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Re: GMC Trucks with 350 diesel

To: Donald H Locker <dhl@chelseamsl.com>
Subject: Re: GMC Trucks with 350 diesel
From: lbruno <lbruno@valinet.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:33:34 -0400
I was the service manager for a Chevrolet dealer in the late seventies and early
eighties. I agree with everything Don wrote. I do have to add - I am amazed one 
is
still alive and running.   Run away from it.

Donald H Locker wrote:

> Hi, Paul.
>
> IMO, GM is almost solely responsible for the death of pass-car diesel
> engines in the USA.  The 350 was in no shape to accept the high forces
> and pressures required of a diesel engine -- not in the bottom end,
> the top end, the cylinder walls, the lubrication and lube filtering
> system, the accessory package.  (I suspect that the cooling system was
> up to the task, since diesels are very easy on their heat transfer
> requirements, but that's the only system that might be.  And even that
> probably had trouble with combustion gases getting in and rotting the
> coolant or passages.)

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