Brought back memories as a younger man as a mechanic. Doesn't surprise me there's examples left. Back in the 90s I bought these up cheap converted them back to gas and made 400hp plus basically indestructible. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing! I didn't know any of those things still ran. I replaced a lot of those diesels with gasoline engines, 350 Olds, 350 Pontiac, 472 Cadillac and even a 250 six cylinder Chevrolet.
By "service light duty diesel engines" do you mean "replace head gaskets every 100,000 miles or less? These engines were every bit as bad as most people think.
I owned 2 Cadillac diesels. A good friend of mine who had experience with several 6.2 engine's told me beat the crap out of the engine, take it out on the highway regularly, only purchase fuel at truck stops and be faithful and timely with oil changes theses 5.7 love to run and hate to idle. He was right,
@@mikefrech1123 after the bugs were worked out of them a few years later they were a decent engine. Unfortunately it was too late, they reputation was beyond repair
Not necessarily the quality of the infamous Cadillac diesel has ever been in question... imo it's the fact that they were STANDARD EQUIPMENT for every Cadillac then ... the way it sounded was the ridiculousness. Imagine any auto company/manufacturer making a loud diesel engine standard in their "luxury cars" just such a mistake... no hate for the motor just for what they decided to do with it.
The issue with these is that they were gasoline engines converted to diesel. A lot of people swapped back to gas and they ran for much longer with less problems.
I love these GM diesels and the body styles from back then I think they’re great cars. I owned about five different ones a couple of three old mobiles couple of Chevrolet never a Cadillac but didn’t have any problems with my diesels.
I always liked the late 70s-80s GM Diesels. It's too bad they had so many problems at the start which gave them a bad reputation. A big old land yacht that could get 30mpg!
We had a 1981 Cutlass diesel. Drove it until 1983 years to 123k miles. It was still running when we traded it in on shiny new 1984 VW Quantum. Sometimes it was just a matter of knowing how to take care of them.
Those were the best of times! I loved the big cars back then.
That’s just a lovely sight and sound.
beautifull noise.
I love that sound.
What do you mean not even bad, it is extremely beautiful and great sounding come on
Brought back memories as a younger man as a mechanic. Doesn't surprise me there's examples left. Back in the 90s I bought these up cheap converted them back to gas and made 400hp plus basically indestructible. Thanks for sharing.
Real popular to build into muscle cars in New York because they were emissions exempt
Amazing! I didn't know any of those things still ran. I replaced a lot of those diesels with gasoline engines, 350 Olds, 350 Pontiac, 472 Cadillac and even a 250 six cylinder Chevrolet.
My best friends father drove nothing but diesel vehicles back then I remember each one. I was fascinated by them. I’d love to own one.
Had one replaced with a 455 olds rocket
Yankees had no idea how to service light-duty diesel engines back then. It's way better engine than most people think about.
By "service light duty diesel engines" do you mean "replace head gaskets every 100,000 miles or less? These engines were every bit as bad as most people think.
I owned 2 Cadillac diesels. A good friend of mine who had experience with several 6.2 engine's told me beat the crap out of the engine, take it out on the highway regularly, only purchase fuel at truck stops and be faithful and timely with oil changes theses 5.7 love to run and hate to idle. He was right,
@@mikefrech1123 after the bugs were worked out of them a few years later they were a decent engine. Unfortunately it was too late, they reputation was beyond repair
Not necessarily the quality of the infamous Cadillac diesel has ever been in question... imo it's the fact that they were STANDARD EQUIPMENT for every Cadillac then ... the way it sounded was the ridiculousness. Imagine any auto company/manufacturer making a loud diesel engine standard in their "luxury cars" just such a mistake... no hate for the motor just for what they decided to do with it.
The issue with these is that they were gasoline engines converted to diesel. A lot of people swapped back to gas and they ran for much longer with less problems.
I love these GM diesels and the body styles from back then I think they’re great cars. I owned about five different ones a couple of three old mobiles couple of Chevrolet never a Cadillac but didn’t have any problems with my diesels.
I did not know these were a thing and now I want one.
I could sleep to that
Haha me too!
Me too
Nice car and it will probably run a million miles
What kinds of faults in the diesel electronics would command illumination of the SERVICE NOW or SERVICE SOON tell-tales ?
me neighbor has a 81 pontiac bonneville diesel. got it to run after years but it was rolled 30 some od years ago
Unfortunate
What size engine, and who makes it?? Sounds decent.
5.7L oldsmobile diesel v8 from 1982
I’m surprised they didn’t put the 6.2 in those old Cadi’s…much better engine!
sounds like a big rig
i would like a custom block/ parts for oldsmobile, if somehow can tuning the engine enough to use hard + 200 400k miles i would go for it
Has the engine been studded?
No just a factory DX block
En donde tiene el tapon para ponerle diesel ese carro?
Behind the license plate
I always liked the late 70s-80s GM Diesels. It's too bad they had so many problems at the start which gave them a bad reputation. A big old land yacht that could get 30mpg!
you have no oil pressure! haha
Ja pierdole
Would you sell this? lol
Motor nissan a diesel
Zero oil pressure.
Those GM diesels would explode in a cloud of exhaust smoke. Terrible engines.
Yo sound like you are projecting
@@rock-uu7qr Nope. Had one explode as I said. It was a company car. Never ran again.
@@ThePrissy11 Yea the 5.7 olds disels are garbage
@@rock-uu7qr Yes. That was the company car.
We had a 1981 Cutlass diesel. Drove it until 1983 years to 123k miles. It was still running when we traded it in on shiny new 1984 VW Quantum. Sometimes it was just a matter of knowing how to take care of them.
Sounds awful.