Happend to me almost the same way. Pop neir full boost. I had run away neir 5000+ I’m in a auto and I neutral dropped at first sign to stall. runaway scared me so I have a shutoff valve now on a pull cable
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The only turbo failure I've had was funnily enough first seen as an EGT spike. I'm guessing because the turbine flow just got restricted. Boost drop and noise followed.
Mine had lost an oil line a week earlier which must have damaged the bearings. I drove around for a week and it all seemed good. Then almost exactly a week later at almost exactly the same piece of motorway the turbo gave me the finger.
I popped the wastegate arm off and drove home quietly on back roads. Turbo took a rebuild kit well and I'm still driving it over 15 years later.
Mine had lost an oil line a week earlier which must have damaged the bearings. I drove around for a week and it all seemed good. Then almost exactly a week later at almost exactly the same piece of motorway the turbo gave me the finger.
I popped the wastegate arm off and drove home quietly on back roads. Turbo took a rebuild kit well and I'm still driving it over 15 years later.
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Almost bolt in, and most would consider it an upgrade (I know KiwiDingo won't).
Shipped to you would be close to your $500 rebuild price.
Very slight oil and waterline line differences, but OEM parts are available.
Intake pipe to manifold would need a solution.
Exhaust will bolt up.
Decided to take the intake hose apart today just to inspect……no oil in the tube, some grime, a lot of grime on the outside of the pipe. I wiped it all down with 91% alcoho. I reached in with a gloved hand and didn’t feel any movement forward/back or side to side.
"Neutral drop to stall"? Is that a thing? Would drop to first and hit the brakes be the way to stall it?
4Ruster
2LT Sufferer
Yeah in a manual you would just slam it into 5th and hope your clutch doesn't slip. Automatic though you're s*** outta luck.
When I was screwing around with my pump I would always have my hubs locked in 4hi in 5th ready to drop the clutch if it did something weird. I have trust issues with my truck hehe
4th is usually stronger.
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That's from the crank case vent. Not the turbo.
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You all need to take a breather
Catastrophic turbo failures are exceedingly rare.
Catastrophic turbo failures are exceedingly rare.
Is this an aspiration joke?!
Also, seems tiny turbo failures can adequately destroy an engine... are they also exceedingly rare? A $500 rebuild at 300k km doesnt seem foolhardy.
Solutions for crankcase breather tube?
I'll bet they all do it, but my crancase breather tube, which simply vents downward the ground from the engine, drips small amounts of oil. In my effort to make her oil-tight, I'm thinking of ways to prevent this. Would I be causing a venting problem if I attach a foot of rubber hose, then...
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bj70bc: thank you for prompting attending to this wee but worthwhile project. Good for all.
The thread sums up that the vent gas should go into the void. Its corrosive acidic gas and oily unpleasantness.
"The solution to polution is dilution."
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A rebuild isn't my point
It's everyone clutching their purse and running to check their turbos because I posted a photo of my turbo. Which by the way I haven't touched yet.
This forum has a sky is falling herd mentality where 1 person has an issue and everyone all of a sudden needs to verify that issue doesn't exist. Regardless of how rare the issue.
Can a turbo fail and kill an engine? Sure.
Have I owned numerous diesels with 300k+ miles on stock turbos, yes.
I stand by my statement. A catastrophic turbo failure is rare. Damaged fins almost always come from something entering the intake not from wear. When they do come from wear it was from years of neglect that left to shaft play and compressor to housing contact.
You use of the word 'neglect' implies there is PM that can be done?
It IS pretty wild that folks heed advice and wish to not fall prey to problems experienced by others. Some people's kids, huh!
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There is heeding advice and there is panic.
A rare issue is not cause to run out and check. Something. Especially given no symptoms.
Example. I had a break caliper bolt come loose. And the next 5 replies were dudes ordering OEM caliper bolts to replace theirs.
A turbo can be neglected and abused. Abrupt shut down without proper idle time. Dirty engine oil. Improper air filtration.
All the ways people neglect an engine will effect a turbos health. They share the same oil. The same air.
Shutting a turbo vehicle down before egt's have reached an appropriate level can cause oil coking on the bearings.
4Ruster
2LT Sufferer
Maybe you're just the ih8mud pope, everyone blindly following you
Well, being that the HDJ81 that I own is about to turn a young 34 years old, I just want to be sure about potential issues. I have never owned a turbo diesel before so all of this is new to me and therefore, with no experience, I am learning as I go.
mudgudgeon
Resident galah
Why not buy just a new cartridge and install yourself?
The twenty pounds of cast iron probably wont need replaced.
The twenty pounds of cast iron probably wont need replaced.
