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But passenger vehicles’ light duty cycles don’t allow for automatic burning, so sometimes they have to perform forced burn cycles when the vehicle is parked. This uses a ton of extra fuel and upsets the owner, who doesn’t understand why their vehicle is running at a fast idle by itself and has superheated exhaust pouring out the back. Some early light trucks actually caught their plastic rear bumpers on fire. | But passenger vehicles’ light duty cycles don’t allow for automatic burning, so sometimes they have to perform forced burn cycles when the vehicle is parked. This uses a ton of extra fuel and upsets the owner, who doesn’t understand why their vehicle is running at a fast idle by itself and has superheated exhaust pouring out the back. Some early light trucks actually caught their plastic rear bumpers on fire. | ||
- | These chambers also get plugged up easily, [[https:// | + | These chambers also get plugged up easily, [[https:// |
- | To top it off, some early light diesels did a terrible job integrating the extra fuel delivery required - instead of adding an extra injector, they cheaped out and had the last injector in the engine shoot extra fuel during the exhaust stroke, which caused internal engine issues (The 6.4L V-8 used in the [[rv: | + | To top it off, some early light diesels did a terrible job integrating the extra fuel delivery required - instead of adding an extra injector, they cheaped out and had the last injector in the engine shoot extra fuel during the exhaust stroke, which caused internal engine issues (The 6.4L V-8 used in Ford trucks was a particularly egregious example of this). |
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