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How do you know when your turbo is working correctly?
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In another life I worked on a tug boat and one of our Mirrlees-Blackstones did exactly that. I will never forget that beast starting to revv up, out of control. Yeah, they are machines, but that engine was screaming like a living being. The chief engineer ripped the air intake flex off (no idea how he managed to do that so quickly) and I used a three quarter inch piece of plywood that happened to be there and shoved it over the intake. The suction was so great that the plywood sheet cracked right away. Fortunately, it held together long enough for the Diesel to start choking and we got it stopped, eventually and brutally. The amazing thing was that there was no damage, no bent rods, no damaged valve train. Just the turbo was a goner. It was spontaneous failure, no advance warning. We were so lucky.FreightTrain said:since you cannot shut down a diesel if the intake seal lets go without getting out,opening the hood,pull the filter can and put something over the intake to block ALL the air
Has anyone ever toyed around with fabbing up a cable operated shutoff installed somewhere in the intake air system?scooter01922 said:It won't if the intake seal on the turbo has gone, then you are using the engines own oil as fuel, till you either run out of oil ( not so likely) or over rev the engine and cause it to self destruct ( more likely). Unless you stop the flow of air into the engine its pretty much a gonner either way.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that they use these in the oild fields, I think it was up in the arctic.FMJ said:Has anyone ever toyed around with fabbing up a cable operated shutoff installed somewhere in the intake air system?scooter01922 said:It won't if the intake seal on the turbo has gone, then you are using the engines own oil as fuel, till you either run out of oil ( not so likely) or over rev the engine and cause it to self destruct ( more likely). Unless you stop the flow of air into the engine its pretty much a gonner either way.
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