EGT Gauge - Necessary???
Hi there, We're getting ready to tow our 2008 Heartland Sundance 30ft with our 2006 Ford 250 6.0l Powerstroke Turbo. We're heading from PEI to Vancouver Island so about 7000km in total in just over...
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gmckenzie wrote:
Turbo will fail before you cook a piston. Do you think no one has burned a turbo with a stock tune while towing?
No, I've never heard of anybody burning a turbo with a stock tune on a diesel.
I don't even know what "burning a turbo" means? But I have only designed, built and driven turbo systems for only 35 or so years.
These are old sleeve type turbo's with only oil cooling and not the modern ball bearing with water/ oil cooling like all modern trucks have on them.
I have let my turbo's cool off on only a hand full of times ever in 35+ years; and this is for my daily drivers. And this is more for the engine than the turbo. My diesel truck DD now has 180 thousand on it with the stock turbo. I suspect the truck will be junk long before I have to replace the turbo in it.
The turbo system below was designed and built by me. I drove it every day because it was the only car I had at the time. Never let it cool off and the post EGT was 1,300 F just driving down the road with no boost. Gasoline engines are far worse on turbo's because of the high EGT's and constant heating and cooling cycles that most DD put them through. I might start and stop my DD 10, 15+ times a day.
I have taken the turbo off many times over the years and have never seen any coking or heat damage. I have gotten this turbo so hot the turbine section was glowing a weird orange/white color.
So please tell me what "burning a turbo" means?
