Ball Bearing Lifespan & Oil Coking Issues

a lot longer even if even if you're not committing a foul if you're not committing a foul there's extended longevity out of the ball bearing and um the only thing that gets in the way of that is ball bearing applications where there's not any water cooling present because you over about about a 12 to 18 month period there's enough oil coking inside the turbocharger that it actually coax and locks the ball bearing into place and it can't float in an oil film anymore this has an effect on the vibrations of the shaft and the rotor group because that oil film around the outside of the bearing that's now all hard coked oil that used to be a damper sleeve around the ball bearing cartridge okay so so as the rotor turned and as it spun and vibrated and the car jumped over dukes of hazard bridges that were out and stuff like that there was this little hydraulic film around the sleeve that damped the peaks off of the vibrations for the rotor group when that goes away and now all the vibrations for the ball bearing rotor group just get physically directly transmitted to the bearing housing the bearing where it goes like and they'll die pretty quick after that in the case of a ball bearing turbocharger you restrict the amount of oil that goes through the turbo charger so what you end up with is a frying pan with just a little bit of butter in it on the stove what is that what happens to that after a while if you leave it there too long you can't fry an egg anymore right it's all nasty you know well that's what the inside of the turbo ends up looking like when you can't run water to the turbocharger and you don't have a journal bearing full flow delivery of oil going through there that when you have a journal bearing style high volume of oil going through the cartridge it really helps keep the cartridge temperature down because that oil is cooling along with lubricating there's so much volume of that oil going through there that it takes a lot of the heat out of the turbo charger okay uh in cases where you have a ball bearing turbocharger with very limited oil delivery oil is kind of an enemy almost the ball bearing turbo chargers because if the ball is running around the race at a million miles an hour and if it if the race is flooded with oil that the ball wants to hydroplane it doesn't want to roll on the race anymore it's supposed to ski it was a skid and try to float you know it's just like going down the highway too fast with uh with with the wrong tires and…