That has sense to me.

 

now william, can the CCV get clogged you think? pretty sure mines starting to blow a little more oil out the dipstick than usual. might be the whole synthetic deal though?

 

if it soaked up enough oil it would.

If your blowing oil out the dipstick, ccv would be where i'd start.

pull the oil cap off when engine is smoking out the dipstick and see if any smoke comes out.

 

So it has been debated in other threads about the ccv being vented to the intake. A guy tore his engine on the sd forum and said that their was alot of build up around the intake valves. Not sure if that's a bad thing but it would collect and build heat and eventually cause a slow down in air travel. Most cummins and fleet 444 int. engines are vented to the atmosphere. Just thinking there is a reason they don't vent it in the intake. I'm thinking of routing mine into my exaust to see how it works.

 

Theres logic in what you said, back before I did my 6637 a year ago I noticed I had a TON of oil in the intake. The factory filter that was in the truck was in preaty nasty shape and the yellow indicator was in the change part.

I just changed the 6637 about 2 weeks ago and just to check I pulled the rest of the intake to see what it looked like, and suprisingly it was fairly clean.

The only thing I can figure is like you said, when the intake gets restricted the truck starts trying to breath though the engine.

 

I have never cleaned my screen?? I believe the reason for venting it to the intake is emissions. The bigger trucks don't have as much emissions standards to meet. I'm gettign a few drips out of my CCV mod but not much. About the screen, I don't even recall seeing one in there?

 

There is one in there glenn. =)

Vent it to atmo, or properly vent it to exhaust to pull a vacuum.

I get a lot of smoke out mine just vented to atmo.

 

One thing that hasn't been mentioned here is the selection of oil being used in the engine. It's certainly possible that a cheaper oil would make more vapors than a good quality diesel rated oil like Rotella T. Just a thought.

 

Why not just get rid of the screen altogether? Then it'd only be sucking in vapors instead of actual oil

 

Justin, correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't that be more likely to suck oil directly out of the V/C's without some kind of screen in there? Especially when under boost?

I had mine vent to atmo, but got sick of the smell, smoke, random people telling me my truck was on fire. Back into the intake it went. Heck, I'll burn anything I can suck through the engine... wasted energy as atmo vent

I clean mine about every 5-10k, whenever I get around to it. You can tell it was dirty if you check the before and after on the dip stick smoke. The level goes way down after cleaning out that screen. A can of brakleen seems to do the trick.

 

If you recall what I wrote earlier.

The CCV sucks oil vapor out of the motor.

The screen catches the vapor and it solidifies.

Eventually the screen collects enough oil vapor and the turbo sucks this oil into the intake because the screen is dirty.

So, if you removed the screen, it would basically be sucking strait oil vapor with nothing to catch it. Thus just defeating the purpose all together.

 

I hate wasting good products on something simple.

about 1 dollars worth of gas or 3 dollars worth of brake clean. haha. I can wash more parts with the gas though also. So i just use some good ole petrol.

I just plug the holes iwth my fingers and swish it around. Use the air hose to clean it out.

I have the appearance of no blow by as well when that sucker is clean.

 

I originally had mine vented to the atmosphere with the metal filter, but when I put the different turbo in I had to redo the doghouse as it was in the way. I'm currently running it straight to the atmosphere without a screen.

It doesn't smoke anymore than it did when the screen was in there. However, it does leave a spot in the garage...