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Originally Posted by HunterDave
This article states that excessive idling can actually harm a Diesel engine. I think that it explains things very well. Recommended idling time for -0 degree temperatures is approximately 7 minutes and it won’t get any warmer sitting there idling with no load (ie. driving). According to this article idling excessively is just shooting your self in the foot. So yeah, ignorance probably plays a large part of it.....lol.
http://www.dieselhub.com/tech/warm-up-cool-down.html |
That's why there's elevated idle and high idle which puts it under load.
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