Posted by trucker 40 on November 16, 2010 at 07:37:57 from (70.240.148.157):
In Reply to: OT. Ideling a diesel posted by JayinNY on November 15, 2010 at 18:28:37:
The worst thing about idling a diesel that I can think of is that when its idling it doesnt have a lot of oil pressure in most cases.Then the top of the engine might not be getting oiled good,so it wears on the top engine parts.Also when its cold the oil doesnt run back down as fast and especially the turbo has oil built up around it,possibly seeping into the cylinders and causing a lot of smoke when you wind it up again,and also soot builds up on the valves and on top of the pistons.On an old Cummins thats idled all night there will be a trail of oil coming off of the turbo usually and even out of the exhaust manifold.As this oil gets hot and burns it can sometimes burn the exhaust manifold gaskets out. If you drive a truck over the road,and if you park somewhere in the hot summer or cold winter you will idle it.You cant afford the fuel to rev it up all night.The idle laws are ridiculous.I bet if the people who made the idle laws had to sleep outside in 20 below zero weather there wouldnt be any anti idle laws.Or for that matter when its 90 degrees at night and no air conditioner.Same thing.They do have power packs,but one of those thats wore out will smoke bad too. There is probably not going to be any stopping of idling trucks,especially while the economy is bad.They will be lucky to get trucks to bring stuff the way things are now. A lot of stuff put out by people about trucks is to make it harder on them so bigger and bigger companies get more and more business as they run small companies out.If they could get people to drive a truck with no cab on it,they would.The only reason they have sleepers and AC and a heater is to keep people driving them.The crooks dont care if they live or die,they just want them to drive like a slave.
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