Cummins conversion for $5k
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Dsl_Dog_Treat
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Just keep rubbing that one in Richard!
big jake
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It says the engine is a 2001 year model, that would make it a 24 valve. Those engines had a "53 block" which was very prone to cracking. They also are not mechanically injected.
It is mechanically injected, it runs a Bosch Rotary Pump, a VE44 I believe. The 1st gen Non-Intercooled Cummins, ran a rotary pump. The Second Gen was a 12 valve with a P-Pump, then the 24 valve had a rotary pump, and did until the common rail engine came along.......
i'm not up the the 24v motors, outside of the 53 block. but I thought the early 24v did have borg tech on their rotary pumps.
That's always been my understanding...the non-common-rail 24 valves have mechanical injectors being operated by an electronically-controlled injector pump (in fact, I think my TDI Jetta's injector pump is a scaled-down 4-cylinder version of it). The common-rails, of course, have Borg technology on the injectors themselves, in return for eliminating the injector pump that we all know and love.
I wonder if it has a 2001 engine or if the seller means the conversion was done in 2001? Shame there aren't any pictures under the hood
