A friend at work has a turbo save on his truck , I was looking into a system that keep oiling the turbo after engine shutdown and he told me about the turbo saver. anyone here have one on their truck?

 

Thought the turbo saver was just an electronic device that notified the user when it's save to shutdown, usually while monitoring EGT electronically. Don't have a clue how one would plumb into the engine oil supply to keep oil flowing through the turbo only.

 

2 different systems. the turbo saver shuts don't the truck when its safe even after you pull the key out. based on temps or time you set. the other system turns on a electric oil pump when you shut off the truck and pumps oil to the turbo for a set time.

 

I would just wait to shut the truck off myself, but I am pretty old school. I also try not to flog it too bad soon before I'm going to shut it off.

Red

 

I was thinking about this when i was remote mounting my oil pressure sender. If you used a little accumulator like a bladder ttank for a house it would store oil pressure against a bladder when running and slowly send pressure back through the rear main port some probably to the turbo and some down and back to the rear main bearing. You could just use a small say 16 ounce tank with a port on the bottom, and it’d be air bound and act as a bladder with just the air then pressurize the oil back through the same port that filled it, the rear main port. Not sure how much resistance there is on he main bearing vs the turbo bearing

 

All this BS for a crappy stock turbo that the rebuild kit is under 100$ for and don't really fail that often?

 

^^^^^ +1; almost 10 years on five forums, and I haven't seen exactly a tsunami of threads about turbo damage due to oil starvation after shutdown. Dude who used to live next door had a delayed engine shut-off in his Subaricer; I just sorta trusted that he had a good parking brake, since he obviously couldn't park the car in gear.

 

Waste of money, these turbos last 150-200k in stock form, damage isn't from shutting down. I don't know how man cummins guys believe in that crap as well.


No offense intended... just another leak point, system to fail, and ware of money imo

 

they put a preluber pump on the 88 when the turbo was put on.
can't really say if it made a difference or not, but the truck now has a little under 500,000 miles on it and has never been apart except for glow plugs, injectors, and injector pumps.