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Re: Oil catch can / plumbing...

Subject: Re: Oil catch can / plumbing...
by Schrade on 2016/4/18 18:31:06

It's being pulled through twin PCV lines hc - and it's a LOT of oil. I got syn 30 weight, and lighter oil more readily pulls into the PCV than 40 weight.

Matt - it's really too much oil to have it not dump automatically somehow. You'd be surprised to see the volume.

Designers likely had it in mind for extra protection, for the record-setting run in '90.

Brian - are the 2 cans in parallel (doesn't look like they're in series at all there). Or are they completely separate? Hard to tell by the diagram there...

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hcbph wrote:
Found a little blurb on preoilers here:
http://www.pre-lube-it-or-lose-it.com/how_it_works.html

Just to explain maybe a little more of what I was saying, it does kind of sound similar in basic operation. Biggest difference I see is where you get the oil from in the first place that goes into the can.

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