Peugeot turbo diesel into smiley face transit,

What about a V6 petrol conversion and run on LPG ?
BTW is this a SWB or LWB version / low / Hi-Top Transit ?
I had a SWB medium top with the 2.5 Di and it went quite well so have you checked your current engine is healthy.

Paul H

The pug engine in the LDV is the 2.5 ohv turbo engine, like whats in a Pug 505.... its not an XUD. The XUD seems a bit small to me for a tranny, I imagine it would be very slow and blow itself to bits after a while. I understand the LDV pilots with it in are pretty hideously slow.

Transplanting one Derv for another, in this case, seems to be a time consuming and expensive option.
Have you actually had a look at how you Tranny is geared? They came with plenty of Diff ratios, perhaps yours could be changed to give a more comfortable cruising speed or better acceleration? Wheel sizes? Is it vaguely possible that you could change them to give you slightly higher/lower gearing? I'm just thinking that there are other, far cheaper possibilities in getting the best out of the standard engine without resorting to ripping it out and shoving another in which, even in TD form wont be hugely more powerful and certainly not neccessarily more reliable than the old nail you already have under the bonnet.

I've said it a few times now, but it works, so will happily keep mentioning it

Grab the gearbox from an LDV Pilot (based on an R380 dontcha know, so has the ford output on the prop)

forget the XUD9 fitted to the LDV, only good as a paperweight - can't be turbo'd either, the internals won't cope

Instead, grab an already turbo'd XUD9 (1.9L) or the larger XUD11 (2.1L), and pop along to a DAF dealer, and order yourself a spigot bearing for an LDV Pilot for a fiver.

You can't use a normal XUD flywheel, as they're all "pull" to release (quite a clever setup... but nothing else uses it!) you could use the LDV Pilot flywheel+clutch, but it's only a tiddler...

Instead, grab yourself a pug 306 HDi flywheel (push to release!) and get a clutch friction plate, meant for a Ford Galaxy - use the pressure plate for the 306 HDi


now.. to make your life a zillion times easier, get the cast-iron brackets that bolt to the side of the Pilot's engine, as these not only give you the engine mounts, the driver-side one also spaces out the clutch slave cylinder the required amount. You'll need to change the slave cylinder too - very common fitment, so nice and cheap


and a quick bit I found online, and used as reference when doing my conversion:

Cheers chairchild,thats some great info,but it's just dawned on me today that I have so many projects on the go that I've just decided to put it up for sale.
Thanks anyway for all the responses.