Re: [ihc] diesel trucks

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two things to remember about letting the engine run.
1) If the bearings are already up and floating, you'll
do a lot more damage with a restart than with 30 min
of idling (assuming the thing won't overheat in 30 min
of idling).  Research indicates that 90% of all wear
inside an engine occurs during the startup cycle. 
Makes me wonder about the hybrid gas/electric cars
which shut their engines off at stop signs.

2) These diesels do not burn much fuel when idling,
really way less than a 3 litre gas engine.

For reason 1) I do frequently leave them running, even
with gas engines.  Especially if it really hot or
cold.  I really hate to turn off the A/C.

Steve


--- David Raistrick <keen@domain.elided> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Ted Borck wrote:
> 
> > Just had hurricane Charley miss me to the south by
> 30 (as the crow flies)
> > miles.  (Englewood, on the west coast of Florida)
> 
> We didn't get missed (north-northeast of Orlando in
> Geneva), but the house
> and the truck were spared.  Got the 4 "important"
> cars squeezed into the
> shop..  Lots of trees down.
> 
> 
> > Is there a *real* reason for this - or are these
> guys playing "big diesel
> > powered truck like the big rigs" drivers?
> 
> I drove a PowerStroke dually around town for a few
> days some years ago
> (just after the F1/250 body change but the F350
> still had the old body) to
> and from the shop I worked for.
> 
> I found it was /definitly/ possible to kill the
> batteries with a bunch of
> stop/starts (after 4 or so it was noticable) without
> much driving in
> between.
> 
> Beyond that, I bet they just wanted to keep the AC
> running! :)
> 
> 
> And for IHC content...the B-130 is fine, the shop
> didn't have anything
> land on it. ('66 VW Westy, '03 Mini Cooper S, the
> '60 B-130, and the '04
> Jetta Wagon were all in there)  Another tree fell on
> the tractor, but no
> damage this time.
> 
> The truck still has a random case of hicups...I
> drove it in to the office
> Sunday (after power was restored to the office.
> we'll be on the gen set at
> the house for a while) and all was fine.  But later
> when I had to drive in
> again, it seemed to be randomly starving for
> fuel...I turned it around and
> took it home.  It's done this a few times now.
> 
> Anyway.
> 
> Back to work.
> 
> 
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