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Sticking turbos, sticky injectors, fuel degradation, moisture build up in cylinders and fuel. Gaskets drying up and cracking, premature wear in other components from running dry at start up.
Some can happen to a gas too, but the engine will handle it better.
How so? There are lots of documented problems with incomplete warmups and the engine never getting up to temperature, but I don't recall ever hearing of someone who damaged an engine by letting it sit. The OP runs his truck hard when it runs, and it's sitting when it's not. Moisture accumulation isn't going to happen to any appreciable level unless there is a change in airflow; this is primarily a problem with frequent short trips without ever warming it up.
Can you find me a story of a sticky turbo or injector from sitting?
I've got multiple tickets for it in the shop computer. I've got multiple turbos on the shelf pitted like mad from a fleet the had spare trucks sitting.
But what do I know, I just work on them everyday...
How so? There are lots of documented problems with incomplete warmups and the engine never getting up to temperature, but I don't recall ever hearing of someone who damaged an engine by letting it sit. The OP runs his truck hard when it runs, and it's sitting when it's not. Moisture accumulation isn't going to happen to any appreciable level unless there is a change in airflow; this is primarily a problem with frequent short trips without ever warming it up.
Can you find me a story of a sticky turbo or injector from sitting?
Maybe if you live in Arizona or such, but other than a dry zone items don't need to move to rust, inside or out. High moisture content air finds it way into everything and it leaves slower than if appears, especially if temperature fluctuations go along with the humidity.
07-16-2015, 03:23 PM
