Lugging...
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Lugging...
OK, I have a question. I have a 5-speed manual ranger, and I keep hearing about how bad lugging is, and the damage it does to your engine/drive-train. I understand the possible damage done to the engine mounts caused by the vibration, and I also understand that you have virtually no power when lugging. What I do not understand is exactly what about lugging hurts your engine? What exactly makes it bad/damaging? Thank you for any answers in advance!
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From: Durant, OK (SOSU)
Low RPM/power with lots of throttle, pumping lots of gas into an engine that can't really use it because it's at such a low RPM. Basically it's just putting a lot of stress on the engine, because the engine is trying to move X amount of weight. Shifting at a certain RPM to a certain gear will net you a certain amount of horsepower and torque output. When you shift very low, you have little horsepower and torque at your disposal, so you give the engine more gas to try and compensate, so you're running at a high throttle, low RPM, low power setting, which is hard on the engine. Hope that made some sort of sense.
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yeah, that did make sense... in the back of my mind i thought there might be some very specific thing that was hurt, but what you said makes a lot of sense... i guess i will just have to try and keep the rpms up! thanks for answering!
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