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Re: Idle vs. Shutdown
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Posted by JDknut on August 24, 2006 at 03:40:54 from (152.119.204.78):
In Reply to: Re: Idle vs. Shutdown posted by MarkB_MI on August 24, 2006 at 03:32:14:
Engine temperature is the operative concept. If the engine can idle and maintain a high enough temp then there will not be as much carboning up and other damage. A lot of fleet operaters have a do-not-idle-more-than-five muinutes policy, and a lot of the truck computers even monitor idle time to rat out drivers that violate the policy. Even famous author John Steinbeck even weighed in on Diesel engine idling policy in "The Grapes of Wrath", when describing the Caterpillar tractors that tore down the poor Oklahoma farmer's houses, the drivers would keep them running while they had lunch because it took less fuel to keep them running "..than to heat the Diesel nose for a fresh start."
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