Turbo Question

workin' diesel

factory tuned
Nov 13, 2010
630
0
0
Coalhust, AB Canada
I hate to ask this on a Duramax forum, but we have a Cummins Big Cam in one of our grinders at work that recintly lost the oil pump at wide open. So I have been getting ready to pull it out and noticed that the compressor wheel has play side to side and it seems to drag when I spin it by hand. Can i assume that the turbo is shot? Boss thinks that it ran for 3-4 minutes without oil in the upper end.
 

dirty_max

Member
Jan 27, 2013
815
2
18
eureka il
if it drags at all it would be a very good idea to not run that turbo again. but seeing as how it ran for so long with no oil pump, i would assume the turbo would be the least of your worries