cummins isx extended idle

Never idle and engine that long. Yes, bump it up to 900 to 1100 or so.

 

Yeah, about that. Sounds familiar. I don't get into that too much.

 

Best investment I ever made in trucking. Remote start, you can get 14 hours on 3 gal of gas. $399 shipped to my door. Get a room AC unit (dual hose not single) and a little plug in heater from Walmart ($15). I carry a 6 gallon gas can in my headache rack and the generator in a side box now. I have an ISX and bump it up to about 750 rpm. That usually get the oil pressure up to about 30 lbs. I avoid idling like the no ones buissness. I have run a few weeks without my gen and I cost me about 1 mpg to idle for the week (1800 miles 6.68 down to 5.5) as opposed to less than 10 gal a week in gas 4 long nights a week.

 

Cord runs up to a twist lock plug with air hoses and light pigtail. It’s in a regular tarp box (24 x 60) can’t even hear it running. I have it bolted in the front left corner so it swings out to fuel up. No problems with DOT. I think you can haul 60 gal or something before it’s an issue? Of course it’s all out of site now but never even questioned when it was on the catwalk. I think it has to have a fuel shut off (it dose)in order to be compliant.

 

If I bought a brand new Truck I’d buy it with an APU. But I wasn’t going to spend $10k on an apu to put on my $10k Truck.

It stinks to have to carry gas at a truckstop but it’s good to get out and walk around?

People are having great success with the Honda 3000? They are about $1900 though.

I like mine has a remote start. So if I don’t run it but wake up and it’s cold I just hit the button and I’ll be warm in 2 min and I didn’t burn gas all night.

 

IIRC it's 8 gallons of gasoline in jerry cans if you don't have a tank on the frame rail same as your diesel for it. Before dot can do anything about it.

Idling that much excessively will severely shorten the life of your engine. With mine and it's emission stuff intact i figure it burns about 1.5 per hour. No fuel needed for dpf probably closer to 1.0 per hour. There are lots of threads for alternate air conditioning systems on here and homemade setups.