Stock turbo Life expectancy

[DerekW]

Hey just bought a truck. she has 130K miles and bad bearings in the turbo-excess play and turbo sounds like crap. yes it whistles :-laf but it also has other noise which prompted inspection. What kind of mileage are you guys getting out of your stock turbos with mods similar to but not limited to:



AFE stage II

no SR

TS-MP8

quadzilla boost fooler

smarty

stock exhuast with cat delete and MBRP muffler







I know some of you will say swap for aftermarket but honestly I dont want another "transmission hawg". guess its time to pull the 3gen manifold and turbo off the other 04. 5 and put it on the new and go twins on the "hawg". but seriously how long is this gonna hold up on the daily driver we just bought??? the turbo to be installed has 70,322 miles.

 

[Cattletrkr]

Put juice in at 45K, swapped that for a Smarty about 4K ago. Been pushing high 30's at least for boost up every hill. Turbo is fine with no noise or excess play. Currently 196K+.

 

[WoodChuck]

I know it's a different turbo but I had 310k with no problems when I sold my first gen.

 

[Bob4x4]

Cummins engineers claim same life as engine... ... ..... Neither of my trucks have reached that point yet



Bob

 

[Grey Wolf]

Cummins engineers claim same life as engine... ... ..... Neither of my trucks have reached that point yet



Bob

I still have the original in my '93 too

 

[Grizzly]

Should be 300K plus, according to a Tech Rep.

 

[ColemanR]

Mine lasted 160k housing had a crack in it. My 97 was still fine at 389k when I sold it.

 

[jakprince]

It probably depends alot on if the driver looks out for it or not. If you run full throttle and shut down hot its not going to last too long.

 

[DerekW]

It probably depends alot on if the driver looks out for it or not. If you run full throttle and shut down hot its not going to last too long.

Thanks that makes me feel better about installing the turbo of my truck onto the girlfriends truck. Never had temp gauges on my truck but always got lip and sometime heated discussions for letting my truck run 3 to 10 minutes before shutting it down.

 

[MMeier]

I still have the original in my '93 too

X 2 at 148k miles. Had 161k on the stocker in the '03 with heavy use, still on shelf "in case" , or someone needs to buy one. Replaced it with a SPS 62/14 along with an ATS manifold.

 

[JDerbedrossian]

Cummins engineers claim same life as engine... ... ..... Neither of my trucks have reached that point yet



Bob

Bob how about the white dually with over 400,000 miles you worked on, that thing still had the stock turbo and it towed all its life.



Jake

 

[DerekW]

just curious what have you guys used in the past to hold the 6 individual gaskets in place when installing a exhuast manifold. when I changed the manifold on my truck I used crazy glue to hold the gaskets in place until i tightened the bolts. i was thinking that the crazy glue would burn off and retorque the manifold. anyone else got any better ideas or is this acceptable. ATS manifold isnt light and another set of hands is never available when its 20 degrees and windy.

 

[JCasper]

I know a guy who had 600,000+ on his 97 12-valve with the stock turbo when he sold it.



That truck pulled for it's whole life also.

 

[mberry]

just curious what have you guys used in the past to hold the 6 individual gaskets in place when installing a exhuast manifold. when I changed the manifold on my truck I used crazy glue to hold the gaskets in place until i tightened the bolts. i was thinking that the crazy glue would burn off and retorque the manifold. anyone else got any better ideas or is this acceptable. ATS manifold isnt light and another set of hands is never available when its 20 degrees and windy.

I put the top bolt in at the front and rear to hold the manifold in place but still loose. Then I went one port at a time with the others using the manifold bolts to hold the gaskets in place while I threaded the bolts in. Once I was done with the middle 4, I took the two at the front and rear out and just basically did the same thing as the others. Putting the bottom bolts in was very easy using one hand the thread the bolt and the other to align the gasket. It wasn't difficult at all once I got the manifold in place and I was doing it by myself.

 

[Bob4x4]

Bob how about the white dually with over 400,000 miles you worked on, that thing still had the stock turbo and it towed all its life.



Jake

Yup,

Rv hauler over 400k,origional turbo(600/610 truck) shaft still felt good but the maifold was cracked



Bob

 

[JHardwick]

I'm pushing 400k towing miles, and I've ran 3 different boxes on this truck since new.

 

[DerekW]

AFE stock airbox destroyed stock turbo explosion

Hey I pulled the truck down over the weekend and I found several different things.



1st off the silencer ring was removed from turbo and from of the turbo and compressor wheel was covered in black stuff.



2nd the turbo had about 1/16th-1/8th inch play on the compressor side. i spilt the turbo and left the exhuast in place and the turbine wheel had very slight play not hardly noticeable like the compressor side.



so i determined the compressor side is the problem and hunted down the source for the black stuff. I noticed the AFE stage had the black stuff on the filter and noted the filter was plugged up in the area near the headlight. turns out the stock airbox had some foam crap to seal the stock airbox to the fender and the foam was old and breaking down and getting sucked into the turbo. I peeled the foam and rotated the afe for now but I will be installing a new AFE filter and the turbo off my truck along with the ATS manifold from my truck to help with her fuel mileage and make way for twin turbos on my truck.



oh and when i went to put the turbo back in the truck i noticed aftermarket clamps that were on the truck werent clamping down on the hose off the turbo. upon further inspection of turbo black material (chewed stock airbox foam) was being spit out around the stock rubber boot. I didnt have the right size clamp sitting around so I just pulled the entire banks technicooler high ram setup from my truck. WOW what a difference. she has boost and flow now!!!!!











sorry to ramble on but i figured it might save yals stock turbo's