Educate me on turbos

[ljmolina]

When I purchased my bird T337G early this year, I was in the same boat as you should I/Should I not...Im glad I did just because they are getting harder to find and If I ever want to take a trip and fly at those altitudes, I know she is capable, but then again it depends on your mission right?

I was told by my mechanic that the turbos on my plane are built tough, really hard to damage them with proper use of controlling your power settings. You dont want to shock cool them. Otherwise there is really no additional maintenance with them, other than just keep your engine oil clean. Im not a mechanic but I believe the only thing they check is to make sure its free and there is no play on the compressor wheel shaft....you can do this my reaching in the turbo exhaust and try to wiggle it...if its free spinning and no side wiggle...its good.