Elite Engineering PCV Catch Can Install
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Elite Engineering PCV Catch Can Install
Today I recieved my Blue EE PCV Catch Can and installed it. It took all of about 45 minutes. It was a very simple process with the great instructions provided by EE. Here are the pics of the install:
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You did your thread an absoloute justice w/the pics and the set up! Very clear and comprehensive and no one could possibly even come close to messing up an install.
My thumbs up to you! The best I've seen so far!!!
Thanks,Matt
My thumbs up to you! The best I've seen so far!!!
Thanks,Matt
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Originally Posted by madmatt9471
You did your thread an absoloute justice w/the pics and the set up! Very clear and comprehensive and no one could possibly even come close to messing up an install.
My thumbs up to you! The best I've seen so far!!!
Thanks,Matt
My thumbs up to you! The best I've seen so far!!!
Thanks,Matt
Thanks. I 've only learned to do this form fellow forum members. I just pass it along in hopes that it might make it easier for the next guy. I learned a lot from similiar posts so I thought that I would just pass along the favor.
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Originally Posted by madmatt9471
You did your thread an absoloute justice w/the pics and the set up! Very clear and comprehensive and no one could possibly even come close to messing up an install.
My thumbs up to you! The best I've seen so far!!!
Thanks,Matt
My thumbs up to you! The best I've seen so far!!!
Thanks,Matt
Good work thanks!Jarad
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Nice pictorial on the install. Looks good. 
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You will have nothing in your catch can.
I know because I just put mine in and checked it......The hose gets kinked where it bends from the PCV valve and it collapses. Then your dipstick will get "popped" out from the crankcase pressure.
They should have supplied an elbow or something or preformed hose that wont get sucked shut.
I know because I just put mine in and checked it......The hose gets kinked where it bends from the PCV valve and it collapses. Then your dipstick will get "popped" out from the crankcase pressure.
They should have supplied an elbow or something or preformed hose that wont get sucked shut.
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Originally Posted by gpracer1
You will have nothing in your catch can.
I know because I just put mine in and checked it......The hose gets kinked where it bends from the PCV valve and it collapses. Then your dipstick will get "popped" out from the crankcase pressure.
They should have supplied an elbow or something or preformed hose that wont get sucked shut.
I know because I just put mine in and checked it......The hose gets kinked where it bends from the PCV valve and it collapses. Then your dipstick will get "popped" out from the crankcase pressure.
They should have supplied an elbow or something or preformed hose that wont get sucked shut.
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Originally Posted by gpracer1
You will have nothing in your catch can.
I know because I just put mine in and checked it......The hose gets kinked where it bends from the PCV valve and it collapses. Then your dipstick will get "popped" out from the crankcase pressure.
They should have supplied an elbow or something or preformed hose that wont get sucked shut.
I know because I just put mine in and checked it......The hose gets kinked where it bends from the PCV valve and it collapses. Then your dipstick will get "popped" out from the crankcase pressure.
They should have supplied an elbow or something or preformed hose that wont get sucked shut.
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Its the direction of the PCV valve that sucks. It points away from the can so the line has to make a 180 (almost) to point to the can. I am just going to buy a plastic elbow. My hose was sucked shut. I checked the can for the first time and it was like BRAND NEW inside. Not even any residue. Thats when I started it up and noticed the hose.
Look at his pic in the first post. You can see the line bent and collapsing.
Look at his pic in the first post. You can see the line bent and collapsing.
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On my install the bottom of the can rests on one of the heater hoses coming out ofthe side of ther water pump and i cant unscrew the bottom half to check/empty unless I remove the bracket from the head and lift the whole thing up. It barely fit hitting that hose, so im gonna need to somehow change the bracket geometry to move it up about 3/4" an inch.
Last edited by briann510; Dec 9, 2006 at 11:08 AM.
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Originally Posted by gpracer1
Its the direction of the PCV valve that sucks. It points away from the can so the line has to make a 180 (almost) to point to the can. I am just going to buy a plastic elbow. My hose was sucked shut. I checked the can for the first time and it was like BRAND NEW inside. Not even any residue. Thats when I started it up and noticed the hose.
Look at his pic in the first post. You can see the line bent and collapsing.
Look at his pic in the first post. You can see the line bent and collapsing.
Maybe you could use a small preformed coolant hose, like the one that goes from the throttle body to the radiator, assuming the rubber is compatible with being exposed to oil/fuel in place of coolant.
From the pictures, it appears that another option would be to shorten the hose from the engine to the PCV valve. That should make the bend to the catch can less of and angle. Closer to a 90 deg. bend instead of a 120 to 180 deg.
Last edited by TEXHAWK0; Dec 9, 2006 at 11:15 AM.
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From: Longview Texas
Originally Posted by briann510
On my install the bottom of the can rests on one of the heater hoses coming out ofthe side of ther water pump and i cant unscrew the bottom half to check/empty unless I remove the bracket from the head and lift the whole thing up. It barely fit hitting that hose, so im gonna need to somehow change the bracket geometry to move it up about 3/4" an inch.
Would it be better to move it up, or just make a spacer for between the bracket and the head to move the catch can forward?
A spacer and longer bolts might be easier than trying to make another bracket.
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Originally Posted by TEXHAWK0
Would it be better to move it up, or just make a spacer for between the bracket and the head to move the catch can forward?
A spacer and longer bolts might be easier than trying to make another bracket.
A spacer and longer bolts might be easier than trying to make another bracket.
I wont be checking it that often anyway, so I guess ill just deal with unscrewing the bracket and lifting whole can up to unscrew it when I do.
Last edited by briann510; Dec 9, 2006 at 06:57 PM.
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Originally Posted by briann510
On my install the bottom of the can rests on one of the heater hoses coming out ofthe side of ther water pump and i cant unscrew the bottom half to check/empty unless I remove the bracket from the head and lift the whole thing up. It barely fit hitting that hose, so im gonna need to somehow change the bracket geometry to move it up about 3/4" an inch.
Same here. Needs to be 1 inch higher.