[Fot] crankcase vent catch can

[Jim Gray]

The only time I've ever had milky oil in the catch tank is when I had a head
gasket on it's way out.

jim

 

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From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jason Ostrowski
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 10:48 AM
To: Yellow04
Cc: FOT List Triumph
Subject: Re: [Fot] crankcase vent catch can

 

Hmm. Interesting.

I'm actually in the process of trying to give the Zippy Car more venting at
the top of the rockers and was going to copy the way I have it on the yellow
car.

I have a sealed tube that exits at the front of the valve cover and wraps
around the back to the other side where there is a tank (with a foam filter
inside) mounted to the where the stock fuel pump would go.

So I supposed it flowed towards below the back end of the camshaft 

It never occurred to me that the oil could get wet or milky.

This has seemed to work well???

I can't say I have seen any evidence of moisture or poor oil color inside
the tank.  .

Your comments have me now wondering if there may be a better way.

I'm willing to try something different so I would be interest in more info
on the topic of valve cover venting on the 6 Cylinder.

Thanks!

Jason Ostrowski

Friendly Ghost Racing

1969 Triumph GT6+ Racecars

 

 

 

 

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Yellow04 <yellow04 at tr4racer.com> wrote:

I'm from the school of thought that if oil gets blown out of the engine,
it's milky, full of condensation, and has no business going back into my
motor! If you are putting enough oil on the catch tank that you NEED to
drain it back into the motor, something is not right.

Brian, one cup of oil in the catch tank after running a Mosport weekend is
not a lot of oil. Think of the amount of time you had that throttle at WFO
over the course of the weekend... That's the beauty of Mosport!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Ostrowski
> Subject: Re: [Fot] crankcase vent catch can
>
> Brian,
> I have my vent catch tank set-up designed to allow the "vented oil" from
the
> catch can to gravity feed back down into the main oil galley. There are a
few
> different ways to do that and it works good. It makes the venting more
> effective due to the circular flow and the oil is not lost, never needs to
be
> drained and stays in the motor to be used.
> Good luck.
> Jason Ostrowski
> Friendly Ghost Racing



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