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ClassikFan
 


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whether we believe Christians advice on 5w-40 or not I thinks they are two valid points made in the video to extend theirs of our engines.
1. Let the engine warm up before ' giving it the beans'
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2. Don't utilise max torque from low revs. Let the revs rise above 1500 on a gentle throttle before flooring it. Give the engine a chance to get oil pressure up before summoning the full 600nm it's capable of.
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Re the above, never understood why manufacturers suggest you can fire up from cold and go, they say so for trucks as well, but when you consider the size of the engine plus ancillary equipment, I and many I know, kept to the old school thought.

Treat it like a good woman, look after it, and it will look after you.

Athletes warm up and down after a race or game, why should a similar machine not be treated the same.


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its all the emission's crap bolted to modern diesels that don't like to be driven like miss daisy.
  
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That may be true, but what we're talking about, is on start up from cold.

Some of the best trucks I have driven or owned, had been really pushed hard in their early life, those that had been molly coddled lacked any grunt, used oil between services and were less fuel efficient.


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I agree with it being cold Thumbs Up
I'm still in the habit of letting it idle for a few minutes before i set off, and don't boot it until the heating blows warm. I also let it idle for a minute or so before turning it off, but this is just habit from other older motors, some of which had turbo timers fitted. (think they are technically illegal now)
  
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Ditto with regards to allowing the engine to warm up and idle on my first turbo’d engines , luckily my pops taught me how to service and repair my first motor ( triumph herald )

Then it progressed onto basic welding on some of my first series landies, lol, along with of course repairs after driving off road , plus putting a notice “ plse pass running in engine “

Sorry I’m waffling as per usual Whistle
   
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And yet here we are with the roads full of modern cars that don't have this care given to them and all still running along nicely.

Times change. Thumbs Up

(I should add that I still check the tyre pressures (increasing them if we're going to be running fully loaded, letting them back down when running normally), coolant, oil level, etc., before a longer journey. Just like my Dad did back in the day. Laughing )
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Finally found time to sit down and watch all of the video last night. All the factual stuff made complete sense so no problem there.

The opinion stuff is exactly that, an opinion. Could be argued for or against.
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Somehow I'd think it would be hard to win any arguement with Christian ....fairly sure of himself Laughing
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Indeed @ RRSTDV8 , to think 100,000 miles is nothing these days , use to have a caravan holiday every year down to Dorset , my pops always checked the Old Ford consul

However regardless it would still overheat going over the hogs back Laughing
   
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tanters wrote:
Somehow I'd think it would be hard to win any arguement with Christian ....fairly sure of himself Laughing


And in case someone feels still feels the urge to do so and has contrary knowledge he has the “safety” of a youtube channel, quite a “one way traffic” medium. Debates are literally a sideline exercise on such a channel Cool
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Brian Considine
 


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I have never thrashed a cold engine until it's been well up to working temperature.

I've always let turbo engines idle for a couple of minutes after hard driving before shutting down.

I used to drive HGV's for a well known supermarket who were very "penny wise/pound foolish" (the fact that they continued to buy DAF's was a good indication of that).

I did the same with their vehicles & was always being told off by the deskbound "driver trainers" for doing so because the vehicle telematics picked up "excessive idling".
They also insisted on accelerating/braking gently & never exceeding 2,000rpm (they also inhibited driver override on the auto gearboxes.

The guys in the workshop told me that they suffered from above average turbo failures & issues with engine management as well as brake pad/disc glazing. They also were of the opinion that drivetrains suffered due to engines being laboured.

Another company I worked for universally thrashed their trucks & apart from the six-weekly inspections & routine servicing rarely saw the inside of a workshop (then again, they were all Mercs & Scanias).

Trucks especially are designed to work hard.

Sorry to have gone a little off-topic.
  
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Trucks Diesels especially are designed to work hard
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