Smaller diesel engine, that would replace a gas inline four?

[DmaxMaverick]

You have to start somewhere. Lofty goals often lead to very acceptable results. Once you have the engine staring at you, it has to go somewhere. It depends on you determination from there.

[Gearstix]

A buddy of mine in Indianna is going to college and he says he can do a 700R4 for 820 shipped, depending on how much he gets the trans for.
Is the only difference between the gas and diesel 700R4 is the torque converter?
He says it'll have a shift kit and stuff.
Good deal or pass? it'll be a rebuild transmission.

[DmaxMaverick]

A buddy of mine in Indianna is going to college and he says he can do a 700R4 for 820 shipped, depending on how much he gets the trans for.
Is the only difference between the gas and diesel 700R4 is the torque converter?
He says it'll have a shift kit and stuff.
Good deal or pass? it'll be a rebuild transmission.

.....and the governor.

[convert2diesel]

.....and the governor.

and the throttle valve and the accululator piston.

Bill

[Gearstix]

I'm pretty sure the S10 v6 5 speed (New Venture Gear 3500) is my best bet.
Just gotta find one is the problem

[trbankii]

Not sure that the NV3500 will hold up to a diesel. The diesels had the NV4500. Should be fairly easy to turn up one, though. They were in quite a number of applications.

[Gearstix]

Well I was sent a link to a guy on another forum who put one in his sierra or soemthing, it had a 6.2

I don't know if a automatic would be better, but ..
all the work to put one in plus I'd need to covert the gasser transmission.