Oil Prelube system or Oil breather

[Jimlah]

Looking for some advice for prolonging the life of my engine. I have seen some prelube systems for Vipers, but they dont seem to be very previlant. Anyone using a preluber? Thoughts?

I have also been looking into the Oil breather sytems from our local vendors.

Looking for your thoughts and experiences with these sytems. Is one better then the other, can I use both?

I drive my truck daily, but there are long periods (6 months) that I dont drive it while I am deployed. Any help is appriciated.

 

[500snakz]

A pre-oiler would be really good for the extended period pre start. Eliminate the dry start. Thats where most of your wear will come from. Just my .02...

 

[Bone]

I use an Accusump and been working extremely well. Extra 3 quarts of oil. Dry starting, launching and cornering protection. Some evidence to doubling the life of your engine.

Crack or break your oil pan, and it will give you 30-60 seconds of protection.

Inexpensive system and easy install. Cosmetically dresses up the engine compartment.

I believe on person on this forum or the other forum had an issue with it. Personally, I don't see how? It is electrically and mechanically closed, any electric failure would shut it off and mechanically shut the valve. But you would have to find and talk to him, or search the forum. I can drive all day with it off or on. Supplemental 3 - 3.5 quarts. Makes for a larger oil change however.

 

[Alberta-SRT]

http://www.vtcoa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11084&highlight=accusump

Hope this works..if not do a search for Accusump failure, it was Cardude that lost an engine.

 

[Prof]

Sean Roe had a pre-oiler on his GTS...maybe a call to him would give you some insight.

 

[Bone]

http://www.vtcoa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11084&highlight=accusump

Hope this works..if not do a search for Accusump failure, it was Cardude that lost an engine.

I have read that thread multiple times and still can't deduce what actually failed to cause an engine failure. I didn't want to shoot down his post either since he was having big troubles.

First off there is no pump, it is a (hydro) pneumatic system. Very simple system, very few parts.

EPC valve

Electric Pressure Valve = EPC

The valve that they use to the engine is mechanically held closed, and electrically held open. An electric failure will auto shut it off. If the valve disintegrated, the pressure would remain the same as the engine pressure, no more, no less. Now, what could have happened is a leak in the line. However, they use the same lines as Stinker uses in his oil lines. High quality large Stainless Steel Braided Hose. More likely would have been an installation error installing these, once again unlikely but possible.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...sg=AFQjCNFqXKFe9HGEydb5_7DMDtzCCjwT4A&cad=rja

That is me...engine blew because the oil poured out of the engine. I did not keep everyone posted because I was trying to work it out with Accusump (as you can see they didn't response for six weeks). When the engine blew up the I had no idea the oil pressure was low. I was looking at the oil temp, engine temp, and the road. When the check engine light went off we pulled over...but that was too late, the engine had already went boom. As the guy at Accusump said, the check engine light does not go off until the oil pressure drops below 15 psi for 5 seconds. I never knew the oil pressure was the problem until we were stopped and oil was pouring out of the front end.

. Fact is the engine blew and smoke rolled out the back before we even knew anything was wrong. I guess my extra sensory preception was a little off that day. 4K in rpms needs at least 40 psi of oil pressure. At some point it dipped below that and the engine went blow. I deleted the thread early on because I wanted to work things out with Canton and not blast them on the boards. The volume of oil you saw running out of the failed valve was before the valve was even under pressure; the truck was not running during the video clip.

 

[Jimlah]

I saw that Cardude's post about catastropic failure of his engine, but I also hear lots of good things about the systems. I'm not talking specifically about one brand or another, just looking for some information about the system as a whole.

Is it overkill for our trucks? More of a trackday sort of upgrade?