Oil coming out of breather?

[Kevin R.]

Is it possible for oil to be slowly accumulating in my breather filter and then dripping out?

I am trying to source an oil leak and that seems to be the only thing in that area. I also periodically see drips of oil on the underside of it.

Could I have that much blowby to come out of the filter?



Thanks
Kevin R

 

[BlownFiveLiter]

Is it possible for oil to be slowly accumulating in my breather filter and then dripping out?

It's definitely possible if there's no baffle under it.

 

[johnmcgt]

I am not sure what you are talking about, I did not think our 94-95's had breather filters?
There is a PVC oil accumulator kit that can be bought or pieced together to solve oil accumulation. Do a search on here for PVC filter or something along that line and should come up with several threads on the subject.

Hope this helps,

John

 

[final5-0]

Is it possible for oil to be slowly accumulating in my breather filter and then dripping out?

I am trying to source an oil leak and that seems to be the only thing in that area. I also periodically see drips of oil on the underside of it.

Could I have that much blowby to come out of the filter?



Thanks
Kevin R

Just curious Kevin

I don't see a PA

Why the breather

Grady

 

[SeventyMach1]

This is why I no longer run a breather. I had problems like this as well. It seems that the only case you might need to is with a PA (as Grady mentioned).



John, what you're referring to is commonly called an "PCV oil seperator" on here ..... and there are several people with them, as well as several write-ups. And I believe you're right there ..... our cars never came with a breather.




Kevin, are you running the stock VC's? How about a seperator?

 

[johnmcgt]

My bad, I had PVC on the brain. I have been fixing sprinkler system in preperation for summer.
Yeah, the seperator is what I was refering to.

Thanks

 

[GRGT1994]

I think the talk about an oil separator is off topic from the original post. As I understand it, he installed a breather on a Trickflow valve cover. So he may not even have a PCV (some recommend running a breather back there too if you run one on the valve cover). I cant see from the pictures, but do you still have a PCV valve?

As to why there would be oil coming out there, I don't have a clue. When I have posted about breathers recently, many people assured me that air flows into the engine block through the valve cover and out through the PVC (into the intake). So why you would be having oil flow against that airflow is beyond me.

 

[HISSIN50]

Brad (or Greg when you're undercover. I still feel bad about that), the air will take the path of least resistance, which is often the breather (over a PCV). Additionally, it is quite easy for the modded folks to overload a stock sized PCV; even if the breather was the path of greater resistance, it would be recruited to help out (just like the oil filler to air inlet hose helps vent crankcase vapors at WOT).

Kevin, a closed breather with a remote drain might be an option, though going back to pure PCV might be cool (PCV is active in sucking the chitty vapors out, rather than passively allowing them to ooze out via a breather).

Good luck.