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Install went smoothly except for trying to locate the "extra" parts I needed.....
BTW, this catch can is huge!! I thought it would be smaller.
It's kinda ghetto-rigged, but it works [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Those of you with a catch can, How often do you drain yours and how much fluid is normally drained???
Here's a link to the pics:
http://community.webshots.com/user/boostedex
That doesn't look that big to me...
The install looks pretty clean from what I can see.
Looks clean, nice job Tim!
I don't think that you have to drain the catch can at all, as you are running an open setup. There isn't vacuum to suck the oil out of your engine in an open setup.
in over a year, i've never drained a single drop from mine. I wanted to keep mine pressurized so I did plumb it back into the intake, but added a bit of extra hose in the hope that the extra oil fumes would condense in the hose. Totally pointless, the hose hasnt even darkened from oil passing through it. There isn't any. I'm tempted to pull it out as it has never made even the slightest difference.
I have a different situation in that before I was using a crank case breather filter and it was getting soaked with oil and actually spraying oil all over injectors 3 and 4, my strut tower bar, and the back of my oil cap. So I wanted to get the catch can mainly to keep the oil from being sprayed onto the above items.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by BoostedEX:
I have a different situation in that before I was using a crank case breather filter and it was getting soaked with oil and actually spraying oil all over injectors 3 and 4, my strut tower bar, and the back of my oil cap. So I wanted to get the catch can mainly to keep the oil from being sprayed onto the above items.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
If I'm understanding it correctly, you are replacing the breather filter with a hose going into the catch can to catch the oil that used to come out of the breather? That almost sounds like your PCV valve is not functioning correctly, as that's where your crankcase vapor would normally go. Crankcase vapor will escape to the least restricted path, which normally the PCV due to the aid of vaccuum. When the PCV is clogged, the crankcase pressure will escape to the next least restrictive path = valve cover vent or worst, gasket seals!