dpantazis
#12
Howdy all-
Been laying low for a while playing out some 2-9 and 2-7 hands dealt to me the last couple of years.....anyhow, back to Kings and Aces now...
My beloved Big Red starts making a mess.... oil in the valley, but not enough to be a gusher (yet), dinner plate sized puddle under the truck. ... Dyed the oil and its coming from somewhere near the turbo pedestal. So I figure that is common enough, we are at 220k so I should count my blessings. Order me up some o-rings from dieselorings and wait for a chance to wrench and get cracking...
Its been like 8-9 years since I had the intake and IC and charge cooler apart all the way to the turbo. The Racor PCV filter is doing its job- everything is CLEAN! 79 cent travel sized Aquanet did its job sealing up the boots. My homebrew plenum reinforcing rings did their job.
What didn't do its job is the HPX crossover line! As s professional engineer, it's a perfect example of bad engineering. Like a classic failure analysis example. Both the geometry and construction contributed to this failure. The plastic corrugated loom cover that came on the hose as protection, totally disintegrated and in pieces in the valley. This was a clue in hind site. Bubbles in the line under the outer rubber cover- leaks in the hose. Plain and simple, NOT the right hose for the job. The popped blister at the crimped on connector- poor workmanship in assembly. You should NOT get a failure here with a properly detailed and assembled hose..
The rubbing of the hose on the turbo pedestal bolt- that is either by poor design or poor installation. My money is on poor design seeing the rest of the issues. It should not have been anywhere near that bolt by design. I can accept if I f'd up putting it in, but I know that I fussed and fussed on this when I installed it because I recognized that if I didn't install this well, it could wear through and burst and I would be broke down on the side of a road in the dark in the rain somewhere... i remember using paint stirrers as shims to gap it and space the line when I tightened the connections.
Hmm, so I go check the diesel performance 'site' that I go the line from for updates or info. The 'site' says 'their' recommendation is to change this component AND the factory HPOP lines yearly. This screams CYA to me. Their 'new' design routes the hose a different way..hmm.
I can see them trying to cover their butts on their hose, but to claim the OEM HPOP lines lines once s year is ridiculous. More incompetent 'engineering'... stock HPOP line failures are unheard of. The duty cycled and the components used in the construction of these hoses went through way more engineering and review than you can imagine. The failure rate of the millions of those hoses is so small . Makes you wonder how many of theirs have failed so that they had to put up their disclaimer in red on their web site.
So on to the pictures...
Been laying low for a while playing out some 2-9 and 2-7 hands dealt to me the last couple of years.....anyhow, back to Kings and Aces now...
My beloved Big Red starts making a mess.... oil in the valley, but not enough to be a gusher (yet), dinner plate sized puddle under the truck. ... Dyed the oil and its coming from somewhere near the turbo pedestal. So I figure that is common enough, we are at 220k so I should count my blessings. Order me up some o-rings from dieselorings and wait for a chance to wrench and get cracking...
Its been like 8-9 years since I had the intake and IC and charge cooler apart all the way to the turbo. The Racor PCV filter is doing its job- everything is CLEAN! 79 cent travel sized Aquanet did its job sealing up the boots. My homebrew plenum reinforcing rings did their job.
What didn't do its job is the HPX crossover line! As s professional engineer, it's a perfect example of bad engineering. Like a classic failure analysis example. Both the geometry and construction contributed to this failure. The plastic corrugated loom cover that came on the hose as protection, totally disintegrated and in pieces in the valley. This was a clue in hind site. Bubbles in the line under the outer rubber cover- leaks in the hose. Plain and simple, NOT the right hose for the job. The popped blister at the crimped on connector- poor workmanship in assembly. You should NOT get a failure here with a properly detailed and assembled hose..
The rubbing of the hose on the turbo pedestal bolt- that is either by poor design or poor installation. My money is on poor design seeing the rest of the issues. It should not have been anywhere near that bolt by design. I can accept if I f'd up putting it in, but I know that I fussed and fussed on this when I installed it because I recognized that if I didn't install this well, it could wear through and burst and I would be broke down on the side of a road in the dark in the rain somewhere... i remember using paint stirrers as shims to gap it and space the line when I tightened the connections.
Hmm, so I go check the diesel performance 'site' that I go the line from for updates or info. The 'site' says 'their' recommendation is to change this component AND the factory HPOP lines yearly. This screams CYA to me. Their 'new' design routes the hose a different way..hmm.
I can see them trying to cover their butts on their hose, but to claim the OEM HPOP lines lines once s year is ridiculous. More incompetent 'engineering'... stock HPOP line failures are unheard of. The duty cycled and the components used in the construction of these hoses went through way more engineering and review than you can imagine. The failure rate of the millions of those hoses is so small . Makes you wonder how many of theirs have failed so that they had to put up their disclaimer in red on their web site.
So on to the pictures...
