You must appricate these Oldsmobiles today. These B-body olds were great cars back in the day. My mother had an 85 Olds 88 and it was always a great car. These cars are better than most of the junk on the road today, and still get better MPG's than most. Thanks for posting this video, it brings back memories.
Had the fuel pump been equipped with a water filter, ALL of those break down stories wouldn't have existed.. It also scarred the reputations of the 6.2 and 6.5 Detroits.. To date I have NEVER actually seen or even heard of a 6.2L having blown heads, even with increased fuel delivery. Too bad, Imagine an America with (rather than Chevy Sonics and prissy little economy fwd 4cyls) We could've had Diesel rat-rods prowling the street! oh well.. Guess that'll never happen
Too bad they didnt test it out properly before it hit the market. The last 5,7 DX engines were OK. And forget the nonsense about problems "because it is derived from a gas engine". I know for sure that also VW, Peugeot and Nissan did the same and those engines are dead reliable. I had a Nissan LD20 in my Datsun Bluebird, same block as the gas engines. You can even interchange parts, a popular modification on 2,8 liter L series engine is to use the crank of a 2,8 diesel for its longer stroke.
@sabbath7081 Odds are pretty good your speakers have their own volume control - I can't access them from here. If you read further on the description, you'll see that there's not much I can do about the audio quality. The laserdisc player required for these discs was apparantly dealership specific, and the only one I could find to even play them ended up with this audio. Which irritates me as well. :-/
The engine and the cars it was placed in ruined the passenger car diesel market in the United States to where people think diesel cars are slow, sooty, and unreliable, and the only affordable diesel cars for sale currently are VW's.
LoL, at 16 years old, I had no respect for moms Cutlass, it had absolutely no problem spinning the tires, hung corners great too, took dad some time to figure out why the sidewalls were wearing, was taken in for quite a few alignments. I drove that car like I stole it, so I'd have to say they were very durable, the only thing it ever needed was injection pumps, bad fuel will destroy their governor weight, in 160,000 miles I went through 2 rebuilds. Wish I had one now.
can i ask you something about the performance,coz 5.7 litre engine its big one but only produce 105hp thats so ridiculous,can this engine goes faster by changing parts by parts,or bring a turbocharger
@alief54 Although the perverse quirk of any diesel is if you add any kind of forced induction i.e. turbo or supercharger, you get MORE fuel economy and power
I owned one of these. It was a nightmare! I once had the same tow truck driver 3 times in the same month, who couldn't believe I hadn't unloaded it yet. I said good bye after engine one failed at 45K miles and the new replacement targetmaster replacement engine filed 20K miles after that
I've got a 1981 impala with a dx block 135,000 miles and it runs like a champ. Two transmissions and a injector pump gave up but it's still a daily driver at 30 yrs old. Just take care of it (realize diesels are much different from gas) and there's no issues. The engines demise came from stupid people mistreating them
Mom had a 80 Buick LeSabre with 5.7 liter diesel in it. I wasn't old enough to drive then. It was slow to accelerate but would run with the best of them once you got through the gears. Love my mom dearly but she didn't believe in opening the hood on a car...ever. I believe that car would still be on the road today if someone else had owned it. This was around 1988 and 1989 when she had this car.
So how reliable are these engines? I found a 81 Cutlass coupe that had a 5.7 diesel ford 2500 dollars, but my dad said to stay away from them. And what kinda of fuel economy and acceleration?
@Motorfordtoyota Totally depends on how they're taken care of - if they're started, allowed to warm up before getting a load put on 'em, they last a LONG time - but if started and hammerred on cold, well they die much too soon. Economy was great, 30 was not an uncommon number. Performance? Well, let's just skip that question, shall we? LOL -- Biggest trouble with these was head gaskets - they'd fail, presumably from putting too much load on a cold engine, and techs would not replace headbolts
@Motorfordtoyota Should you buy a 350 diesel, you should be able to repair diesel engines. They require some maintenance, oil change after 1,500 miles and changing the coolant at least once a year. Always allow the engine to warm up before you put load on the engine block. If they are well taken care of is this a good engine with very little error. Acceleration is unfortunately poor, but the torque is okay. Consumption is good! Biggest problem was headgasket, this is solved with ARP head bolts.
@Motorfordtoyota Their biggest problem was poor head bolts, or so I've read. They didn't have good enough clamping force which caused all kinds of head and head gasket problems. Now they sell stronger aftermarket head bolts for the Olds Diesels that fix these problems.
@Motorfordtoyota One of the worst engines ever to come out of Detroit. This is what happens when you take a gasoline engine and try to convert it to diesel. Instead GM should have designed a diesel from the ground up. My buddy used to work as a mechanic at an Olds dealership. He told me as long as Olds sells cars with diesel engines, he'll never be without a job!
Its really sad GM dropped Oldsmobile along with Pontiac. They were such great cars back in the days. Alot of people still own oldsmobile's. I see a ton of these cars on the road today. Even if GM dropped Oldsmobile, Oldsmobile will still be around forever to come.
These cars may have been unreliable but they were ground braking. Until then it was impossible to get 20 mpg in these cars much less 30 some on the highway.
@bmtimv Ours got 37 MPG a 2 door 1980 Cutlas Calais, today you have to buy a crackerbox hybrid to get that, ours was on the hwy a lot, good thing we had it, or times would have been tougher due to the cost of fuel with dad having to get a job so far away. .
The thing to do on these is get a water fuel seperator filter, head-studs, change oil every 2000 miles, and you're good to go. Oh, and if you plan oh putting a turbo on these, i don't think your engine life will last as expected
My first car was an 1980 Bonneville Brougham Diesel. It had its share of transmission and injector pump problems, but it was still running fine with 174K when it got totalled. Typical GM make the comsumer iron out the bugs.
This was a great idea but a poor execution. If these engines would've held up as good as the Mercedes diesels things might be different in the car market in America.
5.7 Diesel is a good engine. Run the engine for 5-10 minutes before a run and change oil and filter every 1500 miles. I have a 1980 Cadillac Seville diesel (D-block). Never any nonsense and always starts. A neighbor had Olds Delta 88 in 22 years with 500,000 original engine miles, even in a mountain country like Norway where the 5.7 diesel is underpowered and must work 100% to not fall behind. Changed oil every 1500 miles and used the block heater in summer and winter was his advice!
Another way cool thing is the cylinder wall thickness of these blocks. You can bore the mess out of the block (can't think of the overbore off the top of my head), drop in the steel crank from a 425 and you have a 440 small block! too cool...
Yeah, the old 5.7s were perhaps the most under-appreciated engine in history for the masses, but those that ~did~ appreciate 'em, loved 'em. Take care of it, it'll last forever. Their reputation went to hell primarily because of driver habits and mechanic habits. Always let the engine warm up a bit before putting and demanding load on it, and never re-use head-bolts. The hardcore 5.7L guys tell me to use grade-9 (yes, NINE) aircraft studs, and dual exhaust, and never look back again.
@oldsmagnet then they'd fail again prematurely because the headbolts were stretched out and could not hold proper torque. I've heard recommendations to find aircraft grade-9 studs to replace the stock headbolts. couple that with a decent flowing exhaust, and you'll get a pretty bulletproof setup.
Pretty cool there olds magnet. Didnt realize they had such technology as they did for diesels back then. One thing i do know i am sure there are probably some original 80' diesel olds models still floating around out there somewhere because as most people that are car knowledge nuts(so to speak) know as long as they are taken care of diesels will last a LONG time...with some having mileage into the 250,000 to 300,000 mile range. cool video :)
My folks used to have one, a 4 door delta 88 and it was a goldish color with the targetmaster 350- it ran great , got awsome milage, and threw some serious heat in the winter- it was pretty quiet as i recall.
Eventually the one head gasket started leaking and we sold it. The only real issue we ever had with it was when both batteries died on it....
You must appricate these Oldsmobiles today. These B-body olds were great cars back in the day. My mother had an 85 Olds 88 and it was always a great car. These cars are better than most of the junk on the road today, and still get better MPG's than most. Thanks for posting this video, it brings back memories.
civicboy123 1 day ago
33 to 38 mpg ! that's what i got impressive for back then !
midnitesquirldog 4 days ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Awesome comercial!Very nice to see!
dieselolds350 1 month ago
Had the fuel pump been equipped with a water filter, ALL of those break down stories wouldn't have existed.. It also scarred the reputations of the 6.2 and 6.5 Detroits.. To date I have NEVER actually seen or even heard of a 6.2L having blown heads, even with increased fuel delivery. Too bad, Imagine an America with (rather than Chevy Sonics and prissy little economy fwd 4cyls) We could've had Diesel rat-rods prowling the street! oh well.. Guess that'll never happen
FANADICALCOWHEAD 4 months ago
Too bad they didnt test it out properly before it hit the market. The last 5,7 DX engines were OK. And forget the nonsense about problems "because it is derived from a gas engine". I know for sure that also VW, Peugeot and Nissan did the same and those engines are dead reliable. I had a Nissan LD20 in my Datsun Bluebird, same block as the gas engines. You can even interchange parts, a popular modification on 2,8 liter L series engine is to use the crank of a 2,8 diesel for its longer stroke.
KapteinOpel 5 months ago
Oh my god turn down that volume! I almost had a heart attack! Great commercial , I love the break down of the 5.7 idi.
sabbath7081 7 months ago 4
@sabbath7081 Odds are pretty good your speakers have their own volume control - I can't access them from here. If you read further on the description, you'll see that there's not much I can do about the audio quality. The laserdisc player required for these discs was apparantly dealership specific, and the only one I could find to even play them ended up with this audio. Which irritates me as well. :-/
oldsmagnet 7 months ago
The engine and the cars it was placed in ruined the passenger car diesel market in the United States to where people think diesel cars are slow, sooty, and unreliable, and the only affordable diesel cars for sale currently are VW's.
SP84Fanatic 7 months ago
this is very important even though this is old still good to know
pvarl351975 8 months ago
LoL, at 16 years old, I had no respect for moms Cutlass, it had absolutely no problem spinning the tires, hung corners great too, took dad some time to figure out why the sidewalls were wearing, was taken in for quite a few alignments. I drove that car like I stole it, so I'd have to say they were very durable, the only thing it ever needed was injection pumps, bad fuel will destroy their governor weight, in 160,000 miles I went through 2 rebuilds. Wish I had one now.
Maples01 8 months ago
can i ask you something about the performance,coz 5.7 litre engine its big one but only produce 105hp thats so ridiculous,can this engine goes faster by changing parts by parts,or bring a turbocharger
alief54 8 months ago
@alief54 It may have only 105hp, but diesels have much more torque than gas engines, and torque is what makes you go.
Streamliner009 5 months ago
@alief54 Although the perverse quirk of any diesel is if you add any kind of forced induction i.e. turbo or supercharger, you get MORE fuel economy and power
Mechknight73 1 month ago
Those engines were not too big to fail. They made great boat anchors for small sea going vessels.
autofletch 9 months ago
I owned one of these. It was a nightmare! I once had the same tow truck driver 3 times in the same month, who couldn't believe I hadn't unloaded it yet. I said good bye after engine one failed at 45K miles and the new replacement targetmaster replacement engine filed 20K miles after that
joaopereira408 9 months ago
How Cool is the Classic 80's Music!!!
rottysaurus 9 months ago
man them things was just a gas engine set up by some yahoo to burn diesel that would blow a head befor you got to 30,000 right out the show room
usnixon 9 months ago
I've got a 1981 impala with a dx block 135,000 miles and it runs like a champ. Two transmissions and a injector pump gave up but it's still a daily driver at 30 yrs old. Just take care of it (realize diesels are much different from gas) and there's no issues. The engines demise came from stupid people mistreating them
malnutritioned 9 months ago
Geez, Olds. Play some Journey or something. This music was dated then!
TurboVW2004 1 year ago
Mom had a 80 Buick LeSabre with 5.7 liter diesel in it. I wasn't old enough to drive then. It was slow to accelerate but would run with the best of them once you got through the gears. Love my mom dearly but she didn't believe in opening the hood on a car...ever. I believe that car would still be on the road today if someone else had owned it. This was around 1988 and 1989 when she had this car.
brianp859 1 year ago
So how reliable are these engines? I found a 81 Cutlass coupe that had a 5.7 diesel ford 2500 dollars, but my dad said to stay away from them. And what kinda of fuel economy and acceleration?
Motorfordtoyota 1 year ago
@Motorfordtoyota Totally depends on how they're taken care of - if they're started, allowed to warm up before getting a load put on 'em, they last a LONG time - but if started and hammerred on cold, well they die much too soon. Economy was great, 30 was not an uncommon number. Performance? Well, let's just skip that question, shall we? LOL -- Biggest trouble with these was head gaskets - they'd fail, presumably from putting too much load on a cold engine, and techs would not replace headbolts
oldsmagnet 1 year ago
@oldsmagnet Reminds me soo much of the northstars engine problems head gaskets.
SteelCity1981 7 months ago
@Motorfordtoyota Should you buy a 350 diesel, you should be able to repair diesel engines. They require some maintenance, oil change after 1,500 miles and changing the coolant at least once a year. Always allow the engine to warm up before you put load on the engine block. If they are well taken care of is this a good engine with very little error. Acceleration is unfortunately poor, but the torque is okay. Consumption is good! Biggest problem was headgasket, this is solved with ARP head bolts.
cadillac350diesel 1 year ago
@Motorfordtoyota Their biggest problem was poor head bolts, or so I've read. They didn't have good enough clamping force which caused all kinds of head and head gasket problems. Now they sell stronger aftermarket head bolts for the Olds Diesels that fix these problems.
WillieWonka928D 8 months ago
@Motorfordtoyota One of the worst engines ever to come out of Detroit. This is what happens when you take a gasoline engine and try to convert it to diesel. Instead GM should have designed a diesel from the ground up. My buddy used to work as a mechanic at an Olds dealership. He told me as long as Olds sells cars with diesel engines, he'll never be without a job!
itsmegp46 4 months ago
Its really sad GM dropped Oldsmobile along with Pontiac. They were such great cars back in the days. Alot of people still own oldsmobile's. I see a ton of these cars on the road today. Even if GM dropped Oldsmobile, Oldsmobile will still be around forever to come.
coololds85 1 year ago
These cars may have been unreliable but they were ground braking. Until then it was impossible to get 20 mpg in these cars much less 30 some on the highway.
bmtimv 1 year ago
@bmtimv Ours got 37 MPG a 2 door 1980 Cutlas Calais, today you have to buy a crackerbox hybrid to get that, ours was on the hwy a lot, good thing we had it, or times would have been tougher due to the cost of fuel with dad having to get a job so far away. .
Maples01 10 months ago
The thing to do on these is get a water fuel seperator filter, head-studs, change oil every 2000 miles, and you're good to go. Oh, and if you plan oh putting a turbo on these, i don't think your engine life will last as expected
Hotrodx199 1 year ago
My first car was an 1980 Bonneville Brougham Diesel. It had its share of transmission and injector pump problems, but it was still running fine with 174K when it got totalled. Typical GM make the comsumer iron out the bugs.
hotjockosu 1 year ago
That Delta 88 is georgous.
dstarks80 1 year ago 5
This was a great idea but a poor execution. If these engines would've held up as good as the Mercedes diesels things might be different in the car market in America.
Fordguy02 1 year ago
wow they really knew how to sell a car back then. They don't give shit for info on how your car works now!
JISINSANE3 1 year ago
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Motorfordtoyota 1 year ago
5.7 Diesel is a good engine. Run the engine for 5-10 minutes before a run and change oil and filter every 1500 miles. I have a 1980 Cadillac Seville diesel (D-block). Never any nonsense and always starts. A neighbor had Olds Delta 88 in 22 years with 500,000 original engine miles, even in a mountain country like Norway where the 5.7 diesel is underpowered and must work 100% to not fall behind. Changed oil every 1500 miles and used the block heater in summer and winter was his advice!
cadillac350diesel 1 year ago
That is seriously cool. Thanks for sharing!
focusonthegreen 1 year ago
holy shit, 21 models! Cool, diesel
Motorfordtoyota 1 year ago
I miss those big comfortable Oldsmobiles.
auaiao9 1 year ago
Another way cool thing is the cylinder wall thickness of these blocks. You can bore the mess out of the block (can't think of the overbore off the top of my head), drop in the steel crank from a 425 and you have a 440 small block! too cool...
MrBuggyG 2 years ago
This makes me love my 83 Gutlass Cruiser diesel sooooo much more.
jafgas 2 years ago
Yeah, the old 5.7s were perhaps the most under-appreciated engine in history for the masses, but those that ~did~ appreciate 'em, loved 'em. Take care of it, it'll last forever. Their reputation went to hell primarily because of driver habits and mechanic habits. Always let the engine warm up a bit before putting and demanding load on it, and never re-use head-bolts. The hardcore 5.7L guys tell me to use grade-9 (yes, NINE) aircraft studs, and dual exhaust, and never look back again.
oldsmagnet 2 years ago
@oldsmagnet
Beautiful!!
I recently bought a 1982 Chevy diesel wagon with 102K, runs GREAT. Will install new ARP bolts soon. The Achilles heel of this engine
jolow2 1 year ago
@oldsmagnet Thanks for taking the time to show this television ad from years ago.It's great!Thanks for doing so.
dieselolds350 1 year ago
@oldsmagnet then they'd fail again prematurely because the headbolts were stretched out and could not hold proper torque. I've heard recommendations to find aircraft grade-9 studs to replace the stock headbolts. couple that with a decent flowing exhaust, and you'll get a pretty bulletproof setup.
oldsmagnet 1 year ago
Pretty cool there olds magnet. Didnt realize they had such technology as they did for diesels back then. One thing i do know i am sure there are probably some original 80' diesel olds models still floating around out there somewhere because as most people that are car knowledge nuts(so to speak) know as long as they are taken care of diesels will last a LONG time...with some having mileage into the 250,000 to 300,000 mile range. cool video :)
matts6887 2 years ago
i got to say it looks pretty good!!, have you heard of oldsmar, florida? it was the winter home of mr. olds!!
therockkkkher 2 years ago
My folks used to have one, a 4 door delta 88 and it was a goldish color with the targetmaster 350- it ran great , got awsome milage, and threw some serious heat in the winter- it was pretty quiet as i recall.
Eventually the one head gasket started leaking and we sold it. The only real issue we ever had with it was when both batteries died on it....
dangeroustoys56 2 years ago