Puffwagon's Territory Adventures

[Puffwagon]

Last night I drained the bong water from the catch can. There was a good 600mL of water in there and a couple hundred mL of oil slurry. It didn't take long for the farker to fill up hey, only half a dozen tanks of E85 I reckon. I guess I'll have to start sucking it out every couple of weeks or so, so the intake doesn't get filthy.

[biddie_fiddler]

Is yours the kind with a drain tap at the bottom? Might be handy if you have to drain it often!  

[Puffwagon]

Nah no tap on it, I use one of these to give it the suck

[k31th]

those are bloody expensive for a simple hand pump & bottle haha, but certainly a useful item.

[Puffwagon]

Except I paid $100 less than that

[Slowxr6t]

How important do you think the suck is? I talked to Brad at atomic and he told me to drill out the holes in rocker cover from 10mm to at least 12mm. I removed the oil splash guards and drilled the holes out to 14mm from memory and re-rivited the splash guards in and had Earl's threaded fittings welded onto top of rocker cover and run 90 degree Earl's bends with hose to catch can that I can empty or just let it run onto road. Mine was just catching a yellow piss like liquid which is just condensation. So I deleted pcv and breather to run them both to can.

[Puffwagon]

It is 100% necessary to empty your catch can. Mine is plumbed into and picked up by the intake pipe, so when it gets full it sucks the sh*t through my intake tract. I wasn't joking when I said I need to remove and clean my intercooler.

 

Letting it go on the road is going to create a slipping hazard for yourself and others. There will be oil in the catch can, even if most of it is water.

[Slowxr6t]

Imho the amount that comes out onto the road over the distance you travel is minute, but yea I spose if you drive a similar path each time there might be a slippery line up the road lol. The liquid you see spitting out car exhausts in town must be  a similar substance surely but burnt.

[biddie_fiddler]

3 hours ago, Slowxr6t said:

empty or just let it run onto road

Sounds like something that wouldn't be allowed at a race track  

[Puffwagon]

Nothing comes out until it's full, then when you floor it, it sends blow by into the can and the can blasts liquid (oil and water) out the open hole. I tried this the other day to see if the catch can was full, now I have an oily stain on my bonnet and windscreen wiper. Even if you look at @Tom Tucker's recent picture, you'll see that if he didn't empty it, it would eventually flow out of the top and leak under his front tire or thereabouts.