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Yeah, but that means I have to find a road-use diesel engine small enough. From what I understand, that would mean I just can't use, for example, the 1-Cyl Yanmar LE from eBay because its for stationary use.

What is SEMA and BAR?

Has anybody building a Diesel Bike know what I need to do to meet California emissions standards? From what I can tell if I buy a naked bike frame (ie kit bike) and then modify it for use with a diesel engine, I have to get it inspected as basically a homebuilt vehicle. If I take a donor bike and re...

TDI Golf and a Kawasaki z1000.
Diesel bike in planning.
Also a very old boat with a very old Kubota engine.

Er, maybe I misread how that works.

THat's nice because I was looking for an oil filter bypass for my boat. The oil filter is so hard to change and I wanted to move the filter somewhere else, and yeah it's a small water-cooled Kubota engine.

The Yanmar single cyl ones seem to have an oil pump integrated onto the side of the engine, as demonstrated in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ0p8hVF7D4 From what I can see, I'd have to do this: Remove the protruding draw tube, and plug. Drill and tap a new hole in the side of the engin...

I wanted to build a small genset that I could run in an enclosed space to reduce the noise. Because it would be enclosed, I thought switching to oil cooling would be a viable alternative to buying a much more expensive water cooled engine. I know it's not exactly on topic for motorcycles, but I aske...

I've been lurking for a bit and I've always liked the idea of a diesel bike and would love to build one one day. I've been looking at the smaller 6hp and 10hp Yanmar and Yanmar-Style Knock Offs. Those would be the engines based on the Yanmar L100 and L70 series. I was curious if anybody had successf...