Warm up times with pacbrake

[CIverson]

I've got a friend that installed a packbrake on his truck along with a remote starter. So it would warm up for him in the morning, but the truck dosen't seem to warm up much better than it did before the brake install. You can tell the brake is engaging and disengages at around 170 -180, but it only get's this hot if your driving it.



Is this normal? From things I've read on the board I imagined the would warm up pretty quickly w/ a brake installed. Or maybe something is wrong that it's not warming up fast.

 

[SRadke]

In approx 30° weather with my brake on and the truck doing the 1000 rpm idle it will warm up to what looks like 150° on the gauge in 10 minutes. I usually only let it idle for about 5 minutes at which point it has hardly left the peg. The water is warm enough to that the windows and make a comfortable drive it just doesn't show on the gauge. To get it to 180 idleing would take quite a while and in unnecessary IMHO.



-Scott

 

[CIverson]

He was at my camp the other evening and it was about 35-38 deg. (too warm for the fast idle) and let it idle for about 20 minutes and it had just barely moved on the peg. Which seems normal from your experience.

 

[SRadke]

The 1000 rpm idle cuts warm up time about in half with the brake on. Not sure without. I would say we're in the same boat.



-Scott