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ive never understood why starving a journal bearing to stop smoking is a solution. IMO that reduces the life of the turbo drastically since it needs oil not only for lubrication, but cooling as well. metal fatigue will eventually cause droop, misshapen turbine blades and eventually imbalance and big failure. sure it may work short term but in the long run its still a bandaid fix and could cause major issues a couple thousand miles down the road...not to mention that now that your choking off oil, oil pressure before the restrictor pill has now been increased, and that cant be good either
That makes so much sense. Reducing the oil pressure to a turbo sounds like a poor solution to get rid of the smoke, something that should not happen to begin with.