Idling
Laughing Gas
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From: North Pole Alaska
Matty, Dude,
I live in Alaska and I don't idle mine for more than 5 minutes. I will hit the auto start and let it run long enough to get her juices flowing. Then I get out and drive.
I live in Alaska and I don't idle mine for more than 5 minutes. I will hit the auto start and let it run long enough to get her juices flowing. Then I get out and drive.
Originally Posted by MattyNJ
...I hear ya! just that I went out the other morn. and all my gas was gone!!! I had an 1/8 of a tank and almost ran out just from idleing for 20 min or so....
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Check out a couple of posts on this page. There are some good ones about idling our engines.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...sleep+in+cabin
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...sleep+in+cabin
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Originally Posted by littledre1
Check out a couple of posts on th,is page. There are some good ones about idling our engines.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...sleep+in+cabin
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...sleep+in+cabin
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From: New Jersey
Originally Posted by MattyNJ
That thread still raises questions such as WHAT IF you do sleep in your truck frequently idleing the engine for heat, your hurting the engine?????
"Although, if you have a DP tuner, Jody will tell you that if you plan to have extended idle times, he does suggest to run it in high idle."
Jody knows alot about these trucks and I trust his opinion. When I get the DP tuner someday "high idle" will be an option and I'll use it whenever I idle the truck.
I wonder if there's a difference between idling the 7.3 and 6.0 for extended periods of time at "low idle"??
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another ol tale that wont die.you need to work your diesel now and then. not true, they love to just run along for their entire life. working them just to work them just wears them out sooner ike any engine. after nowning my own big rigs for near 40 years, i never saw a turbo cleaned, ever. and i sure rn my engines for thousands of hours at idle ,,hell i lived in the truck. at down to 55 below 0, its idle it or freeze to death!!,,hehe,,,and that tubo on my 600 ncummins kta went 1,400,000 miles without "cleaning"
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Originally Posted by oltrucker
another ol tale that wont die.you need to work your diesel now and then. not true, they love to just run along for their entire life. working them just to work them just wears them out sooner ike any engine. after nowning my own big rigs for near 40 years, i never saw a turbo cleaned, ever. and i sure rn my engines for thousands of hours at idle ,,hell i lived in the truck. at down to 55 below 0, its idle it or freeze to death!!,,hehe,,,and that tubo on my 600 ncummins kta went 1,400,000 miles without "cleaning"
Its not the relatively trouble free component that it once was. Beginning about 2003 we were introduced to the variable pitch turbo and things just havn't been the same since.
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Guess I'll keep my trouble free 97 7.3L that idles for 8 to 10 hrs at a time on occasion.
I only have 379,000+ miles on it so far and am going to be mad when it craps out early in it's lifespan.
Or... is it that I use dino oil and change at 10,000 mile intervals ?
Which is going to kill my engine prematurely first ?
I only have 379,000+ miles on it so far and am going to be mad when it craps out early in it's lifespan.
Or... is it that I use dino oil and change at 10,000 mile intervals ?
Which is going to kill my engine prematurely first ?
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From: North Pole Alaska
The truck I use at work here in Alaska (I'm a cop) idles ALOT. Probably more than any of you.
just recently I have been hearing a popping noise under acceleration, when I'm in 3rd or 4th gear. Sounds almost like a gasser would if it were backfireing back up through the carberator. its an 05 6.0 PSD. It also has a build up in the exhaust pipe of what I believe is carbon. Black and bumpy like Rhino liner.
All symptoms go away after it has been run HARD for a while. But last winter when it did this it blew apart the charge air cooler hose to pieces when I really needed the truck to run.
it was -50'F last week here and You can't shut it off if you want it to run that cold.
just recently I have been hearing a popping noise under acceleration, when I'm in 3rd or 4th gear. Sounds almost like a gasser would if it were backfireing back up through the carberator. its an 05 6.0 PSD. It also has a build up in the exhaust pipe of what I believe is carbon. Black and bumpy like Rhino liner.
All symptoms go away after it has been run HARD for a while. But last winter when it did this it blew apart the charge air cooler hose to pieces when I really needed the truck to run.
it was -50'F last week here and You can't shut it off if you want it to run that cold.
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