JD wrote:
> Kwyjibo wrote:
>
>>> Yep, have noticed that, and can be a pain in the ass when in very slow
>>> moving traffic. BTW, not meaning to be too picky but you are using the
>>> word "throttle" hapharzardly. Haven't seen too many diesels that have
a
>>> throttle
>> My diesel landcruiser had a hand throttle.
>>
>
> "throttle", technically speaking is a flap that constricts the intake on
an
> internal combustion or steam engine. Diesel engines, with rare
exceptions,
> do not have a throttle, as the intake is not varied to change the engine
> power, which is changed by changing the amount of fuel injected.
>
> Because a throttle is used to control the power or speed of petrol
engines,
> the term has become synonymous in popular vocabulary with "power
control",
> but strictly speaking should not be used with diesels. Your diesel had
> a "hand speed control", probably actually a "hand idling speed control"
in
> fact.
Plenty of older diesels had throttles.
The 1979 Landcruiser I owned with a "B" diesel had one.
Daryl
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