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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DRTDEVL, post: 12042169, member: 106279&quot;]Driving an old FLD with 2.4 mil on it in the oilfields of ND.&nbsp; Just loaded up with production water and was making a right turn onto 1304.&nbsp; If anybody knows 1304, there are no shoulders, just a deep ditch right next to the pavement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I&#039;m rolling from the stop, complete the turn, and hit the 4-ways, as it was immediately uphill.&nbsp; I get to 8th gear in the old 13-speed, and BOOM!&nbsp; The turbo on the N14 let loose.&nbsp; I&#039;m now fogging for skeeters and losing speed, fast.&nbsp; Oil, too.&nbsp; I had to split them down and use the hidden (naughty) gears in the high range while trying to keep every bit of momentum I had to get to where a driveway cut out from the right and I could partially get the unit off the main lanes with enough view for people to safely pass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Called up dispatch... &quot;Can you make it to the yard?&nbsp; You&#039;re only about 10 miles away.&quot;&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; &quot;You sure you can&#039;t get to the XXX disposal a mile up the road, unload, then get to the yard empty?&quot;&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; &quot;Why not?&quot;&nbsp; It won&#039;t have any oil left by the time I get there.&nbsp; &quot;How do you know?&quot;&nbsp; Because its no longer showing on the dipstick after about 1 minute of driving.&nbsp; The turbo blew.&nbsp; &quot;What makes you think the turbo blew?&quot;&nbsp; Oh, just all the smoke and all the crankcase oil filling the exhaust and leaking out of every exhaust clamp.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, they didn&#039;t want to pay for that wrecker, but there was nothing I could do about it.&nbsp; Safety showed up (I was only about 10 miles from the yard, remember?), saw the oil everywhere, noted the proper placement of the triangles, and had me get into his truck that he parked in another driveway across the road and back a couple hundred feet.&nbsp; While I was waiting, I pulled out my tools and removed the intake hose.&nbsp; Yup.&nbsp; Bearing blew out of the turbo, it was locked solid, ####ed at a bit of an angle, and was luckily dumping the contents of the crankcase out of the hot side, not the cold side.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bean counters retired that truck instead of putting a turbo on it.&nbsp; I picked out an FLD in the back lot with a 6NZ to replace it.&nbsp; No way I was going to get in one of those rattletrap Volvo VHDs they had just purchased (basically a Volvo cab on a Mack frame and suspension with an i-shift AMT).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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