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Old Dec 26, 2015 | 06:16 PM
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Hey guys. First of all I'd like to say happy holidays! Hope everyone got to spend time with family. I was blessed enough to make it home to Illinois even though I'm stationed in Texas. Anyways on to the question at hand... I finally made it home to drive my car for the first time in months. Took it for a quick spin around the block and everything seemed normal. Pulled out onto the back roads and opened it up a bit and still smooth as silk (small puff of black smoke but to be expected after sitting for 6 months) turn around and start to head home and jump on it a little bit again. Afterwards I do a pretty hard downshift into 2nd and notice a good cloud of bluish white smoke coming out of the back. Quickly pull over and investigate. When I pop the hood I find the dipstick popped up about 2 inches or so and oil had sprayed all over the passenger side header which is where it was smoking from. Found it odd as this has never happened before. Try to wipe up what I can and put dipstick back in after checking oil level. On the way back home I try a few hard downshift again to see if the problem re-occurs and sure enough it does. Pull over again and put dipstick back in again and baby it home the rest of the way. After further investigation I see that the last time the car was worked on (dad dropped it off at the shop who built it while I was gone for a few other odd and end things that needed to be taken care off) the guy who worked on it ran a t-fitting from the passenger side valve cover to the hose running from the catch can and the valley cover. Car was not like this before and this is the only thing that's changed since I drove it last. Wondering if this current pcv setup has something to do with popping the dipstick? From what I understand the valve cover vent should be ran to a fresh air source? Any insight would be appreciated. Attached a few pictures to help



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Old Dec 26, 2015 | 07:23 PM
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The main problem is your catch can setup connection.

-The valley cover goes to the can and the other side of the can goes to the side of intake to creat a vaccum.
-The pass side VC vent should be connect to a fresh air supply, wich is on the top of a stock ls6 tb.Since you use a Fast setup your need to either connect it to the rubber bellow or the duct.
So fresh air comes in by the pass side vc and the pressure and oil fume are vent thru the can with the vaccum vreate by the intake.

Right now your pulling vaccum from the valley cover and pass side cover...no good at all.

My old setup:




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Old Dec 26, 2015 | 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by always faster
The main problem is your catch can setup connection.

-The valley cover goes to the can and the other side of the can goes to the side of intake to creat a vaccum.
-The pass side VC vent should be connect to a fresh air supply, wich is on the top of a stock ls6 tb.Since you use a Fast setup your need to either connect it to the rubber bellow or the duct.
So fresh air comes in by the pass side vc and the pressure and oil fume are vent thru the can with the vaccum vreate by the intake.

Right now your pulling vaccum from the valley cover and pass side cover...no good at all.

My old setup:



Thanks! I knew something wasn't right with it, just wasn't exactly sure how I should route them. Think you cleared it up though
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Old Dec 26, 2015 | 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by always faster
The main problem is your catch can setup connection.

-The valley cover goes to the can and the other side of the can goes to the side of intake to creat a vaccum.
-The pass side VC vent should be connect to a fresh air supply, wich is on the top of a stock ls6 tb.Since you use a Fast setup your need to either connect it to the rubber bellow or the duct.
So fresh air comes in by the pass side vc and the pressure and oil fume are vent thru the can with the vaccum vreate by the intake.

Right now your pulling vaccum from the valley cover and pass side cover...no good at all.

My old setup:



Looks like you drilled yours and glued in a threaded plastic bung of some sort?
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Old Dec 26, 2015 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by slow01z06
Looks like you drilled yours and glued in a threaded plastic bung of some sort?
Some choose to drill a hole in the rubber bellow and use a barb fitting.
I choose to drill a hole in the duct,used a rubber grommet and sealed it up with urethane/rtv.

Each method is good but mine is cleaner(personnal taste)
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