Buying Advice Elevation and the need for a turbo?

[chriswheeler]

That is why we had pre-lube pumps on all of our emergency equipment that sat most of the time. The starting procedure included a pre-lube cycle that took oil pressure to a point before the starter would be allowed to engage starting the engine. Sure our stuff was mostly very large stationary stuff. ( example Cat 3516's, EMD's, and V 12's Waukesha's ) but infrequent starts on any equipment that sets for long periods of time and costs 1/2 million makes you not want to take that chance. Same reasoning goes to block heaters for coolant. When it HAS to START like a fire truck or any emergency equipment there isn't much that you won't do to make that happen. Field equipment might come down to what costs could you justify in your operation. What expenses can you economically justify.
Chris

 

[Agvg]

One thing that keeps coming as advise, you must cool your turbo etc etc.

To days small and very light turboes dosent spin very long after you have shutt down your engine, the prof of that are the enormous number of turbo cars where the owner dosent know it has any turbo, and still turboes last for several 100 000 km if oil is changed as it should.