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Lew Hodgett Lew Hodgett is offline
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Default How Hot should an alternator get?

Larry wrote:

This only applies if you're going to leave your engine idle for

HOURS, not
minutes.....sheez. Go to any rest area and walk around the sleeping
truckers. See how many of them have the engine idling at 1400 RPM to
prevent "wet stacking" with the heat or air conditioning running

all night
while they sleep it off. What? None of them?! Hmm......


Sounds like you need to get your ears recalibrated.

In Alaska, it's so cold in winter they never shut them

off.....well, maybe
will now that fuel oil is headed for $10/gallon....


My father never shut his truck off except for oil changes from
November to April, and he was a long way from Alaska.

Lew