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[Rawze]

(07-30-2019 )Pratt Wrote:  It went through 2 before it was ever deleted and 1 after

Then you have been doing something very wrong with them. Instead of finding the actual cause/issue, you chose to cover it up / band-aide it. Properly running and cared for engines do not have such issues.

You will not win this discussion, nor convince anyone on here of such. Your replies are only a sign of stubbornness. There are more than a few hundred people on this forum with Holset VG turbo's, modern engines with proper programming and properly cared-for engines that do not have such issues with them at all. This includes likely hundreds of people who have de-mandated trucks, some of them for a million miles+ on here.

I have 1.3 million miles on my own truck, it is on its second turbo (was changed at 580,000 miles in) and I was actually the cause of the first one's shortened demise myself. If not for that, it likely would have made it to 800k or more miles. - By shutting off my truck when the turbo and exhaust system it was very hot one day (middle of a regen cycle, like 800 degrees hot), like an idiot, I was not thinking when I did so. That would have killed/carbonized the bearing in any turbo, nonetheless my particular VG. - Aside form that, this second one has been on there now for more than 700,000 miles now and still going strong. - i removed the actuator and did a thorough inspection of the turbo itself about a month ago or so,.. it is still in good shape and the VG arm moves smoothly still. - i replaced all the bearings in the controller, re-soldered the board, and gave it a make-over to extend its life. - Thing works like a dream still and i am still busting 8 - 9 mpg all day long with 80,000 lbs in a 53' dry-box. there is no way in hells creation i could get anywhere near that kind of fuel mileage if i had taken that VG off my engine,.. it would have cost me half my fuel mileage and most of my profits, as I haul low-rent freight.

I hyper-mile all my loads, that is where my money is because I don't like killing myself or my truck to make a dollar... i also like to take time off, so I squeeze every dime out of what I do so that i can enjoy life instead of pissing away against the grain all the time.