Me thinks this guy runs on three cylinders. <br><br>The only thing that ran on three that I had was my Kawasaki triple two stroke. Now that was one &quot;runnin'&quot; machine. Wow, that thing was fast - - almost as fast as my Cummins. ;D<br><br>ThreeStrokeBob

 

Fiver,

I have one of those Nipponese Tractors that runs on 3 cylinders, only has three cylinders. Called a Ferd/New Holland, others like it called Kubota, John Deere. One half of a 6 cyl.

If for cold starting they may over fuel and thereby increase inner cyl temp. That would cause the sound to be diffrerent.

 

You seem to know quite bit about synthetic oil. I just changed the rear diff oil to synthetic and now I get a slipage noise turning left or right. Took it back to the dealer and he added an additive to reduce the noise. Should I change back to regular oil? 1999 3/4 24V.

 

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You seem to know quite bit about synthetic oil. I just changed the rear diff oil to synthetic and now I get a slipage noise turning left or right. Took it back to the dealer and he added an additive to reduce the noise. Should I change back to regular oil? 1999 3/4 24V.
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Hey Poogan, first post. Let me be first to welcome you to the site. Great place to hang around.

No, stick to synthetic and use the additive. Just takes a little bit - - dealer should know how much to add. It seems the 2003 does not need the additive, but the older ones did.

Bob

 

[quote author=Sierra Phil link=board=17;threadid=7547;start=0#73145 date=1038430113]<br>A warm up higher idle speed during warm up I can believe? <br>[/quote]<br><br> ;D On the 02 and down, this is indeed the way the high idle feature worked. It would gradually begin dropping cylinders until the truck was idling at about 1100 RPM on 3 cylinders. It did work to keep cylinder heat up, but the truck sounded like someone had punched holes in all the pistons. I hated it.<br><br>The 03, or at least mine, simply has a high idle to 1000 RPM that kicks in on start up. All the cylinders are still firing, AFAIK.<br><br>Rod

 

<br>Bob, thanks for the reply, I'll stick with the synthetic<br><br>Ed