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The Olds 4.3 diesel was based on the 5.7 after many of the V8's highly publicized problems had been sorted out by GM, so it worked well enough. The damage to diesel's reputation had been done,.
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09/23/2018 Magazine Hemmings Motor News In This Article Category: Magazine In the fall of 1977, GM introduced its 350-cu.in. diesel engine. The LF9-code mill was the only passenger-car V-8 diesel in the world at that time; Oldsmobile engineered it, but all GM divisions from Chevy to Cadillac used it.
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The first Oldsmobile diesels arrived for the 1978 model year, and they carried a modified version of the brand's 5.7-liter (350-cu.in.) V-8. By 1979, the year of this magazine ad, the division had increased its oil-burning options to include the 4.3-liter (261-cu.in.) V-8 as well, offering diesel engines in a whopping 19 Oldsmobile models.
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Olds renamed it the Hill Diesel Engine Company, reportedly after Harry Hill, whom Olds put in charge, while remaining chairman of the board. A cutaway view shows what would now be seen as an old-school IDI diesel. In 1940 it was cutting-edge tech. It had five main bearings, 2.9375-inch rod and main journals, and used dry sleeves.
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In an SAE white paper from February of 1978, Olds engineers said their diesel quest began in 1973. They started big by installing GMC's 478ci V6 Toro-Flow diesel into a full-sized car. Since Opel in Germany was an arm of GM, they tested an Opel Rekord four-cylinder diesel in a mid-sized Olds.
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And in 1976, VW jumped into the diesel market in a big way. The Golf/Rabbit's diesel was a direct development ("conversion") of its gas engine, and showed that it was not necessary to start from scratch in building a successful diesel engine. As such, it offers a counterpoint to the Olds diesel, both being converted gas engines.
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Oldsmobile Diesel Engine - LF9. was a 350 cu in (5,737 cc) diesel V8 produced from 1978-1985. The Oldsmobile diesel is believed by some to be a converted gasoline engine. While they share the same bore and stroke and some external bolt patterns (transmission and exhaust manifolds) they are completely different engines.
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It seems that despite its V8 woes, Oldsmobile's engineers had managed to turn out a perfectly serviceable diesel V6 engine that avoided all of the problems of its bigger brother and finally delivered on the promise of decent power and excellent efficiency.
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Owners made the innocent mistake of adding anhydrous alcohol (dry gas) that is commonly used with gas engines to remove water from fuel, but in a diesel it dissolved fuel pump and other component seals.
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The Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon Brougham, or "Bro" for short, was one of the first cars to receive the storied Olds diesel.. But in 1979, Volvo introduced a 2.4-liter inline-six diesel engine.
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Say "Oldsmobile diesel" and most people think of the trouble-prone 350-cid (5.7 liter) V-8 that plagued GM's full-size cars in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But there was another Oldsmobile diesel in that time frame, and it was actually a decent engine — and yet it was largely overshadowed by the bad reputation of its V-8 sister.
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There was a time in the late-1960s when noted automotive journalist Karl Ludvigsen made the claim that the W43 Olds 455 was "perhaps the most promising and impressive big-bore V8 engines ever groomed for street and track use by any manufacturer." Yes, an Oldsmobile.