Naw, mine is not that bad
Peter Frederick wrote:
Have I told you my dead turbo story?
I had the turbo die in my 85 Volvo TD a couple years after I bought it.
Been leaking oil forever, I think, but it finally stopped spinning up
hot (it was always poky cold, I though that was just turbodiesels).
So I put a new on in and also discovered that my smoke problem was a
sticking EGR valve -- terrible smoke and no power until it was up to
speed (meaning you couldn't see the car behind -- SERIOUS smoke!).
Anyway, I got it installed and took of the next day to visit my sister,
who was then living in Dayton , OH, about 5 hours away. Ran great all
the way up, except for the turbo noise -- quite loud on those cars,
believe me -- sounds like a cop car a couple blocks back.
On the way home, however, after pulling the long grade out of
Louisville, KY on I-64, I though I saw sparks behind me, just like
someone had dropped a lit cigarette out the window, only bigger. More
on the next hill, and it was ME blowing sparks. Big sparks, looked like
about half an inch or so chunks of burning carbon. All the rest of the
trip, as I topped a hill, a shower of flaming carbon blew out the exhaust!
I guess that thick layer of glassy carbon and soot was igniting under
load, and when the blast of fresh air blew through when the pedal lifted
as I went over the top of the hill it caused chunks to break off and
fly through the exhaust. Quite a show as it was dark -- probably blew
burning material out on the way up, too, but it was daylight then!
Burned out the exhaust, I had to replace everything downstream of the
down-pipe. All the seams in the mufflers cracked, and the weld around
the pipe was loose at the rear muffler. Still had more than 1/4" of
coked oil and carbon in the mufflers, they weighed a ton!
Hope yours isn't that bad!
Peter
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