1700 Mile Trip In The 1.9L TDI Diesel Swapped 1 Ton Dakota! 6500 LBS With Cargo!

Mostly a fly through trip checking MPG along the way and catching alot of wind most of the trip. Can't complain though the little TDI did amazing the whole way!

[@heyyoubuddy6749]

Hi buddy how are ya? Oh man I appreciate you making this video. I love your builds!! Your truck is a heavy vehicle and it still did well with a/c, head winds and hills!! I would love to put a BHW, ax15 dana18 set up in a Willy’s overland station wagon, for cross country road trips when my wife retires. I also love the comment about getting home and getting back to your black diesel!! I’ve run bd in my trucks for 11 years now. Take care GOD bless you and your family!!

[@TDISwaps]

Glad to spread the knowledge! And thanks for watching, God bless you too!

[@JohnSmith-tj5se]

I love black diesel, it's the best

[@creativecontrol9047]

Thank you for posting your trip. I think your Dakota is such a cool build and definitely hope to get started on my project soon

[@TDISwaps]

You won't regret it!

[@dannork1240]

How did I not know about this channel until now? This is awesome 👍🏼

[@TDISwaps]

Glad you found me!!

[@Dw-797]

She’s heavy and still getting good on gas.. awesome bud

[@TDISwaps]

Yeah almost unbelievable

[@Dw-797]

@@TDISwaps gives me hope to put one in my jku

[@TDISwaps]

@Dw-797 yep just get the gearing right and don't be afraid to use RPMs and she trucks right along

[@Dw-797]

@@TDISwapsyeah will depend on what transmission ends up in it.. but I’ll have 5:38 gears so hopefully will rev enough either way.

[@TDISwaps]

@Dw-797 that's a good start!

[@goatsmisadventures]

My 86 yota pickup gets 16.5 mpg best I can get 22r motor.. man I can't wait to swap my truck

[@TDISwaps]

Ya is so easy to get my Toyota over 30 mpg

[@1eye341]

Do you have to manually shift the transmission, or does the tcm still operate it?

[@TDISwaps]

I did not have a tcm with the jeep transmission so I installed a gate shifter to electronically operate the transmission solenoids for shifting. This works well to hold gears and stay in boost when going though rolling hills

[@manuelpiney7876]

Hey I need this swap o my Hummer h3 manual transmission 👍👍

[@TDISwaps]

Yes you do!

[@dakota121078]

Very impressive!

[@TDISwaps]

Thanks!

[@tonydiesel3444]

Put 1.9 in a small family boat

[@TDISwaps]

Someday that would be fun!

[@Grasshopper.80]

I plan on doing a TDI swap and you videos have been very helpful. Thanks

[@TDISwaps]

Glad to help! And thanks for watching 😁

[@rossconverse9067]

Hi, I thought it was an interesting video mostly because of the documented fuel economy testing. I'd love to get other people's opinions on what that exact same truck would have got for gas mileage with the original gas engine, what do you think Kyle? Keep up the good, interesting work. I would estimate about 30% Less MPG. Thanks, Ross

[@TDISwaps]

Usually I got between 10-14 mpg with the 360 V8 before, thanks for the feedback!

[@JohnSmith-tj5se]

I was laughing when you were showing the pile of extra parts in the back your gravel lot looks really nice, id like to do that to my yard, what's involved in that?

[@TDISwaps]

Hey it worked, there's never any issues when you prepare for them! Get a good base down underneath and have semis drop the rock in, skid steer helps for leveling.

[@ryancollins3227]

Back again to say i really need to tdi swap my wifes 4runner 🤣🤣

[@TDISwaps]

Yes you do!

[@Speedy2222]

adding a resonator may help with your in cab drone, run like an 8" resonator

[@TDISwaps]

Ya I had a resonator muffler on it to start with, but it didn't do much under full throttle loads on the big hills

[@Speedy2222]

@@TDISwaps what size?

[@TDISwaps]

@Speedy2222 12" it was like a straight through muffler, you can see it in the earlier videos

[@foxbodyford]

The oil pressure from start to first stop dropped quite a bit.

[@TDISwaps]

Oil pressure depends quite a bit on engine temp and rpm, it's been running about the same usually, but if oil temp gets over 210 I drop to 35 or so at 2500 rpm, still well within spec though, they run extra high cold

[@jacobkurtz9020]

Nice trip! Great MPGs for such a heavy truck. This is an ALH right? How deep of a build did you do on it? Do you know roughly what your hp/tq figures are?

[@TDISwaps]

It's better than I imagined! This is a stock internal ALH, just added head studs, turbo, injectors and tuning. Along with small improvements for the swap. Should be 180-200 HP and 280-320 TQ

[@jacobkurtz9020]

@@TDISwaps very nice! What turbo are you running? I just bought an ALH I’m gonna build up for a jeep swap

[@TDISwaps]

@jacobkurtz9020 this has a gtd2056 turbo

[@herseyjake1]

Enjoyed the mpg updates.

[@TDISwaps]

Pretty crazy I can't get this thing under 20 MPG

[@joshuavallot8921]

cool truck, great job

[@TDISwaps]

Thanks man!

[@davidreasoner751]

Impressive for sure.

[@TDISwaps]

Thanks!