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I'm sorry then for carrying on with my posts. I was going off of this which to me sounds like I go in to a GM dealer back in 86', order a new K30, then check the box for a Cummins and poof...one shows up on the car carrier like the rest of them. To me that is what a production vehicle goes...

I agree, you can buy an S-10 (along with a LUV) and Ranger with a diesel. You could back in the day (which is when stuff was generally cooler, also happened to fall on a Tuesday...) and you can still get them with a diesel (not in the US market). It exists, they are on Craigslist and Ebay not...

So over 25 years ago you spotted 3 trucks...that isn't exactly evidence they are full on production trucks. I'm pretty sure that with a Cummins as a much better option, these things would be floating around America like unemployed welfare rats. I mean how many people that are on the interweb...

I would love to see a C/K (or later R/V) style truck with a factory Cummins engine. Forget the order book propoganda, how about photos of one on the showroom floor (that means lots of bell bottoms and large mustaches in the photo), an OEM repair or wiring diagram referencing it, etc. Just...

That's is an interesting point! Diesel had a nice price inflation due to the low sulfur regs as well...certainly not winning the battle on the consumer end. The environment is cleaner but it would be nice is the gov't and fuel industry made fuel that actually didn't kill my engines. Regardless...

That Olds 350DX really killed the entire roll out of light duty diesels in American spec cars. Mercedes never had an issue, it always comes back to the Detroit iron having crappy engines. Everything in the 80's was noisy and smelly, most were slow too. Ford had some serious issues moving on from...

I'm not sure if this is in English???

I always find the "6.2 is a converted gas engine" conversation amusing. My brain immediately goes, "you suck at math, can't recognize that 5.7 and 6.2 don't match, and I'm stabbing you in the head inside of my head right now".

All of those 80's diesel engines are pretty close in power and reliability. I would probably lean towards the 7.3 (I guess it would have been Navistar branding at the time) in terms of best light duty diesels. Keep in mind that the Cummins is not in the same class at all. The 7.3 is still a...