Throw a FluidDamper on that 4BT and the idle vibrations go away. It's a $500 hit though. It's on mt Santa wish list.

 

By the way, you have to cut three on a 6 cylinder or it will shake itself (and you) to death. The problem on a turbocharged engine is you can't hold open the intake or the exhaust valve to kill the cylinder. Wanna is right in that if you just put solenoid valves on three injector lines the pumping losses would kill your performance and mileage. You could take out three rod/piston assemblies but you would have to machine off the adjacent counterweights and rebalance. It's just not worth it. I'm pulling 20MPG in town by coasting down hills and shutting off at long stop lights.....

 

the deals are out there for those engines i bought 2 from a guy w/ transmission for 500.00. one engone working the other blown head gasket

 

where did you find this one?

 

where im from these frito lay trucks make good plumbing wagons. I ask a contractor about it and went out there and bam 500.00 2 4bt 1 w/ a turbo 400 tranny the other with a muncie. i bought a another truck a 77' crew cab and its going to have chevy 700r4 Lock toqure converter and transfer case

 

wish i would have saw that one confederatepirate. thats in my neck of the woods. i have a 85 6.2diesel 3/4 ton 4x4 waiting for a 4bt.

 

does this guy have a clue?

 

You need to hook me up with some of these guys with 4BTs. I'm trying to find one for a possibly chevy swap.

 

i'll keep my eye out for soem more

 

????? who was that intended for?

 

no disrespect intended but i'd have to say you, the 3cyl idel is on the CR trucks starting with 05 i belive, so your truck should theoretically have it

 

hmmm... got any info to back that up? There is no 3 cyl idle on the HPCR trucks, like I said its a VP44 thing... You can manually control the fast idle, could be what your thinking of, starting around 04.. this allows you to set the rpms from 1100-1500 using cruise control buttons, but this still fires all 6 cylinders.


Back to the 4BT...

 

Everything I've ever read says the 3 cyl high idle is a VP44 thing. I've never seen a video on youtube of it in a 3rd gen truck. Its known that the Smarty site has an error listing it as a 3rd gen thing. Someone even emailed MADS about a 3rd gen 3 cyl idle and they said it was a no.

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...=smarty+%2Acyl

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...4&postcount=38

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...6&postcount=43


http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...+cyl+high+idle

I'm just the messenger, not smoking anything either!