Oil Cooled Only Turbos? Experiences?
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Oil Cooled Only Turbos? Experiences?
Just wondering how many of you are running Oil Cooled only turbos and what you are seeing in terms of reliability, oil life, etc? On one of my past 1.6 builds I was running a T28 Oil Cooled Only turbo that seemed to cook oil like crazy (Oil needed to be changed every 1K or so) despite allowing extensive cool downs.
Just curious if you all have had similar experiences?
Just curious if you all have had similar experiences?
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No reason you should ever have any issues unless you run **** oil or dont change it often enough. In which case you would have issues with a water cooled turbo also, so its really not an issue. I would have no problem running an oil only turbo daily driven and tracked. Like Pat said, with modern oil, its not an issue as much to have oil break down like dino oil used to on really hot setups. However, given the option I would run water cooled just to help spread out the cooling duty.
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We've got plenty of folks who have 10,000+ hours of run time at various loads and rpms on original turbos with oil only on the diesel side. Some push 45psi boost. On Rotella dino oil.
When we do have failures it is usually due to hot shutdown and can be traced back as a recurring problem with certain operators. Human error.
BTW - anyone know where to find a 24v turbo timer? God knows we need some in this industry.
When we do have failures it is usually due to hot shutdown and can be traced back as a recurring problem with certain operators. Human error.
BTW - anyone know where to find a 24v turbo timer? God knows we need some in this industry.
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Ya I have problems with my operators not alowing idle time before shut down, the best solution I found for that is to send the home for the rest of the day. All 40 or so of our machines are oil only cooled and some have lasted over 10,000 hours.
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We don't use oil temp just time, not all of our machines run at the same temps, or even have oil temp gauges. CA new laws state that we can only allow and engine to Idle for 5 minutes or we can be fined.