in coverting the Toyota... Even one did it with a Discovery! Most ended up spending over $20,000 after all the added modifications they were not expecting, air conditioning, transmissions, etcetera...
Kind Regards from the Ranger at
Bushtracker....
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