Cobez
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Can anyone explain it step by step? Its still confusing me lol
Dave what did you do with the drain line at the bottom
Touch wood ... its been dry of oil for all the services I've done.
Can you clarify this for me - your catch can has not caught any oil, ever?
It's obviously possible with a gentle driving style, but at some point some revs are going to have to happen, oil heats up ... sorry, I'm just a little surprised!
Capped it with a rubber grommet I got from somewhere I can't recall.
With the new washable filter I plan to remove it with each service & clean it so I'll drain the can manually each service.
Touch wood ... its been dry of oil for all the services I've done.
Can you clarify this for me - your catch can has not caught any oil, ever?
It's obviously possible with a gentle driving style, but at some point some revs are going to have to happen, oil heats up ... sorry, I'm just a little surprised!
There's been no pooled oil laying in the bottom where the drain is Tony. All seems to have been captured by the scrubber filter so its doing the job.
Didn't help save my bloody timing chain though ...
I would of thought that the filter is doing it job and removing the junk from the vapour and returning the now "cleaned" vapour back to the engine, BUT i would still think that some oil should be in the bottom of the can after all isnt it why its called a "catch can" not a filter??
The whole goal of the catch can is to catch as much oil as it possibly can from the exhaust stream, removing it from the gas entering the intake (yes, more bloody exhaust gas going into the intake, but I've bitched about that before too). If yours isn't catching much oil at all, then either you're not getting much oil going out the breather or the catch can isn't doing its job at all.
If you have some stuff in there like scourer material or such, then it would be catching most of what comes out and you have not had a lot of oil depart from the PCV at all - which means your engine is probably staying quite cool, it's not being driven hard at all, and if someone needs a replacement motor they would be doing themselves a favour by looking under YOUR bonnet first - keep the car locked up!
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