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In Diesel applications do they really use the word "exhaust" to stand for the "E" in EGT but actually mean Internal combustion temperature? Racing applications they worry about burning out a turbo too...my brother burned out two turbos in his turbo Corvette, but he's a dumbass. To go back to...

Not quite that simple, especially where fuel is still burning as it exits the compression chamber. Or to look at that idea from the opposite end, a diesel engine can have peak torque much lower than peak horsepower, in that instance of peak torque at lower RPM the fuel will have longer to burn...

Thanks. The names of th I drove an old dump truck with that issue. If you want to know where your "sweet spot is" see if the marine folxs use your engine. Eg. The 3116 is very highly used in marine applications. And they have detailed conversations about RPM and Propeller tuning for cruise...

Oh, Okay I get it. Thanks!

Where is the reduction hub? In the planetary part that is "inside" the wheel? It was my base assumption that this was the part that needed to be protected from the abuse of high speed operation, but of course everything is probably different for these little axles. Has anyone put a hub temp...

Was there a mechanical drawing somewhere for the mod? I seem to misunderstand it.

Devil's advocate here. I used to drive super heavy oversize trucks. When you get to the huge stuff you end up calling the truck a "prime mover" that's when they switch from 56k lb axles to the planetaries, that can handle stuff over 300,000lb gvwr. The thing with planetaries is, yeah at low...