Ht3b or bht3b

[Swayse]

What's the difference. Getting ready to do twins, bought a used PDR twin kit without the turbos. Thought I'd get a new Hx40 or a good used PDR40 and a ht3b or bht3b, not sure what the PDR kit comes with.

 

[Swayse]

It looks like I need to run a ht3b. Judging by pictures and stuff.

 

[RonA]

I believe the one I got with my PDR kit has Bht3b on the tag.

Ron

 

[Forrest Nearing]

bht3b has the MWE compressor housing. the parts interchange

 

[Swayse]

Got a good used PDR40 on the way. Now I just need the big turbo. Think I'll just buy a PDRht3b and call it good. I wanted to save a little dough, but I htturbos jump the price of the bht3b on me. There is less than $100 difference in the price now between pdr and htturbos.

 

[Lucas5477]

Just got a stock HT3B off of ebay for 247. 00 shipped to my door. It has the 26 exhaust on it. That's what I will be using.



Lucas

 

[Bob Wagner]

there is a brand new one in the tdr classifieds too

 

[Swayse]

Man, I saw those on ebay, I was about to bid on it. I emailed him and asked him about the exhaust housing size, never got an answer. I searched ebay this morning, I couldn't find any now.



I'll check out the one in the classifieds, that's where I seem to buy everything anyway. I want one with 26 exhaust housing.



Thanks guys.

 

[Bob Wagner]

the one in the classified has the 23 *edited*

 

[TORQUE THIS]

The one I have listed is a 23

 

[RonA]

Swayse,

Did you ever figure out the USB. Last time I heard you thought there might be a problem with the wastegate.

Ron

 

[TORQUE THIS]

the one in the classified has the 23 *edited*

:-laf :-laf :-laf

 

[Swayse]

Swayse,

Did you ever figure out the USB. Last time I heard you thought there might be a problem with the wastegate.

Ron

I looked at the waste gate and it was fine. My truck made 50 psi with it and it was still slow and ran real hot. I knew I needed to oring the head so I could mess with the timing and maybe some water injection to cool things down. Looked at my money pit, and thought it would be a great idea to sell the truck and get out of hot rodding diesels. Then I thought I would just sell the hot rod parts and just use it for a work truck. So I sold the turbo, injectors, DVs, and my nos kit(never wanted a bottle baby anyway)... . Now I'm back and spending more money than ever. Told the wife I would sell my KX250 to offset the cost.



Sorry I never emailed you after checking it, that wasn't very nice of me. I forgot.



I'm going with Jeff Prince injectors, and let him do my pump tuning. He is awesome with the 180 pump.

 

[RonA]

Thanks for letting me know. I am sorry it didn't work out for you. It was a poor turbo for me also. Same symptoms. I figured it was just my truck being weird. Hope you didn't loose as much money on it as I did. I have a Dodgezilla top turbo on my setup. It works ok. I can make alot of boost, but the hp is still kind of low. I think I will eventually get an hx40 and put it on top. Good luck with your project. I have talked to Jeff a few times. Wish I lived back that direction. Seems like alot of great places to get parts and help. West coast is alot harder. Pdr is great, but way north of me.

RonA

 

[Swayse]

I didn't loose much on the turbo. I had made a pretty good down pipe, I thought anyway, that I threw in, and I paid for shipping. My plan was to spray a bunch of nos into my motor to get it to work. Found out that I don't like the stuff.



I'm real excited about my truck now again. I always liked the idea of twins, just didn't want to spend the money. If I would have done twins in the first place, I would be money ahead. I'm buying used stuff where I can, and doing a lot of price shopping. I'm gonna see if I can get started on it in a month or so and take my time.



Thanks Ron. I'm glad you got your truck up and going, sounds like a really cool set up. Maybe we'll meet up at a diesel get together, I'd like to talk to you some more and check out your truck.

 

[RonA]

If you bought a used kit minus turbos, you shouldn't need much. Probably won't take more than 2 or three days to do. The part that took the most time on mine were the oil return lines. The only part I could use was the flange. After I got done I bought a small bender. If I had done that in the beginning, it would have been a piece of cake.

Ron

 

[Swayse]

My ats manifold is cracked, so I need to send that off to see if warranty will cover it. I need to oring the head and might get the head ports polished and a valve job if it needs it. And my intercooler is leaking, need to take that off and have it fixed. Oil pan gasket is leaking alittle, I hate leaks. Lots of little stuff to do on it. I'm guessing my truck will be down for a few weeks. I love working on it, just not non stop.