2001 isx problems???

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  1. Nov 7, 2010 #1
    cummins21

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    My grandfather has a 2001 freightliner with the isx 500 with 650,000 miles. We just replaced the turbo because there was oil in the outlet and thru the intercooler tubes. It has a lot of blow by. To put into example it is just a solid stream and makes a cloud around the truck. We are wondering what has happened to the truck because most of it has happened all of a sudden like the oil in the turbo outlet. Hope somebody can help. Thanks
     
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  3. Nov 7, 2010 #2
    Pablo-UA

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    seal damage is usually caused with bearing play ore turbine disballance. Before it happens turbine is lowder then usually.

    But 650k it is a long life for turbine! change and do not worry for next half million miles
     
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  4. Nov 7, 2010 #3
    Trouble65

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    What about a very leaky fuel injector?
     
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  5. Nov 8, 2010 #4
    cummins21

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    sorry forgot to say that this was after the turbo was changed and before the turbo was changed.
     
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  7. Nov 8, 2010 #5
    Paddletrucker

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    If it was a 2001, wouldn't it be an N-14? I thought the ISX didn't come out 'till 2003 or so. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't run a Cummins. Would it make any difference if it was an ISX or an N-14?
     
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  8. Nov 8, 2010 #6
    Cowpie1

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    ISX came out in 2000. I never blew out the turbo on any truck I have been around in 30 years. Put 1.4 million on a '96 N-14 and it still had original turbo when I crawled out of it. My current ISX has around 627,000 on it and turbo still doing just fine. Now, watch me have to eat my words since I brought it up!!
     
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  9. Nov 8, 2010 #7
    Pablo-UA

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    seems to me old engines were better...
     
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