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About 6 months ago, i had a sauna under the hood. It turned out to be that
the Earls elbow fitting supplying coolant to the turbo sprung a pinhole and was hosing the turbo with
coolant. Sucks, but no problem, replaced it with a nickle plated aluminum fitting.
About 6 months later the other side went with a gush. I bypassed the turbo and drove it for about
2 weeks.
I work in a Cleanroom-Fab and we have literally miles of SS tube supplying gasses and fluids all over
the place. I found what i needed in the scrap bin. I sometimes have to custom bend SS tube for test
stations at work, supplying DI water. I think i'll make myself some :idea
hadn't occured to me sooner).
I borrowed a bender and cutter from work over the weekend and went to work.
http://www.redz31.com/coppermine/thu...s.php?album=35
F/A:
The thin wall of the elbows were eroded inside-out from the coolant flow, it is pretty thin tube so that can probably be
expected. What i did not expect was to see erosion inside the 90deg elbow that threaded into the npt fitting on the
turbo. It is not made from tube, but would have eventually failed as well. I had old coolant so that no doubt contributed
to the failure as well.
Lesson: 1, use stainless 2, check the scrap metal bin more often. :wink:
the Earls elbow fitting supplying coolant to the turbo sprung a pinhole and was hosing the turbo with
coolant. Sucks, but no problem, replaced it with a nickle plated aluminum fitting.
About 6 months later the other side went with a gush. I bypassed the turbo and drove it for about
2 weeks.
I work in a Cleanroom-Fab and we have literally miles of SS tube supplying gasses and fluids all over
the place. I found what i needed in the scrap bin. I sometimes have to custom bend SS tube for test
stations at work, supplying DI water. I think i'll make myself some :idea
hadn't occured to me sooner).I borrowed a bender and cutter from work over the weekend and went to work.
http://www.redz31.com/coppermine/thu...s.php?album=35
F/A:
The thin wall of the elbows were eroded inside-out from the coolant flow, it is pretty thin tube so that can probably be
expected. What i did not expect was to see erosion inside the 90deg elbow that threaded into the npt fitting on the
turbo. It is not made from tube, but would have eventually failed as well. I had old coolant so that no doubt contributed
to the failure as well.
Lesson: 1, use stainless 2, check the scrap metal bin more often. :wink:
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