Welcome to Rockway Tech's blog for our first ever diesel conversion project! The vehicle of choice is a 1994 Isuzu Trooper 4X4 with a 3.2L V6 gas engine with auto. transmission. The plan is to remove the gas engine and install a 3.1L diesel (4JG2) engine and auto. transmission in its place. A group of 3 students and their teacher will perform the transplant in the fall semester of 2011. The projected finish date is December 2011.To begin the conversion, we needed to educate ourselves on what we were undertaking. We researched the vehicle and engine information of both the gas and diesel engines. We acquired an online manual for the original gas engine model of the 1994 Isuzu Trooper. We also found an excellent PDF file manual online 4JG2 diesel engine Trooper. The first few days were spent educating ourselves to understand the conversion process and the changes we would need to make to get the 4JG2 to fit in our Trooper.
The picture of the Trooper was taken after some work was already done.
