Hey everyone,
You may remember in the past threads about "Oil burning" and white smoke on this forum:
I posted that I see the same behavior in my van ('89 syncro westy, EJ25 with SC aluminum pan):
OlRivrRat has posted that he has had success with the Krank Vent:
I noticed some interesting behavior this Friday while driving home across WA state. I got home and noticed that some oil had burped out of the smallcar tubular dipstick and down the back of my bumper. I have no idea how much oil escaped but I'll make note how much oil drains when I change it next. I have since plugged the dipstick.
One thing I did not follow up on in my message #61050 is that several weeks after that happened I decided to change my air filter. When I opened up the airbox (stock one from a Forester) it had a significant amount of oil in it. I assume that the oil was blown into the air box during the incident that caused the oil burning and smoke that I described in the same post.
I'm beginning to think that a device like a Krank Vent will be necessary on my van to keep these issues from happening as well as get rid of some oil consumption I notice during the course of driving the van.
Since my van has vent lines coming from both valve covers to either side of the air box, how would I pipe in a Krank Vent? I assume I will tee them together, run the output side of the vent to the air box, and plug the other side of the airbox as well.
Any ideas or input is welcome!
Thanks -
Luke
