Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

The wife gave me her knife to use while I was fixing fence last evening, welp, this is the end result. Snapped the pliers….

 

Today’s project.
Putting ACERT compounds on a 2WS.

 

I'm in the dark here. Why would you put the compound turbos on a 2WS. Not being a smart butt I really wanna know thank you

 

Compound turbos give you a wider operating range than a single turbo can before you run into heat issues.
This one is going to get tuned also, the guy will be routinely grossing a bit over 100,000 lbs, and will be at 3,000-4,000’ elevation.
With the compound turbos there will be absolutely no egt issues at the power level he plans to be at.
These turbos are 71mm on the manifold and an 82mm atmospheric turbo. A common single on a Cat is 78mm.
These turbos would support well in excess of 700 wheel hp in a working application, and have zero egt issues. That is nearly impossible to do with a single turbo, at that power level, weight, elevation, etc.

 

One of my guys went to single turbo on his Acert and the other day he told me he wanted to put his compound turbos back on. I thought he was crazy. Evidently, I'm the one that's crazy. I'm an old dog but I don't mind learning new tricks. Crazy question, butt would that help water temp also even a little? I'm always big and heavy and in the summer it's hard to keep water temp's down pulling against wind or my 9 at 170000. Thx again.

 

I’d definitely keep it

 

That kind of weight, that blow dryer heat there ain’t much you can do except settle in for a long day. Just put some foghat on.


seriously though. I don’t know what you are running for a radiator. Specifically square inches. If you are running the standard Pete 1250” radiator that’s your problem.

 

If you’re not fighting egt, IMO, when you’re that heavy, it comes down to how much radiator you have. As @ElmerFudpucker said.
Often if you fight temperature on one front you’ll fight it on other places also, ie, if you fight egt you’ll fight water temp also.
If it’s just water temp, look into the biggest core you can stuff into your radiator frame.

 

Today’s fun stuff

 

Is it going to go missing?