Thread: turbo timers

providing you have a Turbo...


yes

illegal in some states now i believe....

and generally a useless bit of crude anyway with modern oils being what they are....

if you have been working the truck hard, drive the thing steadily for the last 500 yards and it will have cooled down enough anyway 99.9% of the time IMHO.

no doubt the purists will disagree....

Oils have improved, turbos have improved, not as necessaery as it once might have been.

And it depends on the type of driving you do. And servicing.

I've never bothered with one, & the disco had 310,000 kms on it when I sold it. Without a turbo problem or failure.

I don't worry about the turbo round town. Just shut it off.

But on the freeway, I do back off early & let it cool down before stopping at the servo. Or back off right on thr 80 kph sign & let it cool down before the next stop.

I've only got one set of lights betwen me & the F3 when getting home. If that lights' green, I do idle in the driveway for a few minutes.

Thats the only precuation I take.

Regards
Max P

What Inc said. Because you can have the key out (steering locked) and the engine will still run, they are not legal. Having said that, I don't think you would get defected for having one.

If they are that necessary wouldn't the highly paid engineers at Landrover had them fitted as OME stuff

Hi jx2mad, I use to manufacture them and supply them to the trade but we stop making them about 6 or 7 years ago.

Besides the points raised above, you may find your insurance company will not be impressed if you have one fitted to your vehicle.

Now days, as pointed out above, they are pretty well useless and all they achieve is a waste of fuel.

Cheers

Originally Posted by incisor

illegal in some states now i believe....

and generally a useless bit of crude anyway with modern oils being what they are....

if you have been working the truck hard, drive the thing steadily for the last 500 yards and it will have cooled down enough anyway 99.9% of the time IMHO.

no doubt the purists will disagree....

Much better is a "Turbo Saver" which is a hydraulic accumulator fitted in the oil supply line to the turbo with a t-piece & a check valve. When you start and run the engine the accumulator gradually fills with oil, and, when you shut down, forces the oil through the still spinning shaft and bearings of the turbo. I have made and fitted several to trucks using hydraulic cylinders from earth moving equipment. Small cylinders from Bobcat 4 in 1 buckets would be enough for a small engine like an LR's.

Nope they wouldnt have... (bloody ford engineers) they cost money to put in and save money on engine wear...

They dont come standard in R series Macks, Unimogs, Subaru WRX's or half a dozen other leading makes of vehicles...yet all of them somewhere in their manuals suggest (and Im paraphrasing not quoting)

"Turbo life will be extended if you allow the engine to Idle for 30 seconds prior to startup and shutdown." Except in the case of a Mack which under the little red needled gauge that says Pyrometer has a little plaque that reads "Severe turbo damage will occour if temp exceeds 650Deg C during operation or 200 degrees prior to shut down."