CCV deletion, which is best route??
 

After reading many posts, i am confused about the CCV. I can get a glacier diesel kit, and have the little filter, or take the hose to the ground....but for the filter under the cover, some are saying it is best to gut it and others are saying it needs to remain. any thoughts??

Kip

I gutted mine, then put a small filter I got in the rice grinder isle at auto zone on the vent nipple. Then a threaded pvc pipe plug in the intake pipe. Cost me about 15 bucks. Have had zero problems with it so far.

for what it is worth I put the GDP kit on because it was fast and simple but I left the factory filter intact, 3 months later and it hasn't thrown a hissy fit due to increased crankcase pressure so I will leave it there......

Did you install a new ccv filter for good measure? does it ever really have to be replaced if using the gd kit?

I didn't install a new one, I'm not really sure if it would need to be changed with greater or lower frequency now that I'm not creating low pressure by drawing the gasses out through the turbo or not, no suction could lead to less oil getting pulled into the CCV filter leading to less problems. although I have no real basis for my theory haha

The theory sounds pretty good eh.....

I am going to gut mine, and am running a piece of tubing (heater hose) down below the frame rail (like an old fashioned stink pipe). A buddy used the Glacier kit with the filter,and ended up taking the filter off and running it this way, because he complained he was getting oil fumes in the cab through the heater. After he switched, smell went way.

I have ran with the hose disconnected for well over 100K miles...I ran into the stink in the cab so I put a fresh ccv filter in and the smell was gone... for awhile. I then ran a hose down by the wheel well. Smell gone for awhile but it was back after awhile again when idling and the wind was blowing in my direction. Filter was heavily laden again...I might gut the filter instead of replacing and accept the odor. Why bother replacing the filter to let it clog up and possibly create a restriction, right?

I gutted mine, and put breather/filter on it. Oil is all over the filter, and sprayed from the filter under the hood some. Why would that happen?

that doesn't sound good at all, is there anything in there to make oil drip back down inside the engine or can it just flow pressure out the breather?
I'm going to have to take mine apart to gut it soon, the lightning bolt came on the other day for a crankcase pressure code so its going to get gutted