Oil Catch Can, Eliminate that knock!

I am also interested in purchasing a OCC bracket @danlatu

 

Oh, btw .........

This is the OCC I settled on . Its the Ruien style .
Wilsondyno Polish Baffled Universal Aluminum Oil Catch Can Reservoir Tank Black | eBay
Under $35. shipped. Looks to be a quality unit , all aluminum . Ventless design . Quick shipping .

 

Great choice @12voltman !! I also got the same black OCC, but branded Ruien from Amazon for around the same price as well.

 

Box is exactly the same as mine too, right down to how they taped the box . Fit right inside my mailbox !
Must be quite a few of these getting rebranded , and selling through different online vendors.
I wont complain .... $35. works for me !

 

I got the same one too.

I made a few modifications:

1 - I cut a piece of stainless steel scrubber to fit in the inlet "chamber" as a baffle.
2 - I bought a second length of hose so I could install the catch can behind the driver's side headlight.
3 - The catch can fits perfectly in a foam can cozy holding it firmly in place.


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engine compartment gets kinda hot in the summer, so I really don't know if that's a good idea/

 

It doesn't get all that hot in that location. I imagine the foam will begin to break down after a couple of years -- at which point I'll replace it with another 99 cent cozy.

I like the fact that it's not hard mounted to anything, so it's easy to check and empty the contents. This time of year I have to empty it once a week -- it's mostly water.

 

In Maine you could worry about freezing, especially if the contents is mostly water.

 

Yes. Emptying the OCC was a bit of a chore the last couple of weeks. There was a layer of oily/milky sludge on top of a frozen-solid water.

 

First thing in the morning after it had sat for 12 hours in -10F overnight temperatures. So not surprising that it was frozen.

 

The gases coming from the PCV valve are invariably going to be pretty hot. Hopefully there's not a time span when the car's still warming that would be problematic, say a solidly frozen OCC. The frozen bit would typically be the OCC's "sump" too, not impeding the flow of gasses above. Hope hope...

 

Got around to installing the OCC this afternoon. For the record , this is for my 2011 , with 69,250 miles on the clock . Not too hard of a job if one is fairly mechanically inclined. Its a little intimidating due to all the wiring and hoses that have to come off if removing the intake manifold . But it all came apart very nicely. A long needle nose pliers is about mandatory for removing some of those spring clamps ! Antifreeze loss is very minimal when removing the throttle body coolant lines. I plugged the lines when I pulled them, but later found out I really didn't need to .
Anyway, pulled the intake and cleaned it out. There was a significant amount of oil residue/mucus in it.
EGR down tube was surprisingly clean with just a light coating of some carbon build up . Cleaned it up quickly anyway , and decided to forgo the much harder job of cleaning the EGR cooler since the tube was so clean .
Got it all done in about an 1 1/2 hours time , although I did have to run out to Lowes quick to get the 3/8" barb fitting and the 10' clear braided hose (which was MORE than enough to mount the OCC behind the drivers side headlight) .
Everything went back together perfectly, but did have something odd happen that I cant quite figure out. Car was warm , inside the heated shop all night/day . After It was all done, I started it up to check it all out ......and the damn thing knocked again for maybe 10 seconds . Not sure if there was some residual oils in the intake plenum ,fittings, passages or what . Its fine now and runs like a champ . Could be my imagination , but it seems to run smoother .........could be a little placebo effect !
I have the OCC installed in a small piece of corrugated ribbed hose for now, until danlatu gets done with the PriusChat OCC holder bracket ......... .

Here are some quick pictures ............

Oil residue in PCV inlet to intake.


Oil residue in intake manifold !


OCC install location .


Temporary OCC holder (until danlatu gets the brackets done !)

 

When my OCC has been filling lately it hasn't frozen yet. And it's been darn cold lately. I had just emptied it again a couple days ago and it was 80% full. Maybe it's the ethanol fraction in my fuel...

I do a lot of short trips at speeds under 50 mph. Very easy on the throttle to be easier on the engine when it's cold. So the manifold has high vacuum and there's more EGR.

Pixel XL ?

 

Where'd you get the corrugated ribbed hose?

 

Did anyone else with this particular OCC add part of a stainless steel scrubber (or anything else) to the inlet "port" as a baffle?