Mechanical Engine Shutoff Timer

[56wrench]

I have one of those shut-down timers on my old FLD with an N14 2000 vintage. It may have been factory installed. I used it all the time. I added the same timers to my other trucks and one NH combine. That way i didn’t have to sit in the cab while it cooled down, especially in the field during harvest. Just wheel into the field, crank the timer on and bail out and run to the next one. The last one i added one to was a 2007 W/Star. I got them from the F/L dealer. Used to be about $100cad but the price has gone up.

 

[cuttin edge]

Since tier two engines-those idlers became a thing of the past, I don't know if those are still produced.
Can't remember the brand name-started with a {H} I thought.

Some of the older Peterbilts I was around had the timers, and I thought they had the same name on them as the Button you had to hold until you had oil pressure...Kysor?

 

[92U 3406]

Murphy?

 

[stinky64]

We had all the shut down functions deleted on the trucks at the feed mill, hydraulics for the auger functions don't work very well when the engine shuts down.

 

[cuttin edge]

We had all the shut down functions deleted on the trucks at the feed mill, hydraulics for the auger functions don't work very well when the engine shuts down.

He wants something for an 80's early 90s truck, no electronics. Say you hauled into a truck stop, and really needed to go in in a hurry. Turn the dial to 5 min, pull the key, lock the doors and run. Truck gets a chance to cool down. No DEF back then, so idling was not an issue. Can't remember what the max you could set it for.

 

[Truck Shop]

Most were 30 minutes, some one hour.

 

[56wrench]

Mine were 15min which were adequate most of the time unless it was for warmup in cold weather. I would use them occasionally for warmup incase i got distracted and left them running too long