Hello, everybody!

[Nissan_Ranger]

Hello, all! I just found these forums and am pleased to find out that there are many more afficionados of the Nissan SD22 than I realized. I look forward to conversing with y'all...

My involvement with these wonderful engines goes back a good number of years beginning with a friend who bought an original Nissan Kingcab back in 1981. When the body and frame rotted out, he bought a Ford Ranger with a blown gasser engine and hired me to marry the old SD22 and the Ranger. He drove that for seven more years and finally gave it up, selling it to me. I drove the Ranger for another two years.

In that two years, I found another SD22 in a farmers field (literally) that had only 130000 kilometers on it. I took the drive train home for 100 dollars. I then bought a 1997 Ford Ranger with a V-6 gasser. I drove that one time to see what it was like, took the engine and tranny out, and got a couple of hundred bucks for the engine at the wreckers. Ten days of work later, I had my 'new' SD22 engine and transmission in the Ranger body. I let the vehicle down off the jack stands, started it up, and drove it out of the shop; no bugs or glitches. That was three years ago and it's going strong giving me 40 - 45 MPG (Imperial gallons) in the summer and 35 - 39 MPG in the winter.

See it here: http://members.kos.net/andye/

Some of the tricky details included marrying the Datsun transmission output shaft yoke spline to the Ford yoke. The speedo is electronic, so I made a union box inside which the Datsun speedo cable drives the Ford speed sensor. The fuel shut-off/enrichment lever is now controlled by the manual cable you see in the cab view. The servo motor had to go because it could not fit into the Ford frame. I had to use the Nissan motor mount on the left side (to clear the starter) and the Ford mount on the right side. I had to cut off part of the 60/40 drivers seat to give room for the shifter, which was also reshaped to angle back from the edge of the console. The original Ford muffler is being fed by the stainless steel exhaust pipe I fabricated; it sounds great, too. The original Ford rear end was the PERFECT ratio; at 81 - 82 indicated KPH, I am actually doing 80 KPH. The glow plugs are fed by a push button controlled fender mounted starter relay. I use Quaker State Synthetic "Q" 10W30 oil which allows the engine to start at temperatures as low as -25 F without being plugged in! Oil consumption is about 1500 - 2000 km per liter of oil consumed. The transmission and rear end are lubed by Amsoil's high grade synthetic gear lube. I had to give up the power steering as there was no way I could mount a p/s pump on the Nissan engine:-( In the summer time, the cruising range is typical 1000 kilometers per tank, maximum 1200km.

I'll be happy to answer any questions...

Regards,

N_R

[glenlloyd]

Nice conversion and welcome to the group. Al, owner and operator of this place will I'm sure have questions since I know he's thinking about dropping one of his spare LD28 engines into a Ranger one of these days.

Do me a favor and add to your profile where you live and some other info so we know what part of the world you live in. I noticed you mentioned imperial gallons so I know you're not in the US.

Again welcome and I hope you find the site a good resource.

steve a