Maybe look at the European models as a guide. The current UK/Eurpean Ford Ranger is available with a 2.8 turbo diesel I think, and most have 4 door crew cabs now. When I lived in UK, I ran diesels. LR Discovery 2.5 TDI, Jeep Grand Cherokee, 2.5 VM TD, and others. Most got around 28 – 30 MPG city, 35-38 HWY. All standard trans and would tow 6000 – 8000# if you stirred the stick. That’s Imperial gallons. I think you would be hard pushed to match these figure with an engine swap.
Europe was in the same place the US is now, 20 years ago. Now probably 80% of all trucks and suv’s are diesel. Beware of trying to install ag / ind diesels in trucks. They don’t have the rev range for the truck tranny. I saw a few conversions tried that didn’t work out very good, and needed overdrives, transfer case gears and diffs changed to get them to work.
Personally I think you need to look for diesel engine and tranny as a complete unit. I was thinking about importing either a complete vehicle, or a front clip (engine, rad, trans etc) for a conversion. So far though thinking about it is as far as I got.
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