My Day started positive and went kind of downhill fairly rapid, i decided to make a start on investigating the engine a Nissan D22 navara ( With Ill Runaway engine )project truck i have had a wile now, in my defence here its only been home a week or so and i have already took the rear tub body off ready for my short tray back build and it being a clear day today decided to look at the engine and make a start on the front seat swaps i have decided on.
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Truck was a £200 purchase i wanted to fit a vw sdi2.5 litre five cylinder AGX motor i have here in my old van, but found out its dual mass flywheel clutch so conversion will be near impossible given my budget and funds.
So i decided to take a provisional look at the ill fatted stock Nissan YD25 engine, and quick look at the turbo by just taking off the pipe showed it had lots of play and probably ran off the engine oil it drank from the blown turbo.
Itv allegedley ran, but did not see no point in stressing it further and risk throwing a rod if as i suspect they failed during the runaway, the YD25 and its Younger bigger brother the ZD30 are prone to cracking conrods accross the oilway on the big end and i guess its indeed done this on at least one of them.
So Failed turbo confirmed i went on to just try turning the motor by hand, amd it moved but only about 15 degrees then it stopped and turning it backwards it did exactly the same so its posible i just did not push it through compresion or more likeley its got something gone out of sinch inside a valve or even a cam broken .. somethings amiss i believe.
I always wanted to convert this truck rather than repair the stock motor. I had planned the five cylinder vw diesel, but now i am just not sure which way to jump.
I have seen a few Toyota hilux TDI 1.9 vw conversions, and they seem to work well enough in these light jap trucks, however i dont have a donor car with a 1.9tdi in it, but i do have a skoda fabia wagon with a 1.4TDI the same basic TDI engine but three cylinders and 1422cc 75 bhp.
My instinct screams "no its too small".
But then i started to doubt my judgement and looked at the spec figures and things did not look quite as bad.
Nissan D22 navara
Weight. of short trayback double cab, 3700lbs
2.5
HP 133 @3600RPM
Torque 304nm @2000RPM
Skoda Fabia 1.4 TDI Estate.
weight 2600lbs lbs
HP 75BHP @ 4000rpm
Torque 195nm @ 2200rpm
I would estimate the YD25 engine weight 340lbs
The 1.4 TDI weighs 240LBS
so we are talking 1000lbs heavier and half the hp and 2 thirds of the torque at a higher rpm
Here is the 1.9 VWTDI power numbers for comparison as there are a good few 1.9tdi hilux swaps on the www and i will atach a video of one below .
1.9TDI
HP 103 hp @4000RPM
torque 250 nm @1900RPM
Weight 370lbs
Dont know. Its Down in every respect but i already own it its here and i know i can fit it in the truck, Thoughts all, ?
Thats because modern= not setting the bump in the taper bearing shim stack. Plug and play. I enjoyed the end float part of harleys.
Motorcycles are a joke compared to working on vehicles. This was so easy.
New fluids all around. New front tire. New front rotors and pads. Rear tire and pads this weekend and she should be ready to roll.
Stator wire into the primary had a bit of a seep on it. Apparently that's Harleys doing Harley things. I threw some ThreeBond on it. See if it holds. Otherwise primary cover is coming off and I'm tackling that from the inside.
Just everything on motorcycles in general though. I've been busting my ass on 20+ year old vehicles for a long time now. I've must have had a wrench in my hand every day since January. It just doesn't stop. Laying in the mud, the cold, dealing with all the rust and bent over seats and consoles. The bikes....I sit on a stool and everything is right there.Thats because modern= not setting the bump in the taper bearing shim stack. Plug and play. I enjoyed the end float part of harleys.
You live in the salted areas? That does suck. I spent over a decade in the north. Laying on a piece of cardboard on ice was not fun. And needed torches for all the siezed fasteners.Just everything on motorcycles in general though. I've been busting my ass on 20+ year old vehicles for a long time now. I've must have had a wrench in my hand every day since January. It just doesn't stop. Laying in the mud, the cold, dealing with all the rust and bent over seats and consoles. The bikes....I sit on a stool and everything is right there.
I'm in the heart of the rust belt, heh.You live in the salted areas? That does suck. I spent over a decade in the north. Laying on a piece of cardboard on ice was not fun. And needed torches for all the siezed fasteners.
Yes, motorcycles are a nice break.
We had the tools at work. But driveway repairs took hours for simple stuff. It takes a hardened individual to live up there. I miss some things. The long daylight hrs in late June were awesome for riding.I'm in the heart of the rust belt, heh.
We all have had those shit show days. Best of luck with the eye Fixer.Welp. That was a shit show.
Carrier bearing in the truck showed up. Worked on that starting at 8am. By 10, I had the grinder out cutting the bearing race off. Wearing glasses, still managed to get something lodged into my eye. Dropped everything and look, saw something in there. Off to the ER.
Wait two hours. They tell me they can't help. I need to see an eye specialist tomorrow. Just show up. ya. right. I'm sure if I needed drugs they'd hook me right up though.
Get home around 1pm. Eye all messed up. Welp, truck still needs work. Cut the race off, get the shaft in the press, pop out the old one.
Spend and hour trying to get the new one pressed on with a pipe. The entire unit won't fit in the press. Get that squared away. Lube up the slip yoke. Mount up the ends. Go to mount up the new carrier bearing. Bolt holes aren't even close.
The bearing is identical, but the mounting surface is different. My dumbass only looked at the bearing itself, not the mounting holes.
So this entire day was a waste. Popped the shaft off, threw it in the Vitara. I'm just going to take it down to a driveline place. Have them do it. Have them balance it and throw all new u-joints in it. I'm done with this shit. Just give me the part to bolt in. Wasted an entire fucking day trying to save some money. so mad
I recently bought the tool on the left to crimp some 6ga lugs on a sxs. Because I could not find the tool on the right.
Guess I have two now.