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If you run a Diesel engine under 60% of its capacity for prolonged periods you could experience wet stacking, which is unburned fuel leaking past the cylinders.

Short periods of wet stacking is not too damaging but repeatedly and for prolonged periods your maintenance costs will skyrocket.
Most diesel engines do not run at 60% load.
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