That's a ccv reroute. Keeps any oil from crank case vapours from entering the intake. Other end of hose would be routed underneath the truck . Plug with clamp is to seal the intake where ccv used to enter.

 

I heard about that from a diesel tech guy I talked to way back when I bought my truck.I didnt hear or read anything more about it and kinda forgot about it. Any special kind of heat resistant hose needed to vent downward with? the hose thats there is only a few inches long. How big of problem is the oil vapors goin back into intake?

 

You can vent to ground or you can do what I did with my. I did a Racor CCV filter. Mounted it on the frame by the front passenger door.

Routed the hose from the canister to it and then a return hose to the intake.

 

Racor ccv filter is a nice set up....I've looked at them online several times. I went with a home made one...some 1 1/2" abs pipe, couple end caps, couple kitchen scrubbers and some 1" heater hose. Mounted it up front to the side of my intercooler. Not sure if this works as well as the Racor ccv filter mind you...however I drain a teaspoon of oil or so out every few months and have no oil residue in my upper cac pipe either. :-).
Some guys just vent to atmosphere, but vapours can be stinky to say the least. You can run it to the rear of the truck as well, but make extra sure there are no low spots in the hose as moisture will collect in there and reduce flow and increase crankcase pressure which is not a good thing.
The purpose of this mod is to keep as much oil as possible out of your intercooler. It will collect in there, coat the inside surfaces reducing efficiency of the intercooler. The oil can also gum up the turbos over time as well.

 

[]w The oil can also gum up the turbos over time as well. [/

thats what that diesel tech guy had said only he more strongly stated how it will eff up the turbo...I might look into those ideas you guys suggested. probly in a way easily put back to stock in event of need to visit dealer.

 

Hello I'm new here to the site and have a question and a little story of what happened to me. I've been looking here to see if anyone has had this problem? I bought my truck new and have been smelling what seem to be something burning but we could never find anything. This past summer we smelt it really bad I pulled over and this time noticed smoke coming out of the hood. I looked around and finally opened the hood slowly to make sure know flames. I then see my firewall insulation smoldering red almost fire I grab water bottles and put it out. So I finally get back home and talk to the service mangler at the ford dealer by my work and he said it wouldn't have ever caught fire should have left it and kept driving. So I checked on the internet to see some trucks have caught fire. I guess my main question here is I have bought the ford premium warranty and kept it on my truck since it was new, so is this something that should be covered by ford? Sorry to be so long winded, Thanks in advance for any help here... Steve

 

In order for the part to be covered you will have to get the service advisor to look it up by the part #.


Once he does that it will show what kind of warranty is on that.


It most certainly will catch fire.