Oil Catch Can, Eliminate that knock!

Could it at the least reduce the EGR clog rate, less oil going into combustion chamber.

 

@danlatu is that youin the driver's seat?

 

Hello to all from Houston, TX.
After 15k driving here is the picture of oil catch can. I can’t believe my own eyes. It was almost full. Check out the picture.
Going forward I will clean the can every 10k or so. I am using Mobil 1 high mileage synthetic oil which is 15k rated.
Thanks again guys who helped me to do all this work and since then my car is running without any knock.

 

Wow! I'll try to remember to post what I find at the spring oil change. That'll only be 5K kms at most though.

 

I drive mix same like you. 2000 miles a week. Checked my oil changed log and found out the interval was 12k. I think that’s a lot of oil on the OCC.

 

What speeds?

 

Freeway 70 & city 45 mph

 

Strange. Seems like 1 qt of oil there. So how much oil was missing by observing the dipstick level check.
It does make scence though that about 15% of that fluid is oil. I cant believe its more than that.or else the IM will be flooded and top off the throttle passages.

 

Now that winter has arrived, I've been needing to empty the OCC much more often lately. It fills up every week. Just this week we've had a cold snap where the temps in the morning were under 0* F. I heard some startup knock that lasted for a second or two. Sure enough - with almost a weeks worth, the can was near full. And after emptying - no more startup knock.

We've had outside temps between -9* and 32*F and I do lots of short trips. My trip to work is 3 miles one way. Once a week I'll take it for a joy ride around town to help remove the condensation.

Pixel XL ?

 

And this is condensation or a lot of oil? What’s the reading on the dipstick?

 

It's a ton of condensation and smells like fuel with a little oil mixed in. The dipstick still reads full

Pixel XL ?

 

Where you got yours mounted?

Here’s where I put ours:


While not as cold out here, I guess I’ll have to check it out soon.

Thanks for the tip.

 

That seems odd. I have a strong hunch mine is filling nowhere near that fast, but time will tell. I'm going to leave it to the spring oil change to check, famous last words...

 

IMG_20170717_122331_mod by mjoo posted Jul 18, 2017 at 1:16 PM

Fits snug between a couple of hoses. There's no damage to the hoses. I left the intake resonator off without any problems.

It's also easy to remove.

 

I see you have removed the air intake .

That’s not something I can have out here.

But I mounted it on the cross member as it is the lowest point and away from the hot engine block so the PCV valve will still function as designed and the lights don’t flash back into the intake.

I’ll check ours out soon and see if there is any accumulation .

 

What's the story with this:

 

Good attention to detail.

I missed that and was looking only at the catch can.