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Incorrect Ways To Maintain Diesel Engine

Since the cost of replacing the diesel engine in your pickup is about the same as buying a new car from the dealership—it’s important to keep it alive as long as possible. Although almost everyone thinks of themselves as diesel experts, bad maintenance and usage practices abound. We know this because these easy-to-fix mistakes are keeping diesel shops very busy across the country. We’ve made a list of the top 10 deadly sins, which are damning far too many diesels to an early demise.

1. You’re Not Changing Your Fuel Filter

A clogged fuel filter can damage expensive injection pumps and injectors. Diesel fuel injection systems create a great deal of heat, and they rely on unobstructed fuel flow to keep the pump and injectors cool. As the fuel filter plugs up, the flow of fuel is restricted. In extreme cases, this extra pressure can cause a filter failure, which sends contamination directly into the injection system.

2. You’re Not Changing Your Air Filter

When the air filter gets clogged, fuel economy begins to suffer. A clogged air filter also causes the turbo to spin faster as it attempts to supply the engine with air. If dirt gets past the air filter because it was not installed properly or there is a leak in a boot—severe turbo, valve, and piston engine damage can occur in minutes. Driving down a gravel road may be all it takes to scour the cylinder walls.

Changing your in-cab air filter on a regular basis will make your fan motor live longer and keep your hard-to-clean air ducts less dusty. This will make you want to keep your truck alive longer.

3. You’re Not Changing Your Oil

Oil filters are important because they remove contaminants found in the oil. Oil analysis laboratories examine samples of oil from diesel engines and can determine a motor’s health without performing major surgery. The tests include a spectral exam that establishes the amount of wear metals in the oil, which indicates the level of bearing failure or other mechanical problems. Silica (dirt) is by far the biggest factor in engine wear and intrudes past seals and filters. As it combines with carbon, silica forms an abrasive called carborundum, which is similar in hardness to diamonds.

Silicone is an oil additive and anti-foaming agent also measured by the labs. From this information, you’ll be able to see how far you can extend your oil change. Coolant in the oil can indicate a major engine problem—some say glycol is the number one engine killer. The flashpoint of the oil is also typically tested. This information will tell you if you have fuel in the oil, which also accelerates engine failure.

4. You’re Forgetting to Mind Your Fluids

It’s important to change your engine oil, coolant, transmission fluid, and power steering fluid. One look inside the valvebody of a modern automatic transmission reveals the precision internals that need clean fluid in order to operate properly. Not adding a bypass engine and transmission oil filter to your engine isn’t murder, but it could be considered neglect. These devices work by screening the fluid down to 3 microns or less—that fine filtering would clog a full-flow filter. They can do this by only taking a small amount of oil at a time—so as not to affect normal flow. Installing a coolant filter is like giving your truck a liver or a kidney. Although the initial expense hurts—your truck will pay you back. Bad coolant will clog passages, which will cause overheated parts.

5. You’re not Letting Your Engine Warm Up

Don’t be that guy who starts his cold engine and immediately revs it up. The only thing you’re showing off is that you don’t know your turbo and engine bearings won’t get lubricated properly with cold, thick oil. Let your engine warm up like you warm up in the morning. Let the glow plugs and intake heater do their job. Fire the engine and give it some time for the combustion heat to warm the engine evenly.

This practice is very important on extremely cold mornings. Hot and cold engine parts expand at different rates, so gaps can form, which could cause leaks or gasket failures. Wait until your engine oil and coolant temperature gauges show you are in the right operating range. You do have these readings…don’t you? Also, if it’s really cold, don’t turn the steering wheel too much right away or you could risk blowing a hydraulic hose. The other thing that’ll keep your engine running longer is preheated coolant. The more cold-starts your diesel is subjected to, the shorter its lifespan will be. Inconsistent metal expansion and poor-flowing (thick) lubricants don’t provide protection from moving parts.

Another thing to worry about is fuel washing the cylinder walls before compression ignition can occur. Here is a message we got from a reader from the North Pole: “I have both batteries heated, the block heated, and two heating pads on the oil pan. The transmission is not heated, because it’s a stick. The intercooler is totally blocked as well. I might just put a pad on the transfer case and front differential, but it warms after about a mile of driving in four-wheel drive.” Diesel-fueled auxiliary heaters are also an option. It’s also just as important to let your diesel cool off before you shut it down. A turbo timer will do this automatically for you, because if it gets shut off too soon, oil will overheat, break down, and destroy turbo bearings.

6. You’re Not Reading the Smoke Signals

Don’t assume you can get by with worn-out injectors. If your truck is smoking black more than usual, that’s a possible sign your injectors need replacing. Another sign they are bad is if they start making noises. A diagnostic tool is able to individually shut down each injector to see which one is the culprit. White smoke often indicates coolant in the combustion chamber—either a sign of a head gasket failure or EGR cooler failure (if equipped). Blue smoke usually indicates engine oil in the combustion chamber—either from leaking piston rings or a bad valve seal. Insufficient compression can also cause a smoky engine.

7. You’re Not Keeping Your Truck Clean

Even if your truck is in perfect mechanical shape, it can still fall apart underneath you because rust never sleeps. Those who live in the Southwest don’t really have to worry about rust because it is too dry for the chemical reaction to take place. Everybody else should make it a point to keep paint chips filled with touchup paint and have a fresh coat of wax applied at least three times a year. During the winter months, when chemicals are applied to the roads to melt ice, you can’t wash your truck enough. During the rest of the year, avoid splashing through puddles, make sure your mudflaps are functioning, and try to avoid gravel roads if possible.

8. You’re Overheating Your diesel Engine

We’ve watched the vicious cycle of modify, race, and then destroy one’s engine play out more times than we’d like to see, but some people still don’t believe certain truths until they learn them the hard way. When making any modification to your diesel, it’s absolutely necessary to keep track of all the engine temperatures. Even stock vehicles can use the extra insurance that comes with knowledge of the coolant, exhaust gas temperature (EGT), and engine oil temperature. You can also use this information to diagnose oil coolers or cooling system failures.

9. Centrifugal Force Is Wearing Your Truck Out

For those on a tight budget, the unforeseen cost of a new set of tires (because the old ones prematurely wore out) can be a truck’s death sentence. Poor alignment, along with under-inflated tires, can cause bad fuel mileage and tires with uneven wear patterns. A bent rim or severely unbalanced tire can cause axle-bearing failure. An out-of-balance driveshaft can cause axle pinion bearing wear and transmission or transfer case damage. It’s also important to keep the U-joints greased or replaced. Driveline maintenance also includes changing your differential fluid.

10. You’re Poisoning Your Fuel Tank

According to the marine diesel industry, most engine problems begin in the fuel tank. This is because water intrusion is more present on the seas than it is on land. Still, according to BP, “Under normal storage conditions, diesel fuel can be expected to stay in a usable condition for 12 months or longer at an ambient of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.” Yet the lifespan of diesel drops to, “6 to 12 months at an ambient temperature higher than 86 degrees Fahrenheit.” As diesel fuel ages, BP points out that, “fine sediment and gum forms in the diesel brought about by the reaction of diesel components with oxygen from the air. The fine sediment and gum will block fuel filters, leading to fuel starvation and the engine stopping. Frequent filter changes are then required to keep the engine going. The gums and sediments do not burn in the engine very well and can lead to carbon and soot deposits on injectors and other combustion surfaces.”

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vitalmindandbody · 8 years ago

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Jackie review- Natalie Portman stupefies in singularly intimate portrait

No door handle is in a regular lieu , no space is a regular shape

Really, though, why do you want a small kinfolk SUV? Whats wrong with a regular clas barroom or, for anyone without a big hobby, a hot hatch? Is it like that thought whatever it is you do an MA because nobodys amazed by a certain degree any more, and then you end up knowing a ton about French feminism for no reason? Im not being anti-intellectual. Im not even being anti-SUV. Im simply being very slightly sceptical about the Toyota CH-R.

This is the most over-designed vehicle Ive ever come across: the dash is fancy with diamond patterns, the body work is lousy with pointy fragments , no doorway administer is in a regular plaza , no window is a regular influence if it is feasible to segmented. Nobody knows why they require their windows to look like bugs, or why the back end must continue to be simulated on an 80 s movie about a moving ship( which doesnt dwell; stop Googling ). I guess you could ever ask, but that would seem discourteous, like requesting someone if their “hairs-breadth” is meant to be that colour. All of this plays merry carnage with the rear visibility. This was not the car on which to test the proposition none actually need to see a parking camera; simple-minded smart park assistance( unmelodious, constant beeping) will do just fine.

There is a hybrid alternative, which gives it a brilliance, below 90 g/ km carbon emission, but in the regular 1.2 petrol instrument that I was driving, the mileage was unremarkable. Its light-headed and zippy, and the steering is trustworthy, but again, if thats the kind of event youre into, why did you buy these sorts of auto? A Golf will go like shit off a shovel. I guess you might crave boot space. There is space in this boot. You wouldnt want to applied a filing cabinet or a pair of spaniels in it, but you wouldnt be swearing the gods for your second infant when you went on holiday.

Its pretty quiet and smooth in town, but on the motorway it detects thin: theres a lot of ambient gale interference, a little bit of complain in the highest gears; seat and visibility in the back are constrained enough that any journey over half an hour results in fare claustrophobia.

Seriously, all this for the dignity of being able to step up into the car rather than precisely in, and a slightly lower journey than others on the road, who the hell is laughing at you anyway because of your spoiler. Id preferably choose simple-minded, humble and low-slung. Small, budget-ish SUVs are ugly by nature( oh my God, the Nissan Juke !) but this one makes a feature of it.

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Price 27,705 BTAG 1 TT Top accelerate 118 mphBTAG 2 TT Acceleration 0 to 62 mph in 10. 9 secondsBTAG 3 TT CO2 emissions 136 g/ km BTAG 4 TT Combined mileage 47.1 mpgBTAG 5 TT Cool rating 4/10 BTAG 6 TT Eco rating 7/10

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Pablo Larrans likenes of the first lady before and following John F Kennedys assassination doesnt play to the standard tropes of Hollywood biopics. Its a singular vision

Jackie, Chilean director Pablo Larrans English-language debut starring Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, boasts a commonly used framing design but theres nothing familiar about Larran and screenwriter Noah Oppenheims treatment of their iconic subject.

Structured around Theodore H Whites Life magazine interview at Hyannis Port a mere week after the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, Jackie unfolds in a mosaic-like form, tracking only the brief but definitive stage in their own lives while still managing to cover a lot of field. The narrative doesnt only move back and forth between the shocking daylight in Dallas, the ordering of the presidents funeral, her the amount of time spent accompanying her husbands coffin to Arlington cemetery, and her earlier time in the White House it often twirls, whirling the series of events together into a dizzying whole.

Larran has never told a true-life story in a predictable demeanour( he took a metafictional approach in his likenes of celebrated poet and politician Pablo Neruda in his last movie, Neruda ), and he doesnt here. Coupled with a daring narrative approach, thats bound to turn off some viewers, Larran submerge his movie with a cacophonous tally by Under the Skin composer Mica Levi that burrows uncomfortably deep. He likewise hit in grainy 16 mm, often in severe closeup, lending Jackie an uncommonly raw character for a biopic of its nature.

Portman is altogether astonishing in the character. Apart from sharing a wide smile, she doesnt much resemble Kennedy. She is however endowed with an overwhelming beautiful much like the real-life anatomy that Larran moves great give of in key incidents to illustrate the galvanising consequence Kennedy had on those around her. Most importantly, Portman thoroughly nails Kennedys breathy and docile-sounding articulation, without letting the affectations get the better of her. Her accent doesnt characterize her characterization it infuses it with a steadfast vitality.

As written by Oppenheim, Kennedy is a wonderfully complex persona, abounding at the seams with inconsistencies. During her long interview with White, shes drawn as both fractiou( Are you giving me professional admonition ?, she challenges after he makes the error of proposing molted do well in broadcast journalism ), and extremely vulnerable( describing her husbands assassinate shatters her picket ). In flashbacks to happier daylights expended get acquainted with her duties at the White House, Kennedy is hesitant and inquisitive.

What fields Portmans take, however, is a key cycle immediately following the assassination that discovers Kennedy shower her husbands blood off her fuzz, are working to rip off her crimson-stained pantyhose, and then finally, is available in bed alone. The intimate access is wrenching in its matter-of-factness.

Despite Jackies autumn festival placement( it world premiered at Venice, and is currently screening in Toronto ), frequently reserved for Oscar hopefuls, Larrans character study doesnt play into that narrative. Its a singular eyesight from an uncompromising administrator that happens to be about one of the most famous women around American record. Jackie is not Oscar bait its great cinema.