Continental idiesel n a pickup

I posted yesterday about putting a Continental diesel in a pickup. I got the specs for the engine. I think the turbo version may even be a little underpowered for a small pickup.
I have heard of guys getting over 40 mpg after they install an industrial diesel. Gas is $299.9 a gallon today. diesel is $275.9. At least double that price within a year?
TMD27 Continental diesel

What is going to put the price of fuel up? Demand is way down.

I am still interested in your Continental TMD 27.

Call Joe (978 851 6308) at Quality Auto during business hours Mon-Fri. He will be the buyer.

Ooops, wrong number. Call 978 851 2125.

the engine you show is a 2.7 liter engine and turns 3000 rpm's.in 83 to 87 toyota put a 2 liter and 2.4 liter diesel in there pickups.I inherated an 83 and it served me well for several years.I think this engine work well for a runabout,but not for a trailer puller

diesel is 229.9 here in nm gas is 259.9

(quoted from post at 23:05:16 06/05/09) What is going to put the price of fuel up? Demand is way down.

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the same thing that drove it up last year - talk about it in the news and it will come true. talk about it some more and it comes true faster.

oil needs to be taken off the stock market, then we can have TRUE supply and demand, not stock traitors setting the price of oil.

like was said commodities market drives the fuel prices and those unAmerican traders that can't wait to make a buck of the sweat of an American worker. when times are hard enough we can count on a traitor I mean trader. that will give the big O reason to take over the commodities market and fix prices .

GREED!!!!

I have a cousin that works in energies on the west coast -- mostly atomic stuff as I understand. He sent me an email that's a little lengthy, but worth reading:


Source:
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since '95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota &; western South Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana... check THIS out:

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration(EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor... They had no idea.' says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.

'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years.' reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a formation known as the Williston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's massive reserves..., and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight.

2. And if that didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO!

U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains, lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted... With this mother load of oil, why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?

They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen
- and it's all right here in the Western United States .

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy... WHY?

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?

Get yourself a VW diesel. They have a kit to bolt a five speed Toyota transmission to that engine. Acme Adapters is where I got my parts.
I have a 59hp 1.6L 8 valve engine in a Toyota pickup and I get 33 to 35 mpg.It is not a mountain climber.
This is the simplest setup I could settle on.I have 22,000 miles on it in the last 14 months.
Goes without saying you will need to do some fabricating.

Explain how that works to drive the price of an open market commodity.

It's the "I got it and if you want it you'll pay my price" scenario. As long as the fuel producers and goverment can maintain solidarity, the price can stay artificially high regardless of supply. No free market dynamics at work here. At this point the fuel producers can sit out a low demand period. They know eventually your going to need their fuel to 1) keep warm, 2) get to work, 3)turn a light on, etc.
Those threatened boycoots of not buying gas for a day were quite the joke. The fuel companies get the tanks filled up so there's plenty available for people to get filled up just before the boycott date, everybody get's a warm fuzzy feeling by 'sticking those greedy oil companies' by not buying gas the day of the boycott, and the next day it's business as usual only fuel is a few cents more expensive to cover the 'losses' incured.
OPEC's biggest concern last year was the high price of a barrel of oil, why? BS like that is bound to force a 'tipping point' where people finally wise up and decide they don't need to make that special 20 mile round trip to Wally world because they have a widget 'on sale today only'. Sooner or later people decide maybe they don't want that widget, and if they NEED that widget, they can save even more by just picking it up at full price during a planned trip that includes several other stops.
Conservation is not a bad thing! It only requires using you head for something other than a hat rack. A little thought and the average household could easily reduce their fuels consumption by 10%. If that were to happen it would prove deadly to the fuel producer's bottom line.
The 'enviromentalist' song and dance is also Bull. Sure they have a lot more crap than sense so everyone hates them. Who then is better to be blamed for 'not being able to drill in a certain area' due to enviromental concerns. In actuallity the drilling is not done as it would produce more available fuel in an already flooded market. If the milk market were run like the fuel market, what few farmers there are left would be doing ok.
You can bet if the goverment decides to throw your sorry butt out in the street and drill a well in the middle of your kitchen floor 'for the common good' you may as well stand back and not get hurt as only God himself will be able to stop them.
Beginning to understand how GREED works in a free market yet?

Im sure thats right.If they want that oil they will drill it.The oil is easier to get to somewhere else plus they are playing their jack up the price game.They got away with it before and now they are doing it again.The "enviromentalists"are on the oil company payroll for yet another reason to jack up the price.

Check it out.
Bakken oil reserves