forwardho

I pull my truck out of the garage and park it in the street. It only runs one minute so I can work in the garage. Some times I drive to the store, just 3 miles away. The truck never warms up.
I do run it hard at lease once a week.
Am I doing harm to it with these short bursts?

rhino 660

i dont think so but you sure are hurting it's fealings

kev94mx

You need to get it out and take a long drive and get it up to operating temps.

madhat

Yeah, at least 1-2x a week, get it up to operating temps, you'll be good. If you hardly ever run it, keep the fuel tank full.

pcburnout

Diesel's are warm blooded engines and preferred to run 24hrs a day unlike gas that wear out faster. I would not think its any good for injectors to never burn off any carbon build up. I would take it out and getter nice and hot at least once a week. Mines a Florida truck and she loves the heat!

DBLR

I think you best do oil changes every 5-6 months as you are not getting the oil hot enough to burn the contaminates in it or the fuel that gets by the rings when you drive it cold for 3 miles at a time. Also it would be a very good idea to do UOA on the oil when you change it.

I think what your doing is hard on the engine so take it out on the Hwy and run it for a few hours non stop so that it gets a chance to heat up the whole engine and that will help burn the carbon off the valves and injectors and stuff in the oil.

If you have a car to drive why not keep the truck parked until you can drive it to get it up to operating temps and then for a minimum of 10 miles once it reaches full operation temp.

JMHO

Rocky5.9

You could always let me warm it up for you once or twice a week.