1999 Dodge Dakota Diesel
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Well, here we go again. You may already have visited my Jeep diesel conversion page at http://www.canev.com/Jeep.html The Jeep was a difficult and time consuming conversion due to limited space for the diesel and its related hardware. As I state on my Jeep page I don't do this for a living and cant help you with parts or technical information on any conversion you may want to do (unless its to electric power: http://www.canev.com.html ) I do like to here what other people are converting and always have time to chat about it. :) The truck is a 1999 Dodge Dakota club cab 4X4 with a V6 gas engine and automatic transmission. The engine is a 2000 Isuzu 4HF1 normally aspirated 4L out of a NKR 3 ton truck. The NKR was never imported into North America except for a few "demonstration" vehicles, it is a smaller version of the popular Isuzu NPR which uses basically the same engine only with a turbo (which may find its way onto my engine down the road). The first problem I encountered was the starter on the Isuzu is a rear entry so it was going to end up just about where the gas pedal is supposed to be. I built a 3.5" body lift and a small bump in the floor behind the throttle solved that. The engine mounts worked out quite nice and only had to build them once unlike the Jeep where I had about 4 mounts built before settling on a design. The front differential is a problem at this point and I will leave it out for the first test runs. It interferes with the oil pan, I could pull the pan and modify it in the future but for now I just want to get the thing running.
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| Pictures above show the old engine in the truck and the new Isuzu ready to go in. | |
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| Pictures above show the engine bay ready to receive the new diesel and the engine sitting in place while I figure out motor mounts. | |
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| While the cab was unbolted for the 3.5" body lift I rolled the from out from under it for a new coat of paint. | |
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When adding the 3.5" body lift I found the steering shaft was then too short, A tour of the local wrecking yard turned up a Jeep Cherokee shaft that was long enough to do the job, it even used the same U-joint so it looks totally stock once installed. Next picture is of the new passenger side motor mount welded in place.
Oct., 2007 BFN
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