Idling an engine
Ok all; I am not a mechanic, and I didn't stay at any hotel/motel last night. After reading a post in "Begining RVing" concerning oil change and idling, most of the people said that idling for more...
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riven1950 wrote:down home wrote:
On gas engines with turbos, I will let it idle five minutes too. Don't care what pc says. I burned up the bearings, by using semi synthetic oil and shutting off engine on a really cranked up turbo engine years ago.
Are you saying you would idle a F150 eco for 5 minutes before shutting down?
Perhaps the better idea would be an oil temp gauge right after the turbo and a pryometer.
Otherwise it is just guessing as to time and a safe idea to idle it a minute or so.
I haven't hear or read anything about failuers of the turbos on the F150 other than initially they had a design life of 150,000 miles.
