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Originally Posted by anders
Hopefully chad will update the thread, it still needs the engine harness repaired/rebuilt and a few odds and ends.
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I will do my best, here are some things that I found out along the way:
1. The 8 wire plug on the firewall is a pretty straight forward conversion, the wires are just in different locations and the diesel needs less than 8.
2. Going from a manual to an auto car you have to locate the neutral safety switch and bypass it for the key to engage the starter.
3. Diesel's have a very high rear end ratio (3:31) and turbos car's have a very low rear end ratio (3:91). For now I may not even need 1st gear.
4. Hooking up the glow plugs via a momentary toggle switch is really easy.
5. Cole (aka, Rollincole) is a freaking trooper. I dragged his ass with me to do the swap at Anders house. Left Puyallup at 8am, started the drive home at 1:30am, I was falling a sleep at the wheel towing my car back and gave Cole 2 options. I drive and we die, or you drive and we maybe don't die, (cause he had never driven a truck and car trailer before), plus he was just as tired as me. He got us home safe and sound though.