How can I keep this #### truck runing (idling)

Be cheaper to lay a brick on the gas pedal.
I used to do what @No germs did, but that was with an older truck.

 

I had a lady driver tell me she used a lighter to briefly heat the tip of the temperature sensor. This worked until the tractor was shut off by her.

The trick is to locate and identify this elusive temp sensor thingy.

Good night and good luck.

 

If I don't get my beauty sleep, I get ugly.

 

My last tractor was a Prostar. Before that, I had a Volvo. That Volvo had an APU and all was well, most of the time. One day in Wyoming it was cold out, wind blowing horrible day. It was the day my APU gave up the ghost. I sure tried to sleep, but after about 2 hours sleep was not coming. Just so happened there was a flophouse close by. I was lucky enough to get in a room next to a nice young lady who was praying. I know this because she kept saying "oh God".

 

Take a stick roughly a foot and a half long. Put one end on the fuel pedal and wedge the other side somewhere where it will stay. You have to have the perfect length stick to just be able to have enough pressure on the fuel pedal to bump up the idle just above normal. I have a Volvo that shuts down after 3 minutes. It will idle perfectly now. But I only use it if I’m bobtailing. You can just release the tractor brakes if you are hooked to a trailer

 

When i had a 2015 cascadia theres a bypass engine shutdown button , click that when the stop engine lights flash, sometimes u have to press it once when the lights flash and another to bypass or it will keep cycling... If that doesnt work try setting the cruise...depends on what ur company has set up in the ecm.... My 2016 cascadia only will idle if i set cruise .. Company disabled high idle, sucked when i was in minnesota when it -60 wind chill , couldnt keep any engine heat had to get up every 30 mins to rev it up for 15 minutes then go back to sleep... U could try the brick on the pedal but if the rpms arent fluctuating then the ecm will shutdown engine .. Try everything thats mentioned in this thread if none of it works then find a different company to work for

 

Thats a good one too, i heard of guys putting hand warmers on those sensors also