Do you have to use a breather or can you leave it open?

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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 07:04 AM
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Default Do you have to use a breather or can you leave it open?

I have an endyn catch can/pcv and I was wondering do you have to have something on the valve cover?
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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 07:59 AM
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just use a small filter or route one hose to the catch can. 98ctr
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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 08:07 AM
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Default Re: Do you have to use a breather or can you leave it open? (redturbocivic)

just run a line from the valve cover down to the ground, you dont want to hook it to the catch can ,
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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 08:14 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18C1CYA &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just run a line from the valve cover down to the ground, you dont want to hook it to the catch can , </TD></TR></TABLE>

I been looking at some peoples engine bay on here. I do see a hose running from there and going down somewhere. I guess that is what I will do. Get my 10 bucks back for that garbage breather filter.

I can just use a vaccumm hose right?
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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 08:41 AM
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Yep juse use a hose with the right ID for the valve cover fitting.
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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 08:45 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18C1CYA &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> you dont want to hook it to the catch can , </TD></TR></TABLE>

why not?
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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 09:28 AM
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Default Re: Do you have to use a breather or can you leave it open? (98ctr)

I think it's better to just run a hose down to the lower part of the engine bay than use a filter because when the filter gets saturated with oil, I think it's harder for the engine to suck in air. Besides, the vacuum would never be strong enought to suck large debris that would harm the engine
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Old Aug 8, 2004 | 01:42 PM
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Thats why you hook it up to an oil catch can and then put a filter on top of the oil catch can so the filter never gets saturated with oil and you still get a good ammount of air in. 98ctr
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