Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Noise Complaints

[bighammer]

Drive it easy the last mile home. As long as you aren't all uphill home, or pulling a big trailer home, you are probably cool enough to shut down when you get there. Cooldown idle is more for shutdown in hot weather after a long pull on the e-way, running with a load, after a long up-hill, etc.



It doesn't sound like you need to waste your time or fuel idling when you get home, say from work. The neighbors will apreciate it too.

 

[RustyJC]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I live in a nice neighborhood and have good neighbors. One reason for that is that I try to be as considerate of them as I can. My driveway is below one neighbor's bedroom window; therefore, I try not to pull the truck out of the garage early Saturday morning and do a lot of idling in the driveway. Same thing applies late at night - I'll run it easy for a few blocks before I get home and run it straight into the garage. When I do, pre-turbo EGT is normally 200 or 250 degF, and I can go ahead and shut it down.



Flame away if you wish, but I don't appreciate being awakened in the middle of the night by a subwoofer, a Harley or even a Cummins. Because of this, I try to show my neighbors the same consideration.



Rusty

 

[me4osu]

My closest neighbor (~400 yds) has a 2x4 3500 CTD. No problem there. ALso, Almost every CTD that goes down the little Farm to Market road past my place is straight piped. Music to my ears.



However, last year I had just finished some field work in Stinnett, TX when my boss wanted me to go check vibration on a customer owned compressor near Glenwood Springs, CO. So, I drive up there, check in to the Best Value inn, get something to eat and go to the room about 20:00. As I am backing in to my parking spot (not revving the engine), i see in the mirror, some guy open his door and yell at me to "turn that dam thing off".



I decided to knock on his door and ask him what his problem was. I knocked, no answer. So, I pounded on the door twice, and in a wierd tone of voice the guy yells "leave me the f alone!!". I finally got the picture that this guy was a couple bricks short of a pallet and left him alone before he started shooting.

 

[mcoleman]

Just about eveyone in my area has their Cummins straight piped. And I live on a big hill or mountain as they call it around here so I get to hear them all as they climb it in the evenings. There are a couple of straight piped PSD's also but that is noise pollution. Those things sound horrible. My only neighbor within several miles is my brother-in-law. Noise isn't an issue.