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Old Oct 17, 2008 | 12:10 PM
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I'm designing my own relocation kit. My plans are to run the breather hose (without the puke bottle) to an external remote oil filter (mounting location pending). I then will run a line from the other port of the remote filter base up into the engine compartment with a small crankcasae air filter connected.

Or maybe have a return line from the remote filter base with a checkvalve inline routing back into the engine via the orig. crankcase vent.
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Old Oct 17, 2008 | 06:01 PM
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be forewarned, you cannot have any restrictions in your system. or you will develop oil leaks....... i know .
i had a setup to put the crankcase vent into the exhaust, it worked well untill the oil leaks developed.
it turns out the check valve i installed created enough back pressure to build up pressure in the crankcase causing oil leaks.(i don't use it any more)if any body would like pics of my unused system, let me know
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Old Oct 18, 2008 | 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by johnh
be forewarned, you cannot have any restrictions in your system. or you will develop oil leaks....... i know .
i had a setup to put the crankcase vent into the exhaust, it worked well untill the oil leaks developed.
it turns out the check valve i installed created enough back pressure to build up pressure in the crankcase causing oil leaks.(i don't use it any more)if any body would like pics of my unused system, let me know

John, thanks for the advice. I'll take note of the check valve advice.
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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 01:42 PM
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so i can just connect a new , longer hose to where it mounts now and mount the bottle else where????
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Old Oct 21, 2008 | 07:21 PM
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so i can just connect a new , longer hose to where it mounts now and mount the bottle else where????
lose the bottle...it's usless
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 12:06 PM
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but wont it have anunch of **** pouring all over. because i have emptied the bottle before and stuff came out....
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 12:29 PM
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but wont it have anunch of **** pouring all over. because i have emptied the bottle before and stuff came out....
how many miles do you go before you dump the bottle?
there isn't very much oil coming out, a drop or two ..... i removed mine at the second oil change ... i would guess 90% of dodge owners on this site don't have a "puke" bottle.
but you have to be sure to extend the hose, i have mine extended to about the middle of the fuel tank along the inside of the frame
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 03:14 PM
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i have 160k and what is the actual advatage of this... and just run a hose from the location on the motor all the way wown the frame rail???
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by stevenl
i have 160k and what is the actual advatage of this... and just run a hose from the location on the motor all the way wown the frame rail???
no body has ever figured out why they put the bottle there in the first place
the advantage for me is i don't even think about the vent much less dumping the bottle every oil change
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by stevenl
i have 160k and what is the actual advatage of this... and just run a hose from the location on the motor all the way wown the frame rail???
The advantage is not painting the front/bottom of the truck with oil.
I saw no need to run hose anywhere and just added about a foot of extra hose to the stock blowby, paint the pavement, not the bottom of the truck.
I used 3/4" ID hose and just slipped it over the stock hose, no clamp, my thought being it could get pulled off easily if caught on something.
13 years later and it's still hanging there about 4" off the ground.
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 11:17 PM
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I looked at a BBBeutiful 01 with 100k on the clock ,but the old guy that had it plugged it with a pvc cap ,and was complainig about this d*** leakin SCUNNINS i just said thanks and drove off
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Old Oct 23, 2008 | 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by TRASHMAN
I looked at a BBBeutiful 01 with 100k on the clock ,but the old guy that had it plugged it with a pvc cap ,and was complainig about this d*** leakin SCUNNINS i just said thanks and drove off
"it turns out the check valve i installed created enough back pressure to build up pressure in the crankcase causing oil leaks"
gee, i wonder why it was leaking
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Old Oct 23, 2008 | 10:56 AM
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When a lot of folks used to use the jig method of fixing the KDP on 12 valves blown seals all over the place were quite a problem for folks who couldn't follow instructions.
Using the jig involved involved drilling and tapping a hole in the side of the timing case for a bolt to thread in that would prevent the dowel pin from dropping out. In order to keep chips from falling into the engine it was best to pressurize the crankcase a little bit so chips would blow out. Even hooking a vacuum cleaner on blow to the oil fill or blowby tube was more than enough.
But some folks seemed to know it all and skipped the instructions, hooking up a shop compressor turned up full blast to the blowby tube.
What a mess, almost every gasket on the engine blown in less than a second.
Some of them are lot of work to replace.
Of course they mostly would blame it on someone else...
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Old Oct 23, 2008 | 11:04 AM
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my relocation kit was free ...

just put a piece of 3/4" hose to a T ...

ran the ends into the front fenders ...

nice and oily ... not rust

and a wiff of smoke around the headlights at night makes the truck look like it's a fire breathing monster ...

been that way for 5 years and 80k miles
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Old Oct 23, 2008 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by 2broke2smoke
my relocation kit was free ...
and a wiff of smoke around the headlights at night makes the truck look like it's a fire breathing monster ...

been that way for 5 years and 80k miles
the smoke at night is the reason i ran mine back along the frame as far as i did
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