MAN - More Tips for When Your Vehicle Stands for a While
Following yesterdays posting, Man Truck & Bus Malaysia shares more useful tips that can be helpful to maintain
operational readiness beyond the current restrictions, whenever a vehicle may be parked for some time. While this is highly applicable during this time of Movement Control, these tips are also useful in case you have to park your vehicles for a time in other circumstances.
Tip 3 - Drain compressed air reservoir
Dry the area on the water drain valve 1 and pressed the drain valve 1 from the side using a suitable tool.
*only air should emerge, if condensation emerges:
- Drain entire compressed air reservoir.
- Drain the compressed air reservoir again after a week.
If condensation persists please contact local MAN service center.
Tip 4 – Warming up
- The coolant temperature increases very slowly at idling speed under little load. Therefore, do not run the engine to warm it up at a standstill.
- Instead, warm up engine under medium load. This is the most efficiency way for the engine, gearbox, and drive axles to reach their operating temperature .
Tip 5 - Engine operating oil pressure
Make sure the oil pressure at the range (1.2 to 1.5 bar) when idling.
Same process as tips 2 (see post from yesterday) to check engine oil pressure, with engine running.