I get in, put the seat belt on and push the button. Within a few seconds the truck is in reverse. Shutting of is basically stopping the truck and cutting the engine off. On frosty mornings I might let it warm up, but probably not. Scrape and go.....

 

Same minus the frosty mornings.

 

I almost always remote start but the delay is maybe 1 to 5 minutes before I'm in the truck and driving. Shut off is immediate upon arrival.

 

Ditto

 

I never warm up the engine. But I live on a slight hill. So every time I leave my house it's almost coasting at an idle for a minute before I have to start stepping on the gas. Then when I get home I just shut it off.

 

I'm still old school and even though it's not necessary on our trucks, I still put the key in, turn it to the on position, wait a second or two "to let the fuel pump prime" and then start it. It's just been habit for many years. LOL

 

I do the same thing, but for a different reason. I'am usually waiting for the glow plugs to warm up before starting - Old habits take a long time to fade away.

 

I like to remote start mine for a couple minutes at least. Sometimes it idles for 10 minutes but I don't like to do that for too long. Once I get in it, put my seat belt on and put it in drive, I like to coast out of my driveway or be easy on the gas for the first few miles until the transmission is nice and warm. After that it's drive it like I stole it time

As far as when I shut it down, depending on how long I was driving for or how hard I drove it depends on how long I let it idle before I shut it down. A normal trip to work through traffic will get a shut down almost immediately once I get to work. If it was a very long trip or I was hard on it before I got to my destination, I let it idle for a couple minutes to about 5 minutes before I shut it down.

I'm pretty sure the designs of the cooling system and oil system allows for coolant and oil to continue to flow a little once shut down, but it's better safe than sorry in my book.

 

I let mine get through the high idle and that's about it. Then I drive it normally but won't get on it until operating temps are reached


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I let mine get through the high idle and that's about it. Then I drive it normally but won't get on it until operating temps are reached

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Remote start just before i put my shoes on in the garage (truck sits outside in front of garage).

If it's below freezing i remote start when i put the coffee on (about 10min before i leave).

Shutdown is instantaneous, i live in a busy area so im usually doing the speed limit for a few blocks before parking.

 

Start: Get in truck, buckle up, confirm radio and fans are off. Turn key to on, listen for pump to prime, watch the gauges cycle. Then start.
Shutdown: Turn off everything, lights, radio, AC, etc... Sit for a couple seconds and shutdown. I've heard that it's good to turn AC off a few miles before home and let warmer airflow dry everything off. Haven't done that much to be honest.

 

I get in, push button, seat belt goes on, place it in drive and go. I have 4 miles of road before I get to the freeway.

Arrive at destination, remove seat belt, push button, get out and go.

No warm up or warm down on the daily starts. Now if it has sat for more than 3-4 days, I will give it a minute or so.

 

Minimum of 30 seconds of idling on start-up/shut-down.

I usually start driving very easy and coating if at all possible before I park too.

If I'm towing, the truck idles until EGT's are down around 800*

 

Startup first thing in the morning: Summer, I let it idle for about 30 seconds. Winter, about 90 seconds. I then "slowly drive up a hill" on my way to work, and by the time I hit the top, my coolant is fully warmed up.

During the day, about 30 seconds as I adjust the mirror, etc.

Shutdown: I have a few minutes of slow driving home, usually stop to get the mail at the mail box (another minute or two) and I usually back into my driveway. I listen for a few moments as my turbo whistle slows down and then shut off.

 

I'm kind of ole school as well...not sure if the electronics handles all the bells in whistles during start-up or shutdown:

- 5 sec key on before starting (for the fuel pump priming)
- 30 sec for idle to let the oil circulate
- turn the fan off before shutdown


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start truck, wait till oil pressure gauge actually reads good before i put it in gear.
i never shut the truck down right away if i've been driving it hard. i like to take it easy for a minute or two letting the oil cool down and circulate through the turbos.

this is probably unnecessary as they're supposed to do that with the truck off but i dont trust new technology.

 

That problem was solved (to a degree) when they figured out how to make oil and water cooled bearings.

The old oil cooled journal bearings are what you would have had to do that cycle with.

 

Startup: I let it warm up until the IAC brings Rs down before driving. I put the trans in neutral to warm it up especially during the colder months and drive it easy until everything comes up to good temp.

Shutdown: I let it cool the turbos down with 10 seconds or so of idle time after having driven about 1000' through the neighborhood at around 20 MPH.

 

New school here, start, drive, stop, turn off.

Old school: push accelerator to floor to set choke, push again for a little extra squirt from the accelerator pump if really cold out, crank, repeat if necessary. Oops flooded it, pedal to the floor and hold, crank. Wait until engine responds smoothly to accelerator, carefull with the clutch, keep engine speed up with a few flutters of the skinny pedal, drive, shut down, pump the pedal a time ar two in preparation for the next cold start. Remote start was accomplished by plugging the block or lower radiator hose heater into an inside switched outlet, I used the porch light, and turning it on when I got up.

neoauto era: pull out choke knob, pump accelerator, turn key or switch to on, engage starter with right foot, clutch pedal depressed with left foot, hope the parking brake holds, offer the proper litany of encouragement often accompanied by threats and expletives, flutter accelerator as engine pops and farts, start easing choke in, drive off with choke partially on, push choke to off in increments slowly as engine warms.

No experience with winter starting of pre-self comensers, hand starting the B John Deere was hard enough in cool temps and required equal amounts of physical and verbal effort pulling the flywheel over and repeating a specific litany of encouragement and swear words similar to the hand choke neoauto era but specific to the B as repeated by my grampa Frank. Once started it would not stop until the day was over. Procedure was: open throttle slightly with lever by steering wheel, wiggle gear shift between the gates to assure its in neutral, pull hand clutch back until it snaps into the disengaged position, open right and left side petcock compression releases on each of the two horizontal 70 cubic inch displacement cylinders, turn on the gas (small tank if using distillate), set choke on carburetor to the amount of closure you think is appropriate, pull flywheel over, encourage, pull flywheel over, encourage, pull flywheel over, spit Red Man juice, cuss, pull flywheel over, encourage as the engine starts with pops and spits, fiddle with choke to keep it running, add words of praise, close spitting petcocks, listen to rpm rise and fall hoping that the big flywheel has enough momentum to keep the engine revolving until a cylinder fires, fiddle with choke until it fires regularly, set choke to off, let warm thoroughly, once hot switch to distillate (large tank) adjust two knobs on carb for distillate, Shutdown: switch distillate off, gas on, run until carb bowl has gas only, or stop and drain carb bowl, push throttle fully forward, turn gas off, wait while the big flywheel loses all kinetic energy, return carb knobs to original position. (I'm guessing on the distillate as grampa Frank didn't like the way the B ran on it and only used it once or twice, the big tank was always filled with gas and the little tank left to rust).

 

If you run good oil you don't need to worry about anything. Our turbos don't need idling either because of factory cooling. The only thing i do is put in N, park brake, then park.

 

Not unless it's really cold outside. No need to wait fuel on extra idle time. Although I do let it idle for a couple minute after I get in and start it.