The engine may still by manufactured and imported by JESCO in California. The engine is popular in Australia utilized mostly as a reliable pump for remote livestock stations. In 1981, pistons were upgraded to a three ring piston with a steel compression ring carrier cast as part of the piston for improved durability. The engine has three main bearings (an SD33 six minus two rear cylinders) and was never available with turbocharging like its six-cylinder derivative. The SD22 was used in the Datsun 720 pickup trucks 1980 through 1983, producing 61 SAE brake horsepower 4000 rpm. It was used in the 1965-1971 Nissan Cedric It was also produced in a marine version MN 22 by Chrysler Marine under license during the 1980s. The SD22 is a normally aspirated 2.2L (2164 cc) Straight 4 diesel engine. The Diesel version Nissan Cedric in mid 1960s was using this engine. The SD20 is a normally aspirated 2.0L Straight 4 diesel engine. The filter mounts won't interchange, either, because of very different oil cooler transfer tubes.Nissan Model SD Series Diesel Engine SD22, SD23, SD25 and SD33 Engine Service Manuals Or a Himself thing (He should I am about to make many ritual sacrifices of body water from Fried Day liquid lunch. The SD-22 mounts the filter more-or-less vertically (back to Day One), whereas the 33 is horizontal so whether the neither the filter elements are are in fact and indeed identical is a Jesco thing. I have a very old 'Nissan Diesel SD-22 & SD-33' service manual, and both the 22 and the 33 look to have the same cannister filter.

Whether the screw-on cartridge used in overseas SD-33 crossreferences to anything we have I plain ol' don't know, though Himself does and would perhaps deign to share.Ģ. I think the number was PH 2850, Fram (sorry, I didn't know better.) Whatever that filter number is, it is a standard off-the-shelf item.īUT: it is real itty-bitty, so I used the larger filter spec'd for the LD-28 diesel used in Datsun '810/810-Maxima' cars from the '81-'82 period-apples/apples filter, just bigger volume. Look under 'Nissan' and 'Datsun' both 'cause 'Datsun' morphed into 'Nissan' in '83, which is also the year the SD-25 became standard diesel (I've seen exactly one in this country).

The 1981 and '82 Datsun 720 pickups I had used a 'sanitized' version of the SD-22 with a screw-on cartridge type oil filter the number escapes me, but you can look it up easily enough in the filter catalog at a typical AP store.

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