Can someone explain what this is and how its done.. Tried searching... no results

 

Pull the fuel pump fuse, then try starting the engine a few times. This is done to get oil to a brand new turbo when starting it up first time after install.

 

Just pull your injector clips or fuel pump fuse(whichever is easier), then turn over the car till you see oil coming out of the return line. You just wanna make sure your getting oil to your turbo and to make sure you have a little in their when you start the car.

 

you dont have to do it.
I would say its more of a safety thing to make sure oil is actually reaching the turbo.
but its not necessary

 

just disconnect your oil return and place it into a container. start your car. have a friend watch the oil return. once they see oil shutoff your car. you now have piece of mind that oil is getting to your turbo.

 

it's always a good idea to insure lubrication to the turbocharger before your engine starts forcing it to spin without lubrication for any amount of time.

 

well since when u start the car the turbo doesnt really spool at all. just have a friend hold the wheel while the car is warming up

 

thx guys!!

 

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You're not serious, are you?

 

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I've seen a couple people do this. I'm about to prime mine and thats how the packing list with the turbo say to do it.

 

no way in hell i'm putting my fingers in my turbo. i prefer to have 10 fingers

 

i did it

 

some one else JUST asked this question...it wouldve popped up if you searched. lmao

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=578610

 

priming the turbo is for the weak

 

If you stick your piece of wood (at least do it right!) in the stopped blades before cranking it, there shouldn't be enough energy from the motor to move it. The problem with not disabling combustion is that when you prime the turbo, its usually after in some way removing oil from the motor. You'll be priming the motor as well when you do this. If the whole motor was primed completely, then an instant 50-80psi of cold oil at one end of a -4an line would reach the other end in a second. It usually takes a few seconds to even register pressure when you expletive with the oil system, so...

 

it also clears out whatevers in the line out before you connect it to the turbo. its good to do it what you are making your own lines, helps gets all the metal shavings out.

 

u can easily stop a turbo from spinning at idle, ive done it before with mine, even though its spinnin fast, theres really not much force behind it, if u push in on the middle part of the blades for a sec. itll slow down and stop and sometimes on mine, itll barely even start spinnin again after being released, one u rev it up a big as my man from napolean dynamite would say...........FOGET ABOUT ITTTTT, unless u want a roundhouse kick to the fingers. literally

 

MY Freaking god people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swear none of you read this site, why come on here even if your not going to read. There are countless threads on this and here is what it comes down to.

When you get a turbo new, the manufacturer puts some oil in the middle, when you got the turbo, didn't some oil drip out of it??????

When you get a turbo used, it was fed oil wasn't it, when they took it off their car, it doesn't magically dissappear.

All you have to do is start the car, oil pressure will build in like a second, done.....

I do suggest though, holding the oil feed to turbo into a bucket or something just to make sure oil is flowing and any crap in the feed line was pused out.

 

Drop a capfull in the oil feed area before hooking it all up.

Start as normal and have @ it..