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[quote]QUOTE: In 20 years of working on locomotives I've never seen a stack fire as a result of turbo seal failures. I have covered parking lots full of vehicles in lube oil, had to repaint some trackside houses, but never had a fire because of lube oil out the stack. Bottom line is the lube oil coming out the stack isn't any where near it's flashpoint. There is no design problem with the GE turbo seal. <br />Randy <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Randy, <br /> <br />I think you are right on this, and I was wrong. Having driven a diesel truck during a turbo seal failure, I do remember the oil coverage on the following trailer that I was pulling. But then again I seem to remember witnessing a real turbo fire. <br /> <br />Flashpoint is really the wrong term to apply when talking about this subject, the right term is autoignition, from what I've read after your posting. As I now understand it, flashpoint has to to with transportation standards and autoignition has to do with engine fuel combustion. <br /> <br />From time to time I pick-up at Globe Turbo, I think I'll ask one of the engineers at that place this question. Globe Turbo is the OEM source for turbos for Alco locomotives. <br /> <br />This is very much subjective, but I've never seen photos of a turbo'd EMD stack fires, but lately there are many photos of GE turbo'd stack fires being posted on the web. What's going on here? Can you explain? <br /> <br />Jim
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