Posted by Mark - IN. on September 23, 2014 at 23:45:21 from (184.16.133.66):
In Reply to: Ever wash your turbo? posted by NCWayne on September 23, 2014 at 21:10:09:
Nope, never heard of or tried that. I guess that if start from a cold turbo and impeller, sounds like a good deal. I used to have a couple of early '70's International 2070 Transtars and will always remember the factory stickers on the glove box that said after using, to idle the engine for 5 minutes before shutting down to allow the turbo to cool down to prevent damage, so I made it a practice. On my tractors I don't go 5 minutes, but go a few.
As far as washing the turbo, the closest that I ever came was when was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX, poured a couple or few gallons down the exhaust stack of one of my buddy's 5 tons as a joke while everyone was inside the shop and no one saw me do it. We used to have to park them lined up in the motor pool, and his was the closest to the side of our painted white shop with the exhaust pointed at the painted white shop. I knew the water would come out, but honestly didn't figure that it would blow out with the force that it did. The shop sargeant gave the order, "Everyone outside and PM the vehicles", and followed us outside. Ron fired up his 5 ton and there was an awful lot of built up black soot in there that covered the side wall of our shop. "Shut it off, shut it off, shut it off" our not very cool sargeant was screaming. He was about the most uncool, by the book sargeant there ever was, and if I told him the truth, he would have written me up or busted me, so I just let him think that something major happened, that it was oil spewed out because he was always right about everything as the book called for, and we followed his orders and pulled it over to the shop and let the mechanics replace it with a crate engine a few days later. One night while out having a few beers, after my buddy got a brand spankin new engine in his 5 ton that it didn't really need, I told my him all about it. He was happy. His 1970's M81x had a new engine and was one of the stoutest around thanks to my practical joke.
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