Homemade Oil Catch Can/tank

[yorkshirekowboy 19 1 Cars]

Bought mine, but someone on Scoobynet made this one from a water bottle and plumbing bits:

 

 

 

 

sorry mate if being silly, so the two clear pipes, where are they best to be lead to on a 8v 1.9. ??

[max0 5]

sorry mate if being silly, so the two clear pipes, where are they best to be lead to on a 8v 1.9. ??

[yorkshirekowboy 19 1 Cars]

 

 

good lad cheers mate, may have to come round and show you it when its all homemade and working

[Rik 0]

 

Should the drain not be going back into the sump?

 

Rik

[tom_m 0]

 

thats a 16v not an 8v! on an 8v you just need to take one pipe off the large outlet on the oil filler cap and block off everything else that goes to it.

 

and no i wouldn't recommend the drain being plumbed back to the sump, its nasty shiznit you collect in a catch tank, and it won't do you any favours letting back into the oil.

[Dream Weaver 2]

Should the drain not be going back into the sump?

 

Rik

 

No, as any cack would then drain back to the engine oil - that is my diagram that I made formy setup, and the catch tank doesn't get much gunk inside it.

[Trick 1]

cheers for the search function!!

 

i still havent got round to fitting my catch tank, but time is right now that ive sorted the other stuff out...

 

...Re: the pic showing the 16v ...at the bottom of the pipe that goes from the filler into the crank case, this joins up to a thick pipe that also has another pipe on it (running from rocker cover), bit like a T-piece.

 

I guess i would therefore need to block off the end of this T? or replace the pipe completely?

[s16 Peggy 0]

Useful thread this as I will soon be fitting a catch tank to my S16.

 

Cheers

[Guest DanielVTS]

Yup, a lot of what gets collected in a catch tank can be water vapour, you really don't want that in your sump. Keep an eye on the level and the contents, can give early signs of an expiring engine before it gets REALLY expensive!

Edited June 18, 2007 by DanielVTS

[Jesper Cronelid 0]

Hehe, this is my catchtank: