Is it safe to install an oil catch can?

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Well, it FEELS like a stone, but is really foam. A Dremel or even a steak knife will go right through it. Then, just sand the remainer off the stem, which will extend down into the jar a little...

Piece o'Cake!
 
Alrighty, I got r done. I have a catch can now!!! I'm already on a second set of hose though. I tried the strongest braided clear PVC hose and it still got real soft from engine bay heat. I upgraded to Napa 3/8 heater hose. INDESTRUCTIBLE! For anyone else that may do this, I highly recommend getting 90 degree 1/4 thread to 3/8 npt fittings for each end of the filter as it will make hose routing so much easier. I sat there for a while scratching my head with straight fittings and said forget this!

I'll have a picture up as soon as Cingular's network comes back on line.

Upon driving it, the car feels like it has more low rpm throttle response but that's likely the placebo effect. However, the pinging at low rpms seems to be reduced a bit.
 
Well, if you say so. I don't think this is an immediate-benefit kinda mod, it's actually lesser-activity mod. As in, a year or two down the road, you won't be here rummaging through the search engines looking for intake and throttle-body cleaning schemes. You won't be trying to boil this goo off your piston-tops, or trying to figure out why your throttle plate is gooey. Maybe you'll extend your oxygen sensor lifespan a few tens of thousands of miles, and adding a year or two to the life of your cat, even?

The benefits of catching this stuff are many, but they're way down the road, not to be realized unless you keep your car a long time, and run a catch can from near the beginning of the car's lifespan. Or, of course, from the time of your last Seafoam!

Good luck with it, Mr. Drew!
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Anybody interested in buying the Husky filter at Home Depot in the US and sending it to me here in Switzerland (should fit in an enveloppe)?? I can PayPal. Let me know by PM.

Thanks
 
Not a great pic, but there it is. Tubing is now heater hose. It catches oil pretty good!

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Regarding the stone, you can simply unscrew it but that leaves a direct path from inlet to outlet so I broke the stone off of it's little plastic mounting thing and screwed that little piece back on because it holds like a baffle type thingy at the top which diverts the flow right against the plastic container to condense moisture.
 
I didn't bother extending the tube after stone-removal, the residue on the sides indicated to me there's plenty of flow-velocity into that thing, allowing plenty of exposure to "spin off" the goo.

So, you went from 16.6 second 1/4 miles, to a flat 10.0 just from the CatchCan, eh, Drew?
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KIDDING! Don't shoot!
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I went from a 45.01 to a 45.01 @ 35 mph.
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This IS a Toyota Corolla we are talkin about!!

I beat the [censored] out of a Freightliner up a hill yesterday.
 
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Might want to use rubber fuel line or "emissions hose" as heater hose will also turn to goo with time and oil.

You could leave it on a while, and see if the hose is less gooey downstream of the filter as an experiment.
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Napa heater hose is identical to the OEM PCV hose it looks like, in terms of material and construction. It's BEEFY stuff! Hmmmmmm, I'll keep an eye on it though.

The main reason I went with it is so it won't deform under high vacuum.
 
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Kilou..

You can order it from Husky Filter

For the fittings this is what I used:
Fittings

But you can use this:
Another fitting

Stateside, it's Home Depot.

Overseas, you can call Husky, they can get these to you worldwide, I bet..

Good Luck!
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Thanks for the info! Will try to call them but apparently they exclusively sell to Home Depot, no direct sales.
 
Husky is a pretty major brand, don't know why they'd go exclusive to a low-line outfit like Home Depot, especially worldwide. Tell em you bought the compressor in the States and moved to Switzerland with Department of State or the UN or something, I can't imagine they wouldn't help you with it.

And, if Home Depot was worth a tinker's damm, they've get the pieces to you.

Seems like as Home Depot ran all the little hardware stores (Hechinger, a big-box local, and several Southern States that were handy, among others local to the DC area) out of business, their service gets more and more lean in the stores. You're really on your own when you get inside. Even Lowe's is becoming scarce in my area with only two stores for five or six Home Depot stores in No. Va..

There have to be alternatives to the Husky stuff locally where you are. There's nothing special about these parts except of course, they're AVAILABLE!

Good luck!
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Oh, I went with fuel hose this time so hopefully that will stand up to the oil vapor??? The idiots and Napa had no clue what emissions hose was.

Do you guys think standard fuel hose will stand up to the vacuum? Or should I go with high pressure fuel injection hose. The stuff on there right now feels soft after it gets hot; feels like it will colapse under high vacuum. darn it.
 
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I got a replacement hose from Advanced Auto to replace the catch can and associated hose for when I have to go to the Stealer. It was four bucks. Seem the same as the stock hose, and no question of collapse. The correct hose is rubber, but very stout, and surely resistant to the gasses from the PCV. You want a hose modeled after the stock hose that originally connected the PCV to the throttle body intake point. Collapse, obviously, is not an option.

Drew, it looks like plastic elbows on yours. Mine are metal. Sure they'll stand up to it?
 
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