Air Ride dually finally here!

[NWatchel]

It is so much worse for the engine to do that thou. Anything over 10 minutes is considered excessive by Cummins and not recommended, at most 3-5 minutes is all Cummins wants. It's cold, but use a block heater and save the wear and tear and wasted diesel $$.

With the way dealerships have been treating idle time on the 6.7 it's not worth it for warranty purposes either.

Around 100 minutes of block heater operation with a winter front is adequate, even on 0°F and colder days to get the block above 80°F.



Too much money for me.

While $1.50/day doesn't sound like much it would have been a 67% increase in my power consumption last month to have the truck plugged in 24/7.

At anything under minus 20C I find that the windows will fog up or the frost is not even close to being melted off the windshield(-45C rated windshield fluid just sits on the frost) . Seeing where you are going justifies the idle time. I don't like it either, but sometimes there is no choice.

 

[DGamelin]

(Clynider wash out) is what you are trying to avoid by not letting it idle to long. At idle, it doesn't burn hot enough and you can end up washing unburnt fuel down the cylinders removeing oil from the rings, and carbon up the injector tips. The colder the out side air the cooler the cylinders. Excessive idle can do a cummins in.