pcv replacement or catch tank?

[p fandango]

Never seen that cheers duane, now you got me thinking......££ how much you costed the pipes/tank/clips etc to be? could i just bore into my original catch tank for a 3rd inlet i think so lol

tbh mate i haven't even looked at prices for the pipe yet so no idea on overall cost, guess i should of thought about that before binning the PCV lol. I've not opened up the catch tank to see whats inside, aslong as theirs space i can't see why you can't make another inlet (i've got a spare 15mm T-piece if your interested)

[Jamest5r]

Cheers mate ive got a couple of spare pcv's if you need one

[p fandango]

Cheers mate ive got a couple of spare pcv's if you need one

thanks for the offer but i'm determind to get it bypassed. Been & ordered some stuff to get it going.

[p fandango]

The T-piece i'd already got to join the pipes.

The breather from the block is 27mm & i didn't fancy running pipe that big around the engine bay so ordered this to reduce it the same size as the other pipes

& got this to block up the sump return

so now i need a 28mm joiner to join the reducer to the block breather. A metre of 18mm pipe from the cam cover to the T-piece, & a couple of metres of 15mm for the block breather reducer to the T-piece, then to the catch tank. Then not forgetting the jubilee clips

[p fandango]

& just ordered the 28mm joiner LINK

so just the 15mm & 18mm pipe to sort, but looking at the prices that won't be for a while lol

[p fandango]

got the joiner & reducer thru, waiting on the 20mm bung (& alloy to make my throttle body adaptor). I've still not ordered any pipe they tho

[nobananas]

Why don't you just use 15mm copper tubing (or you can get 15mm CHROMED copper tubing !) to make up your pipework. It's much cheaper than silicone hosing. That's how I did mine when the original 'glass' pipework broke up on mine.

[cherry1809]

Why don't you just use 15mm copper tubing (or you can get 15mm CHROMED copper tubing !) to make up your pipework. It's much cheaper than silicone hosing. That's how I did mine when the original 'glass' pipework broke up on mine.

Coppers at around £4000 a ton at the minute, Probably cheaper to do it in silicon. LOL.

[p fandango]

Why don't you just use 15mm copper tubing (or you can get 15mm CHROMED copper tubing !) to make up your pipework. It's much cheaper than silicone hosing. That's how I did mine when the original 'glass' pipework broke up on mine.

it sounds like to much hard work, & i'll probably mess & change it about again in a few months anyway when i have a new idea lol

[p fandango]

the bung arrived, i need to buy some proper jubilee clips because the original won't do up quite enough to hold it




the plan, once i get some pipe lol

[danny-R]

pedro, could i pickle your brain for a sec please? see the bottom hole into the block..... i assume this is the bugger that tends to block/clog up, how far does it actually go into the block? when i replaced pcv and pipe work I thought i cleaned it out properly but obviously not, it felt about an inch or so till it's solid- does that sound about right?
cheers

danny

[Dangerous Dave]

pedro, could i pickle your brain for a sec please? see the bottom hole into the block..... i assume this is the bugger that tends to block/clog up, how far does it actually go into the block? when i replaced pcv and pipe work I thought i cleaned it out properly but obviously not, it felt about an inch or so till it's solid- does that sound about right?
cheers

Same on mine mate, goes in and the hits internal metal (possibly something to do with the crank) and there is a gap of about 10mm between the end of the hole and the metal.

[danny-R]

cheers bomb, that's how it seemed to me, as if it does a 90 degree bend up over.
i'm sure it was cleaned out correctly but i could be wrong. i'm even debating on leaving it now but the smoking issue is doing my head right in.
would i have to get a new inlet gasket btw.

many thanks

[Jamest5r]

What sort of smoking issue you got danny? im pretty up on this subject at the moment as i spent 4 weeks trying everything to sort mine out lol.

[danny-R]

well basically, if i sit stationary/idleing for a minute or so when i pull away= big puff of blue smoke.

could it be the return pipe on the turbo? this wouldn't explain why i lost a sh## load of oil from the dipstick though?

i'm stumped lol

[Volvostorm]

Have you cleaned out the other end of the pipes, where it connects to the big feed in to the turbo? The elbow there can get blocked too

[danny-R]

i just fitted the new pcv pipework, which is this elbow you speak of paul?

i'm definatley seeing the symtoms of blocked pcv though i think.

[Jamest5r]

Is your dip stick puffing like a train?, does the smoke clear on hard accleration but then come back more when on idle and what happens if you just leave it ticking over does some smoke start coming out?

[Volvostorm]

Look at the big pipe going from the airbox to the turbo, its got the two pipes coming from the PCV, also has an electrical connector on it

[danny-R]

Is your dip stick puffing like a train?, does the smoke clear on hard accleration but then come back more when on idle and what happens if you just leave it ticking over does some smoke start coming out?

not so much coming out the dipstick, but if you leave it a minute it will start smoking, then when you pull away you get a puff of smoke and it clears.

it only ever seems to happen when it's warm, and there's no smoke on start up.

cheers