Turbo's are very very heavy...

[bevans6]

Speaking of turbo's, I installed mine today and that is one heavy puppy!  It's hung off the driver's side of the engine, it has to go in from the side so I have to sit on the muffler cover and kind of curl it up over my head and place it on the mount, then I need to hold it there with my left hand while I fish around behind it to get one bolt started.  Holding 75 lbs of turbo up in front of your face with one hand is a job for a younger man than I am.  I gotta start calling a friend over when I do this stuff.

[edvanland]

Yep us old farts can not do that anymore, now how do we learn we cant

[bevans6]

Our wives tell us if we're lucky, serious injury or death if we're not!  

On a side note, I get a really happy chuckle out of seeing that pristine new manifold that I made.  All shiny and bright, paint still on the manifold and the hot housing, I bet the welds were still hot when I took that picture!  The aluminium sheet metal manifold I made for the blower intake still bright aluminium, hasn't been painted yet!  I like that picture a lot.  Proves that once I had skills...   

[eagle19952]

no additional support needed?

[bevans6]

It's tied to the block at the top, and has two supports down to the engine cradles made of 1.5" by 1/4" steel strap.  I could probably lift the bus with the turbo support.  I may have put the straps in after that photo.  My main worry is cracking the exhaust tubing, it's only 16 gauge tube.  You buy the bends as 90 degree or 180 degree bends, and cut out what you need and weld it all together.  I used to make race car headers the same way.

Brian

[gumpy]

You should tackle the air compressor next!

[BenMC7]

Why not ceramic coat the hot parts and dispersant coat the cold parts while your at it.  It cuts the heat in the compartment and can help cool the incoming charge as well.  Heat blankets on the exhaust would help too.

[chessie4905]

Do you have one or two ss mesh connectors in turbo exhaust to absorb vibration and expansion?

[bevans6]

I didn't ceramic coat it due to cost and time, and since it was (in 2011 when I was doing it) still subject to later modification, kind of a prototype that I ended up modifying slightly and keeping.  When the shiny picture was taken I still didn't know for sure that it would actually fit.  Also, in my mind two stroke diesel exhaust is pretty cool, rarely gets over 700 - 800 degrees, so I didn't bother.

I didn't add expansion joints, but I did add slip joints to do the same thing - allow for expansion and contraction along the tubes.  That worked out fine, no cracks.

[TomC]

Just as much fun installing a Delco 50DN (100lbs) on the back of the engine 2ft in on a V-drive. We're all there with you!