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Your right mate, my old bus never gave me any real trouble but it didn't get half the abuse my current one does either.
Since all the dramas started I fitted a bigger intercooler, EGT gauge, external engine temp monitor with alarm & a Donaldson Tops Spin pre-cleaner. Hopefully this time around the engine will last a little longer without giving me to much grief. I just have to get a provent & I will be about done.
The top spin makes a big difference, the 4 days I had in the desert before the balancer spun on the crank left the air box pretty well clean, even with a day driving in a heavy sand storm, there was a light dusting of sand in the element but only a fraction of what I would have would normally have had previously. Shame I waited until I trashed an engine before I learnt my lesson. :eek:
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The pre cleaners work well at getting the heavier particles out of the air stream but it's the smaller stuff that does the damage.
One of the locals here had a badly fitting air cleaner element that they only discovered after a Simpson trip :(
That was a few years ago, they've just put a freshly rebuilt TD5 in, I think it started with a head gasket that was leaking and they just kept on driving.
It's a '00 model so probably did the plastic dowels, bloody shame, supposedly cost $9000 so far :eek:
