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Originally Posted by Mitsumark
Ok I'm gonna try running the unit in the link.Notice the drain valve on the bottom of the unit..Would it work if I installed the unit inline and left the dump valve open full time and running a dump hose back into the oil pan or valve cover?If this is possible I can always tap the pan for a fitting.This would stop the need to constantly drain the separator as the oil would cycle right back into the engine.Or am I pipe dreaming?
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Some sort of dump valve is something I've considered as well. A valve that's CLOSED while vacuum is pulling, and allowing drainage when the motor is off.
I began thinking on this too, when I noticed oil - CLEAN oil, POOLED in the plenum vacuum INLET, after having to pull the plenum after just half a dozen Closed Loop cycles, following the 'Top End Resto', that I just finished after the holidays.
Either cycling the oil BACK to the CC, OR, filtering it up front.
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Originally Posted by Schrade
So if the oil separator, that most put in front of the plenum inlet (or SOMEwhere between the twin PCV's and the plenum inlet), allows oil to separate into the separator can, how will it stop oil from being vaporized from the crankcase, and entering into the ... separator?
Seems to me, that the only thing a separator will do, is prevent oil from being pulled INTO the plenum. IF the separator is emptied on a regular basis...
This is why I entertained the idea of running the PCV plumbing FROM into the plenum behind the TB, TO in front of the air filter.
Never mind that vacuum would be insufficient; that's not the question here...........
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I'm told (by Dom, I think, or Marc), that not enough vacuum can be had, if routed up to the AF housing. Q: HOW MUCH vacuum IS necessary to keep a purge on the PCV???
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Still thinking on it here. Even CLEAN oil will foul the burn...
Another thing I'm thinking on - is some sort of small lawn mower filter in the line. That would require frequent cleaning, based on what I saw after half a dozen CL cycles. I don't know where I'd put it, with new painted PCV plumbing that I prefer to NOT hack.
But keeping a clean burn is paramount. ESPECIALLY since total new exhaust is about to go in here.........................................