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<p>Hm.</p><p>I remember a few trucks covered in oil after turbos failed. Seems quite a few did.</p><p>A desiel feels really good in the old tradition when you were about the mid-point between high torque and max horsepower on the engine's curve. I think different engines had different curves where there was what we called the "Sweet spot" and with the older desiels my favorite memory is when the engine did settle into that spot between 1450-1700 rpm give or take a few the resulting music was really good. You could just hold the hammer just so and run.</p><p>The newer governed engines required you to put your foot on the floor all day and the night. I got tired and have a bad foot to show for it. Always kicking that POS engine that seems to fall off it's spot, never quite developing full boost on the turbo and quite literally feeling like it's half full of water and rated at 80 horsepower. It did not matter if you were at sea level or passing Esienhower at 12,900 feet.</p><p>I actually relied on that cruise control to keep that engine at the top of the availible governed capacity. You get up to Kansas against the winds running to Denver by way of Limon and it gets aggravating having to drop a gear because your casterated mill wont hold torque or lug worth a damn.</p><p>I recall hauling steel with a tiny M11 cummins rated at 2100 and not restricted at all. Driving that Volvo was a JOY compared to the Freightsled with the big 370 cut down at 1600. Rip across the great smokies with the Volvo with hardly a thought to shifting while on the other hand fighting and kicking a POS casterated governed truck up the hill, over the top holding it down all the way to the bottom and over again... BLEAH.</p><p>I complained at length about the poor driveablity of some of the badly governed engines and dont expect non drivers to understand. </p><p>here is another try at explaination. Im stuck behind grandma at 45 mph on a 70 mph interstate. I see the coast is clear, pull out into the dead lane and accelerate. 5 mph and there is a sort of feeling thrown forward as you hit the governor and now grandma is speeding up a little bit. Just enough. In the older trucks I would have stored up the horses and hammered it down and finished the pass in a timely manner.</p><p>Ever wonder why trucks clog the interstate both or even all three lanes all trying to pass Swift or slowpoke on the far right? All of them governed at or below the 65 mph speed limit constantly shuffling and jockeying to let the faster dogs first while the slows fall back. It can take 2 hours or 100 miles to sort it all out.</p><p>Back in the old days you had horses first and the slows in the back while LEO's tried to find the ones who are breaking the speed limit and no one had trouble trying to get past the trucks.</p><p>And you want to burden a already cut down engine with MORE weight and present MORE surface area to those bad winds?</p><p>HAH.</p>
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