Picked up the 1986 Ford Tempo Diesel 5 Speed and the 1985 Chevy Pick up 6.2 liter Diesel automatic today. Both, FREE! Can't wait to clean out the Tempo. It's had 12 years of acumulated gunk everywhere. So, here are some pics. These are taken at night so I had to photoshop the brightness some.
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The passenger side of the Diesel Tempo. It is not perfect, but only has 114k miles on it:
The Drivers side:
The engine. Need to vacuum it out and get my air gun in there. Going to take the injectors out and soak the cylinders with some diesel or WD-40 and turn the engine over by hand:
The truck. It's rusty and ugly. Get it running, make a video and pull it out. Scrap the rest of it at Omnisource:
The best part of this truck, the motor. A 6.2 Diesel engine and a 400 Transmission. He had the old batteries partially charged when I got there and it turned over. Said it leaked gas by the tank. I'll rig something up just to make it run, same as the Tempo.
Scrap the truck and keep the engine. Get another Tempo body (keep the vin tag and title) and swap the engine into a solid body. Would LOVE to find an early EXP. Realistically though, find a donor Escort / Lynx or Tempo / Topaz and use the diesel motor.