From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Sun Sep 04 2005 - 14:20:57 PDT
That was a really good post Robin,
I would never have thought of that at all. Luckily, I was able to
drive my M54A2
home from Seattle to Berkeley, CA. It has a Mutifuel with a turbo.
Bruce MVPA 23824
Robin Craig wrote:
> I was talking with a friend recently over the impending transport of a
> truck. He was having it moved by a trucking company. He is kind of new
> to the big truck world and in passing I mentioned the story about
> early turbo charger failures that the Canadian Forces experienced due
> to poor transport. It seemed that when the AVGP or LAV's were being
> sent from the factory to the bases the civvy trucking company were
> loading them onto drop deck detachable gooseneck trailers. In doing so
> they were driving the vehicles forward onto the trailers. That ended
> up pointing the load rearward on the trailers. Anyway, time went by
> and turbos were failing prematurely. Investigation revealed that the
> loading back to front on the vehicles from the factory was the cause.
> The exhaust was then pointing in the direction of travel and causing
> the turbos to turn all the way during transport without oil pressure
> to lube them, hence the early failures. A directive was then issued
> that in cases such as that the exhaust must be covered properly to
> stop the turbo turning. While to 99% of listers this might seem a no
> brainer, to some newbie's it might be an eye opener especially with
> the number of turbo charged trucks around these days.
> Rgds Robin Craig
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