Idling clutch question?

anytime you keep the clutch pressed in. your burning up the throwout bearing. once it freezes up then it starts grinding on the pressure plate.

don't matter if it's a car or a semi. your burning up the clutch.

try holding the brake pedal down.

i had a freightliner dumptruck that would stay idling if the trailer valve was release. while the truck valve stayed in. the 5 minute idle was tied into the truck park valve.

i don't know what the tool is called. i haven't wrenched in 12 years so the name escapes me. call the auto parts stores and tell them you want the tool that holds the brake pedal down via the steering wheel. it's mainly used for alignments. it serves 2 purposes. the brakes are pressed. and the steering wheel is held from turning while doing the alignment.

used to be a cheap tool.

 

Ya know, I have been thinking about this. If holding the clutch down keeps the engine running so the A/C can work then, go for it. Who cares if the company does not like it, they do not like you for sure. Just pump a couple shots of grease into the throw out bearing once a day. The other thing that comes to mind is the only electrical sensor that has to do with the clutch pedal is right there under the dash. Just unplug, jump and you have done the same thing to the computer as holding the clutch down.

 

i had to do a pump off using the pto and the idle kept timing me out. i released the brakes after chokking the tires and it kept the moter running but the idle% did increase on my mo report in the long idle cat. in which i never had along idle before. my co uses peoplenet but i think qualcom would report the same. even if you managed to find a way to keep it running it would most likely show up on your report which would raise performance questions

40% idle time average? does this co ever put on any miles?

 

I had a truck once that wouldn't idle even doing that. It did idle above 65 F or so which was more than good enough for me. I was just curious to see if it'd work. Interestingly, flipping the range on the stick would reset the idle timer. You could also get it to idle if you pressed on the throttle just slightly to hit the switch but not actually apply throttle. The switch came first apparently.

 

...maybe you could take the summers and winters off....?

 

Drive for a company that cares about their drivers.

 

Our trucks with Cummins engines will shut down after 5 minutes unless you hit the accelerator when the time out warning comes on. It will do that regardless if the PTO is set on the cruise. Hit the accelerator and override the idle timer and it will run until the fuel is gone. The Volvo engine trucks have the same 5 minute timer. If you set the PTO on the cruise, it will idle indefinitely. Hitting the accelerator to override the timer only resets it, doesn't cancel it.

 

Just throwing this out there, but have you tried setting the cruise control. It works on my company truck.