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Injection Limiter adjustment
wrote in message ... On Mar 24, 9:30 am, "Edgar" wrote: Warming up a diesel for 10 minutes is unnecessarily long and does no good. Give them a couple of minutes to make sure everything is working and then leave the dock and get some load on. Prolonged idling from cold causes a lot of wear. Help me out, how does it cause wear? Sure, I don't know squat about engines but it from book learning and a tiny bit of expericene: Assuming that the oil is of a suitable weight it should work just fine at idle. The manual requires racing the engine periodically if running at low speeds for over 2 hours but requires not less than 5 minutes of warm up before _any_ load is applied. Letting the oil splash about and passing it through the filter once or twice before things get really hot seems like a good thing to me. The motor is a bigish chunk of metal and gaskets and spings and such and heating it up fast must cause stress. I've had the exhaust elbows off both engines twice and there was no evidence of unusual coking. FWIW, I generally push the idle speed up during the warm up and have some alternator load so the motors aren't likely to be running way under temp anyway. -- Tom. When the cylinder walls are cold acidic combustion products stay on the cylinder wall instead of leaving as vapours with the exhaust gases and this leads to increased wear. Maximum wear occurs near top dead centre when the piston is slowing and reversing its motion because this is the area where there is least oil film and the slow motion of the piston rings does not prevent some metal to metal contact. Lower down the cylinder the piston rings are riding on an oil film and wear is much lower. Idling for 5 minutes is not as good for warming up the engine as getting some load on within, say, 2 minutes. The bit about 'racing' the engine after prolonged idling is to get some fuel through the injectors as the flow at idling is so small that the fuel in the injector can start to polymerise and clog the holes in the nozzle. Here again running at speed with some load on is better than 'racing' the engine if by racing you mean running up to full speed on no load. I accept that your alternator will provide some load but whether this is enough to be effective depends on the size of the alternator relative to the power of the engine and whether the alternator finds a battery that is already fully charged or one that is low and needs some charge. |
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Injection Limiter adjustment
On Mar 24, 12:19 pm, "Edgar" wrote:
When the cylinder walls are cold acidic combustion products stay on the cylinder wall instead of leaving as vapours with the exhaust gases and this leads to increased wear. This I did not know. Idling for 5 minutes is not as good for warming up the engine as getting some load on within, say, 2 minutes. The manual is pretty specific. I wonder if there is a trade off that depends somewhat on the engine involved. The bit about 'racing' the engine after prolonged idling is to get some fuel through the injectors as the flow at idling is so small that the fuel in the injector can start to polymerise and clog the holes in the nozzle. "This is done to clean out carbon from the cylinder and the fuel injection valve." Is what they say and I think that means what you said. Thanks, -- Tom. |
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