The Restoration starts!- '80 Eagle Turbo Diesel

[rollguy]

I need to get head gasgets, and I am sure I can ge them from Italy or some other Euro country.  These engines are a modular design, so a 4,5,or 6 cyl gasget would work. I got the fuel pump on ebay. It is from an Alfa Romeo 4 cyl VM Diesel. It is a perfect match, and works great. 
I got the car started this afternoon.  I still have some wiring issues to deal with, and then replace the head gasgets, and it should be ready to go!

[IowaEagle]

She is alive again!  That is great news!

[80SpiritGT]

Mandatory movie file required.

 


Purely so I can drool over it of course. 

[rollguy]

If I could figure out how to get a video on line, I would make one!

[80SpiritGT]

Check out You Tube. They wil host movies for you for free.

Or, if you have your own web site, you may be able to upload it there, and just supply people with the link to it. Or, I may be able to host it for you, but you would have to send it to me some how. If its too large email might not work, in that case, you might have to mail it ot me on disk. In any event, it seems to be taking me decades to get anything done lately.

[eaglewagon1]

Whats the news on the ol' turbo diesel?  im a little out of date here, i may have missed something........

[rollguy]

I have had so many projects that I have hot had time to work on it.  It is not far from being road worthy, but still too many projects right now.

[eaglewagon1]

wheres the second one located? does a member own it?

[IowaEagle]

I think it was spotted in a junk yard???

[83Eagle!]

I did not know that it was spotted in a 'yard.  That is crap.  If it is still there we need to get it to RollyGuy

[eaglewagon1]

if it gets crushed we need to have a moment of silence.... is nobody seriosly trying to find it?

[IowaEagle]

It has been some time ago since it was posted that it may be there.  Here are a couple of threads about it.

http://forums.amceaglenest.com/index.php?topic=3225.msg138282#msg138282

http://forums.amceaglenest.com/index.php?topic=14765.0

[rollguy]

UPDATE:
I got started working on the car again this week to get it ready for the meet in Omaha this summer.  I was able to put power to the glow plugs and it started right up (at least a year since it was last started).  I drove it from the back yard to the shade covered driveway so I could start working on it.  The first order of business was to get the glow plug system working.  The original system had a solenoid wired to some kind of resistor (timer?) that did not work.  Since I am familiar with Mercedes Benz glow plug systems, I decided to use a 6 cyl glow plug timer and wiring from a 1991 300D.  I got the parts from my local self serve wrecking yard for cheap (compared to the dealer).  Here are photos of the finished (nearly) project:
This photo shows the wiring on the glow plugs

Glow plug timer

I was starting to finish hooking up the wires inside and noticed some fried wires under the dash (after removing the A/C tray:

The entire rear wire harness has fried wires along it's length:


I am in need of the entire rear wire harness from the connection under the left kick panel all the way to the rear (photo of wire harness removed):

[IowaEagle]

I am guessing that harness should be the same as found in gasoline versions.

[thereverendbill]

Awesome that you got it running again.  i have been toying with the idea of a cummins 4B in an eagle and i have an engine sitting at the garage (out of an excavator that fell off the trailer).  i may start looking for a donor eagle once I get some more stuff finished up at the topsoil plant (my front yard)