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1. Oh the e.p.a would love see this
2. you turned off stevie nicks edge of seventeen for that garbage!?
3. blew the turbo on my dads 7.3 once.. 150 miles home burnt like 3 gallons of diesel oil. haha up hills it smoked so bad 
4. So It wouldn't be possible to have some sort of oil to add in a tank that goes to a turbo and have a turbo air cooled?
5. To lube the turbine shaft and bearings, as well as offer some heat exchanging (cooling) to take place. All turbochargers have an oil supply and return to sump lines.
6. The question wasn't a question of bucking authority. If you radio in and they tell you to limp the vehicle then you have to. If you disobey direct movement orders they can fire you. Its their truck and if they want to blow the engine then thats their prerogative not the drivers and he should do what will not lose him his job. vehicles with blown turbos are limped back all the time(buses, triaxels, unladen semis...) if it was my personal truck then forget the load i need my engine. 
7. Nobody with any intellect cares about your damned asphalt. Seriously, if a car accident is caused by this idiocy, the guaranteed lawsuits for gross negligence and endangering the welfare of others on the highway that will surely follow will far exceed any monetary loss of some hot asphalt load. Labor, a new turbo, and possibly a new engine will always far exceed the cost of some lost asphalt also. Shit happens. You don't have to be a douche, and keep driving a smoke screen mess down the highway.
8. Right, he should endanger everyone else around him by continuing to drive?! What a foolish thing to say. Do you even think before you post comments? Every road has a shoulder. Pull over, put your hazard/4-ways/emergency flashers ON, and put your safety triangles out behind your rig. Then, get back in the goddamned cab and call/radio/whatever for assistance/help. The driver would be in NO danger at all. Ignorant fools like you really piss me off.
9. Right. There comes a point in every man's (person's) life where you just DON'T listen to some jackass "superior" position person and you do make the choices in life that you know are the correct ones. If nothing else, remember this: #1.) The "load" you are hauling is NEVER more important than the safety of other human lives around you. NEVER. #2.) That truck's engine is definitely worth more than some asphalt (or whatever) that's in the dump bed. The safest location for that truck is stopped.
10. Well, #1.) No way there's $100K of payload in that dump truck. And #2.) You blow the engine in that truck due to gross negligence, I got news for you... YOU'RE FIRED dumbass! #3.) Oh, and one last thing... the smoke he's needlessly spewing is creating an extremely dangerous visibility situation on the highway. If he causes anyone to get into a car accident, he'll be responsible and charged for that as well. JUST SAYIN'... Think about it.
11. I disagree with your decision to fire the driver. This same thing happened to me and the company I worked for was much more worried about loss product than the truck. Even though I knew what was happening to the truck, I was forced to continue driving to not lose the perishable load I was carrying and therefore be fired due to "driver error." He had probly already radioed his situation and was either told to roll until disabled or to pull over safely and there was no safe location to stop here. 
12. The best part about this video was finally figuring out which song had been stuck in my head for days... Edge of Seventeen 
13. Do you see a safe place for him to pull over and stop? I don't. If you would fire somebody for putting their personal safety first ahead of your truck then you're an asshole.
14. No that's just Cheech and Chong hauling gravel...no turbo failure in this video
15. $2000 is a pretty mild loss...
16. No, silicone for oiling.
17. No, the silicone wouldn't stay in place, and would most likely block the oiling ports. The bearing is a "plain bearing", not a roller bearing. Some turbos have roller bearings or "ball bearings" but nost big trucks don't In a plain bearing, the shaft of the turbo spins, but no part of the bearing spins. That's why you don't idle up a turbo diesel engine until your oil pressure has climbed and levelled off. The style of bearing in most truck turbos are similar to crank bearings in an engine.
18. You can't just stuff silicone? and doesn't the bearing move with shaft?
19. It needs oil to lubricate the bearing journals. Think of it like a crankshaft. It has bearings (smooth surfaces that the crank rides on) It needs oil to lubricate it so the metal parts don't actually touch. There is a thin film of oil between the crank and the bearings. Lose oil pressure, and your engine "spins a bearing" Same idea with a turbo, only MUCH higher RPM. in the 10's of thousands of RPM's at high boost. The oil keeps the bearing and shaft lubed to spin freely.
20. Why does a turbo need oil?