Originally Posted by
Enthalpic
Hopefully it's just a leak or the rough pump.
Never seen a turbo fail.
Yeah it was a valve - slide valve the opens the door to the deep vacuum analyzer chamber. Every time the turbo is off I worry about it b/c it's a $20,000 part and it's been running almost constantly for 10 years.
But yeah they're pretty tough.
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