Like this catch can location? (1 Viewer)

[Hammer45]

I know it’s huge.. In this location I can reach the drain at the bottom of the canister. Is this too far from the suction and is the downhill location ok or even preferable? I’m hoping to go a day or two without a stupid question. I’ll start next month….

 

[EscapeWagon62]

Being far away and downhill won’t cause you any issues as long you empty it out regularly.
I’ve moved mine a couple of times until I found the easiest place to drain it.
Where it sits now, I pull the hood latch when I’m filling the gas tank and take a look. If it needs emptying I have a small jar and drain it while the gas pump it filling.
Mine is super small….1.5 OZ but it’s clear so I can check it easily.

Do they help? Who knows. All I know is that cleaning 230,000 miles of oil/carbon out of my air chamber is a job I shall never want to do again.

 

[OSS]

I never needed one for 300,000 miles & counting. Sure, some blowby oil gets sucked back into the engine, more so on older engines, but so what. It's not like the intake manifold will coke up with carbon

 

[Hammer45]

I never needed one for 300,000 miles & counting. Sure, some blowby oil gets sucked back into the engine, more so on older engines, but so what. It's not like the intake manifold will coke up with carbon

I never needed one for 300,000 miles & counting. Sure, some blowby oil gets sucked back into the engine, more so on older engines, but so what. It's not like the intake manifold will coke up with carbon

I just cleaned the thick gunk out of my intake and it had to be messing with something. Pretty easy to do. I do wonder if the additional “lubrication” was factored into the original design however.