After a hard pull on tow vehicle
After a hard pull do you do anything out of ordinary with your vehicle? I just wait for temps to get back down to normal before shutting off. Hard pull yesterday at over 90 degrees in higher elevat...
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GordonThree wrote:
Thank you for the information.
I did not realize a diesel was so susceptible to damage.
It's not. I've owned and designed turbo engines for over 35 years, both gas and diesel and never had a turbo problem. I wish I had some pictures of the turbo hot section so hot it was glowing orange. Never ever any synthetic oil either. These are also old oil only cooled turbo's with sleeve bearings and not the fancy water cooled ball bearing they have now days.
I've only let an engine idle maybe two or three times in my life. One time was when the water temp got to about 270 and EGT was about 1,400 post turbo. Things were a little warm that day. I have yet to see any coking in any of my turbo's I have taken off my engines.
