What might that noise be?

I thought it would be fun to have a 5.7 diesel GM, but I can't imagine having it replace my modern 2004 Cadillac Seville with the Northstar. Wait a minute, the Northstar is considered junk too! :E

I guess I'm not known on this board for choosing reliable engines. :B:B:B

Looks like the car that's in my driveway right now. :E 82 Caddie at 30 MPG baby and waste oil for free!

I'll be like those other brand people and use the same logic that own a diesel that is .3 liters bigger. Mine has been a great engine and maintenance is the key. :B They get a bad rap from people that turn their pumps up. :B

So all you people stop bashing this engine because they are great engines because my has been great! :B

PS it's funny that the amount of head bolts that hold my heads on are the same amount as that other brand. :W

A friend's Dad back then had an Oldsmobile Toronado diesel. He pulled the diesel and had a gas 350 put in, and it ran great. I still remember it as one of the most comfortable cars I've ever been in.

For years I didn't believe my friend when he said the car originally had a diesel!

I lived in western NC in the early 80s and had one of those turds for a company car. Might as well have walked up some of those hills.

Yep GM single handedly killed the diesel car market in the USA with that joke. Hope the clown that decided it was a good idea to take an Oldsmobile 350 V8 gas engine and change it into a diesel got fired and never had the opportunity to work again.

Don

My late father had a 1979 Olds 98 Regency Brougham diesel he bought from a friend. Was amazing they were still friends after the sale........:B

vacuumbed wrote:
I want one! :B Clicky

NO YOU DON'T :w

Actually ours was a 1979 Eleganti. What a POC. That engine was in the shop monthly, I kid you not. And that model came with true spoke wheels, another failure. I know why this one had the cheap caps put on. I had to do the same thing as the true wire wheels looked great, they needed to be tuned as much as a piano.
We finally put like a 403? old's engine into it which took out the tranny within a year :S
Other than that it was a sweet car. Interior was great, windows worked great, radio worked great. I really loved the car, just hated the power train.

I was one of the lucky people.
I had an 80 Bonneville with the dreaded diesel.
It was a great car, I bought it used.
The engine never gave us any problems.

Oh my god. I remember that fiasco well.

Yep, I remember GM's "bad old days".