Posted by RandyB(MI) on January 25, 2016 at 12:14:19 from (75.133.245.81):
In Reply to: 70s 80s Diesel pickups posted by Greg Hammel on January 25, 2016 at 11:39:49:
The GM 6.2 wasn't a bad engine if maintained properly. The 5.7 Olds was a disaster. They never updated the head bolts and had same number of them as gas engine that it evolved from. They would pop the heads off the bolts and resulting head gasket blows. 99% of the time as soon as you took off the rocker cover you seen one or two bolt heads lying there in the oil. A better quallity bolt or even studs and that engine experiment might have had better outcome. Both engines had the disenegrating governor wieght cage retainer in the rotary injection pump at approx 50,000 mi. 30-35 mpg is what sold them....and then ya paid it back to the tech. I sold a lot of 350 /260 Olds gas engines out of wrecked cars back then for the usual transplant.
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