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holstein13
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Sep 04, 2015

Base Idle, Fast Idle, Non Idle - Best Practices Diesel

What are best practices for idling and what are the theories behind them. For example, I never use my base idle speed unless I'm in traffic or at a red light. Otherwise, I'll high idle (1,000 RPMs) ...
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obgraham
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Sep 12, 2015
WILDEBILL308 wrote:
obgraham, Please keep your comments relevant to the OPs question. If you want to make snarky comments about how loud and terribly annoying big coaches are, please start a new thread.
Bill
Okay, Bill. Since you're in charge of what we say here, I'll go along.

However, the effect on others is an important part of the discussion about idling diesel RVs.

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