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27th June 2017, 20:37 | #1 |
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Hi just wondering if anyone was brave enough to take a 1.8 engine out and slip a diesel in .
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27th June 2017, 20:49 | #2 |
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So much else involved be easier to buy a diesel in the first place.
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27th June 2017, 21:03 | #3 |
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If you take that on you'll need deep pockets and weeks (if not months) of hard labour for something that'll never really be right. |
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27th June 2017, 21:12 | #5 |
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My postman did just that to his 190 when it died..........
Bought a donor diesel and gradually swapped everything over. Took him about a month but then he only worked on it about 3 afternoons a week. |
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