Trade question

[Chevyboy_0]

Unfortunately, for it to be remotely legal in CA, whatever platform vehicle I'd go with would need to have started life as a diesel...a shame because gas 1/2 Suburbans are a dime a dozen out here...

funny you should mention that.... I was talking to my boss today(I work for a CA state referee) and i was asking him how much it would take to repower a Gasser with a Diesel. And according to him you need to use an engine that is equal to or newer then the vehicle. Then bring it to a Referee have him inspect it he will give you an exemption notice take it to DMV and the change it for you. Simple as that

 

[vegas39]

I hear that! I actually thought of a 6-71, but it'd be hard to shoehorn one into a pickup (although not impossible).....but, I want to get one of these someday:

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6-71 (pancake) and 5 speed manual from the factory and apparently some of them have 10-speed RoadRangers, although they're harder to come by. I'd either make it into a motorhome or into a rolling workshop....that's one of those "in the distant distant future" pipe-dreams...

Yes, I'm (according to towcat, at least )

My idea with the 4-53T Suburban is a fuel-efficient family-hauler....same reason I'd want a late '80's model, with more creature-comforts. Sort of a poor-man's Excursion, but unique stemming from this video posted on another thread. Unfortunately, for it to be remotely legal in CA, whatever platform vehicle I'd go with would need to have started life as a diesel...a shame because gas 1/2 Suburbans are a dime a dozen out here...

Sorry for the hijack

God that brings back memories. Drove them things for years, best bus ever built.
We had them both with 671's and the big cummins, both laid underneath "pancake"
We had both 5 speed and 10 speeds.

I had the chance to buy an 81 with the 671 and 10 speed trans a few years back for 1500 bucks and had to pass because I had no where to store it.