Original advertising laserdisc info for the 1980 Oldsmobile Diesel engine, audio is harsh, sorry, don’t know if it was any better than this in the showrooms though LOL
Tags: 1980, DIESEL.wmv, Olds
Original advertising laserdisc info for the 1980 Oldsmobile Diesel engine, audio is harsh, sorry, don’t know if it was any better than this in the showrooms though LOL
Tags: 1980, DIESEL.wmv, Olds
@Motorfordtoyota One of the worst engines ever to come out of Detroit. This is what happens when you take a gasoline engine and try to convert it to diesel. Instead GM should have designed a diesel from the ground up. My buddy used to work as a mechanic at an Olds dealership. He told me as long as Olds sells cars? with diesel engines, he’ll never be without a job!
Had the fuel pump been equipped with a water filter, ALL of? those break down stories wouldn’t have existed. . It also scarred the reputations of the 6. 2 and 6. 5 Detroits. . To date I have NEVER actually seen or even heard of a 6. 2L having blown heads, even with increased fuel delivery. Too bad, Imagine an America with (rather than Chevy Sonics and prissy little economy fwd 4cyls) We could’ve had Diesel rat-rods prowling the street! oh well. . Guess that’ll never happen
Too bad they didnt test it out properly before it hit the market. The last 5,7 DX engines were OK. And forget the nonsense about problems “because it is derived from a gas engine”. I know for sure that also VW, Peugeot and Nissan did the same and those engines are dead? reliable. I had a Nissan LD20 in my Datsun Bluebird, same block as the gas engines. You can even interchange parts, a popular modification on 2,8 liter L series engine is to use the crank of a 2,8 diesel for its longer stroke.
@alief54 It may have only 105hp, but diesels have much more torque than gas engines,? and torque is what makes you go.
@sabbath7081 Odds are pretty good your speakers have their own volume control – I can’t access them from here. If you read further on the description, you’ll see that there’s not much I can do about the audio quality. The laserdisc player required for these discs was apparantly? dealership specific, and the only one I could find to even play them ended up with this audio. Which irritates me as well. :-/
Oh my god turn down that volume! I almost had a heart attack! Great commercial , I love the break down of? the 5. 7 idi.
The engine and the cars it was placed in ruined the passenger car diesel market in the United States to where people think diesel cars are? slow, sooty, and unreliable, and the only affordable diesel cars for sale currently are VW’s.
@oldsmagnet? Reminds me soo much of the northstars engine problems head gaskets.
@Motorfordtoyota Their biggest problem was poor head bolts, or so I’ve read. They didn’t have good enough clamping force which caused all kinds of head and head gasket problems. Now they sell stronger? aftermarket head bolts for the Olds Diesels that fix these problems.
this is very important even though this is old still good to? know
LoL, at 16 years old, I had no respect for moms Cutlass,? it had absolutely no problem spinning the tires, hung corners great too, took dad some time to figure out why the sidewalls were wearing, was taken in for quite a few alignments. I drove that car like I stole it, so I’d have to say they were very durable, the only thing it ever needed was injection pumps, bad fuel will destroy their governor weight, in 160,000 miles I went through 2 rebuilds. Wish I had one now.
can i ask you something about the performance,coz 5. 7 litre? engine its big one but only produce 105hp thats so ridiculous,can this engine goes faster by changing parts by parts,or bring a turbocharger
Those engines were not too big to fail. ? They made great boat anchors for small sea going vessels.
I owned one of these. It was a nightmare! I once had? the same tow truck driver 3 times in the same month, who couldn’t believe I hadn’t unloaded it yet. I said good bye after engine one failed at 45K miles and the new replacement targetmaster replacement engine filed 20K miles after that
How Cool is the Classic 80’s Music!!!?
man them things was just a? gas engine set up by some yahoo to burn diesel that would blow a head befor you got to 30,000 right out the show room
I’ve got a 1981 impala with a dx block 135,000 miles and? it runs like a champ. Two transmissions and a injector pump gave up but it’s still a daily driver at 30 yrs old. Just take care of it (realize diesels are much different from gas) and there’s no issues. The engines demise came from stupid people mistreating them
@bmtimv Ours got 37 MPG a 2 door 1980 Cutlas Calais, today you have to buy a crackerbox hybrid to get that, ours was on the hwy a lot, good thing we had it, or times would have been tougher due to? the cost of fuel with dad having to get a job so far away. .
Geez, Olds. Play some Journey or something. ? This music was dated then!
Mom had a 80 Buick LeSabre with 5. 7 liter diesel in it. I wasn’t old enough? to drive then. It was slow to accelerate but would run with the best of them once you got through the gears. Love my mom dearly but she didn’t believe in opening the hood on a car. . . ever. I believe that car would still be on the road today if someone else had owned it. This was around 1988 and 1989 when she had this car.
@Motorfordtoyota Should you buy a 350 diesel, you should be able to repair diesel engines. They require some maintenance, oil change after 1,500 miles and changing the coolant at least once a year. Always allow the engine to warm up before you put load on the engine block. If they are well taken care of is this a good engine with very little error. Acceleration is unfortunately poor, but the torque is okay. Consumption is good! Biggest problem was headgasket, this is solved with? ARP head bolts.
@oldsmagnet then they’d fail again prematurely because the headbolts were stretched out and could not hold proper torque. ? I’ve heard recommendations to find aircraft grade-9 studs to replace the stock headbolts. couple that with a decent flowing exhaust, and you’ll get a pretty bulletproof setup.
@Motorfordtoyota Totally depends on how they’re taken care of – if they’re started, allowed to warm up before getting a load put on ‘em,? they last a LONG time – but if started and hammerred on cold, well they die much too soon. Economy was great, 30 was not an uncommon number. Performance? Well, let’s just skip that question, shall we? LOL — Biggest trouble with these was head gaskets – they’d fail, presumably from putting too much load on a cold engine, and techs would not replace headbolts
So how reliable are these engines? I found a? 81 Cutlass coupe that had a 5. 7 diesel ford 2500 dollars, but my dad said to stay away from them. And what kinda of fuel economy and acceleration?
Its really sad GM dropped Oldsmobile along with Pontiac. They were such? great cars back in the days. Alot of people still own oldsmobile’s. I see a ton of these cars on the road today. Even if GM dropped Oldsmobile, Oldsmobile will still be around forever to come.