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Rusty
said:
Inside the turbine
housing, there's a thin divider that goes between the two exhaust
chambers. My decision to abandon the Mazda turbo was based on
disassembling a use turbo (not the one I was flying), and
finding severe cracks in this divider. Some of them were getting
close to losing pieces of the divider, which could be what happened to
John. If a piece of this breaks loose, it will impact the turbine, and
potentially break the shaft.
Nope. I have mine apart. The divider is
(was) in good shape. Looks to me like the weld let go, probably because the
bearings were weak and the shaft was occilating. I'll post pictures on my web
site soon.
> For the
record, I have offered to sell mine to John
For the record I've agreed to buy it.
:)
I'll be putting it on an "off-road" vehicle.
Wayyyyyyyyyyy off road.
> Since I wouldn't
personally continue flying the stock turbo,
> I certainly
wouldn't encourage anyone else to do it either.
I thought you removed the turbo mostly for
weight reasons.
At least this failure mode was fairly
benign. If another one fails I'm outta
here!
Rusty (turbo free for
2 hours now)
You
say that like you gave up smoking or something
:)
Regards,
John (turbo free for 10 minutes. Anxious
to get back in the
saddle)
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