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Delica units on route to Nova Scotia
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:50 am
by Safari_man
Hello to all.
This forum will be a God send.
Got 2 92 Delica units ready for a container in Japan.Plus some other goodies.
One will replace my wrote off Jeep.
Looking at a 92 gasser 5 speed.How many tons of work to make it a diesel with a front cut?
Hope to be a great contributor to the family.
Stay tuned for the English manual CD I found.
Stephen
Re: Delica units on route to Nova Scotia
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:09 am
by Golf Cart
Hi Stephen and welcome !!
Youre going to have a blast with these units.
One of our members actually converted diesel to a gasser and I dont think it was cheap. Going the other way may or may not be the same.
Good Luck
Golf Cart
Re: Delica units on route to Nova Scotia
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:00 am
by FalcoColumbarius
Hi Safari Man, welcome to Delica Canada 
Could you describe this "English manual CD" you speak of? Is it for the L300? Is it a shop manual? We have a section for manuals in "Delica Canada Technical" (found in the forum index), in L300 and L400 Delica Downloads. Let me know as I can load manuals into these sections. Cheers!
Falco.
Re: Delica units on route to Nova Scotia
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:08 pm
by mararmeisto
Safari_man wrote:...
Looking at a 92 gasser 5 speed.How many tons of work to make it a diesel with a front cut?
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Stephen
It's quite a big job due to the body/frame being a monocoque arrangement. One of the shops here did it (at least the body work, I don't know if he ever got the engine into it), and from what I understand you would have to find a welder who is capable of this kind of "stitching". And by welder, it sounded like he meant "really good welder".
Why not just get a diesel-powered one?
Re: Delica units on route to Nova Scotia
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:07 pm
by TardisDeli
HI,
I heard the shop that tried to convert from diesel to gas said never never again, it was way more work than anticipated. The actual engine was not as much problem as trying to fit in all the extra parts (starting system, extra wires, etc). When I looked at the engine bay for each, the space was totally differently shaped, each had various humps built into the frame to mount parts to (those attaching points are missing when you swap engines). And then of course the gas engine block is shorter than the diesel block, so now the transmission won't fit. etc.etc.
Don't do it.
Cheers, Christine.