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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 07:32 AM
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what is the best way to handle this oil tube
I have hook the breather from the valve cover to my intake pipe but not sure what
would be the best way to handle this tube
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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 07:56 AM
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Are you referring to the metal tube that runs from the turbo around the back of the motor? If so, I understood that to be the required oil supply to the turbo.
 
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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 09:13 AM
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No this line ran from the airfilter to the oil pan in the MB
 
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 12:24 PM
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It is the oil return drain from the valve cover breather. It is there to recapture oil from excessive blow-by, the pressure was vented to the air cleaner, then the oil drains back to the pan.
 
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 12:55 PM
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If I run a line from the valve cover breather to my air intake on my turbo would there be to much oil going into the turbo and them just cap that return line.
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 11:02 PM
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As long as you don't have too much blow-by. My 85 cali motor didn't have the drain tube, it used a different air cleaner and basically ran the breather tube to the top of the air cleaner.
 
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 05:14 AM
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Would the worst time it would do is just burn the oil from the blow by?
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 01:14 PM
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take a piece of 1.250 black pipe nipple 4" long put a cap on 1 end drill a bunch of .250 holes in stuff it full of steel wool and on the bottom make a fitting that will fit into the return and on the side weld in a fitting that will adapt to the blow by tube should work

then it will drain back into pan
 
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