If you must idle them then it is best to run the RPM up to maintain coolant temps and combustion chamber temps . As a diesel engine will cool way down when idling to the point of incomplete fuel burn and this leads to carbon build up and cylinder wall washing along with oil contamination . In days gone by for us that ran semi's on the road when winter set in and ya needed sleep before you fell across the steering wheel of fell in to the old bunk house you set the hand throttle to find the sweet spot where the engine smoothed out and would not rattle your filling out , this would do two things (1) it made for a good nights sleep and (2) kept the engine temp at of slightly above 180 degrees along with full oil pressure . Old Detroit's would drop oil pressure way down at idle but off idle they would hold around 40 psi. One could always tell when someone did not keep there engine speed up and temps up come morning when they went to pull out as they would blow white smoke for miles burning off excess fuel and oil build up . You could also tell where the cold running detroit spent the night due to the huge puddle of oil and excess fuel was layen
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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