This is two pages longer than it needs to be. With enough money you can do anything. Diesel would need to be injected. Glow plugs are just to get it started and would burn out if needed to keep running. You'd need a custom crankshaft, cam, rods and pistons.
Way less work and $$$ to just buy a...
Now that I'm in the city on a small lot I've been reduced to a Craftsman T210. Just a generic box store machine. Used to have a JD pulling a Swisher and two Craftsman. One was for pulling around a garden trailer (no deck) for landscaping, wood chips, compost, ... and the other to rough cut in...
Like Wekjo just above I also use my laptop/desktop. I'm running a free program (irfanview) that I've had for well over 10 years. No spyware, no ads, it's run smoothly. It has way more features than I use but it's great for reducing photo size for posting on line and it also allows you to rotate...
I have to say when people mention WD-40 I have a knee jerk reaction to also say that it's a water displacement formula and that it's great for the ignition system but not much else. But that's the original WD-40 now WD-40 as a company makes a number of different lubricants that are all under the...