Conrad, That is great info! -Brad
On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 9:10:07 PM UTC, conrad.jacoby@gmail.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
---In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, <polespearbogy@...> wrote :
>I am planning to set/fix the IP timing in my 81 CJ7 (has a 240D mill and tranny) when the >weather improves. I was going to make a video of that just for this purpose.
>p.s. I am also glad that someone else has the good sense to put one of these engines in >a jeep.
Speaking of MB diesel-powered jeeps, I am endlessly amused that while we all love our OM617 5-cylinder motors, it's the humble OM616 that outlasted the OM617, remaining in production well into the 2000s. It looks like they might have finally stopped production, but in 1982, Bajaj Tempo Motors of India (now known as Force Motors) acquired the rights to manufacture the OM616 engine to power their line of light trucks. The OM616 went on to serve a distinguished second life there in several configurations, including a weird 90-hp turbocharged version that powered the "Force Gurhka" extreme off-road vehicle.
It's unclear to me exactly when the OM616 finally went out of production, but they kept churning them out well into the 2000s. Daimler-Benz owned a minority stake in the company until 2001, and their jeep equivalents of the 200s look very similar to older G-wagons. I think I saw a picture of a 2005 Gurkha on the InterWebs that still had an OM616 under the hood. A 2016 advertisement referenced a 2.6 liter "OM616-derived" motor.
--Conrad J.
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