fhgdd
 

asedqw

Well if Ford decides to put a diesel in an F150 it's not going to be in a 2004 - 2008 F150! :lol:

gfhf

You cannnn do whatever you want.

sdfdfsw

Like the man said, you can do anything you want. The real question is how much work will it take, how money will you have to throw at it, and will it be worth it?

All great questions. :) I'm trying to learn the answers.

If price was no object, what would be the pros and cons?

pointless really

after you paid the money to buy the motor, upgrade the front suspension to hold the weight, changed the entire fuel system over, ran new exhaust piping, ran new PCM/wiring (unless went mechanical injection), trans adapters or whole different tranny & driveshaft, firewall modification to make it fix

you'd easily break $10,000 if not more money. you can take 1/2 that and have a Supercharged 5.4 3v beast.



don't see the benefit of this swap

i have been thinkin about doin the same thing. i called a few places its just so expensive cheapest quote i got was 14k

Just wait for your cam phasers to go out and it will atleast sound like a diesel... :lol:

Tylus, I'm going to win the lottery. :p

Hypothetically, price being no issue. What are the benefits of diesel over gas?

^^^^ alot of torque!

Ford decided to not put a diesel in the F-150 due to the torque characteristics of the newer gas engines almost duplicates the higher cost diesel engines. You can convert any truck you like to diesel and a lot of folks have done so but it comes with problems in the future. Diesels have a lot of vibrations and harmonics that a gas engine doesn't have. Frame steel will fatigue if not made specifically for a diesel. I have a great friend that put a modded Cummins 5.9 in a 1979 F-250 4x4. Beautiful truck but even though I told him he was going to have problems, he did it anyway and is now having our engineers figure out how to save the frame from more micro fractures. So yeah, you can put a diesel in anything if you have the money and don't mind a few issues.....like the frame breaking.

I think the easier option would be to find one of the smaller diesels from the Land Rovers (4.4L?) if you wanted diesel power without twisting the frame up.

-Torque
-gas mileage
-in general a diesel will last longer than a gasser(lots of variables there though)