PICS! Econo Car conversion to Kubota Diesel. 1997 Geo Metro, Kubota D1005 3 cylinder

[Xist]

I am just trying to keep up with the great things that you are doing. I do not have any of these skills, and do not even understand some of your accomplishments, but am very interested in your project!

[planejob]

Video of it running. My 6 year old daughter is the videographer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxExwD0XKE

https://youtu.be/yrxExwD0XKE

[rustygirl]

Great job Planejob. i love the sound of an unleashed kubota!
On my conversion i removed the solenoid, made a cover plate and hooked a bicycle brake cable to the kill lever. No need to waste perfectly good electricity to keep it running.

[kimer6]

Great job! The sound alone will shoo the rattle snakes away from your castle!

[kimer6]

The fuel cut off cable would work fine on a car...but when it took 2 hands to kill the diesel on the boat (15 feet of corroded cable) I conjured up the Cummins/Dodge solenoid and even my pet monkey can shut it off now.

[Splitbusvanatic]

Love the video.
Excellent.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Splitbusvanatic

I'm currently show-horning a TDi engine and upside down transmission from a VW Passat into a 1966 VW Splitscreen camper van.

Stop teasing me and start a build thread for that Kombi (no matter what bodystyle, all the rear-engined Transporters are called "Kombi" in my country). I'm curious to see what you'll do about the radiator.

[MetroMPG]

Congrats on the successful fire-up, planejob!

I'll be adding this project to the front page shortly.

Question: your images appear to be all hosted off-site. Some are already generating some "can't find it" errors. Do you mind if I copy and embed them as attachments to this thread? Maybe not all.

Experience tells us that this thread will be around for a long time after the 3rd party image hosting site will make them available, and I don't want to lose them.

[planejob]

You are more than welcome to copy the pictures - in fact if you tell me how to do it properly I will upload them all to the a safe place.

I was using photobucket, and I switched to google photos about 1/2 way in.

Update:
1" copper tubing from Home Depot is expensive... yet it makes very nice radiator fittings for turning the hoses to a satisfactory direction. Pictures coming Sunday.

[MetroMPG]

Check this thread:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...der-18279.html

The only potential limitation is if your camera settings are producing really big images that are larger than the forum attachment size limit.