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  1. SquireSCA
    So you think I should pop the cover and look in there, and soak up the oil with some paper towels or something?
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    I do my oil changes every 5k miles, but the dealer does them so I don't know how low it is... I should probably check from time to time, LOL
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    So an update... Put around 450 miles or so on the truck, give or take. Pulled the can today to see how much oil was in there, and there was roughly at least half, if not 3/4 of an inch of motor oil in the can... I left it in, and will pour it out and measure it at the 1,000 mile mark. I also picked up a can of the Seafoam intake cleaner that I plan to do soon, now that I am trapping at least most of the oil from going into the intake... I would imagine at this rate, by the time I hit 1,000 miles I will have a couple inches of oil in the can...
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    Where can I buy this? At least once a month, some scumbag steals gas out of my truck... I guess the best economy in 50 years and record low unemployment isn't enough for some people to just get an F'ing job, and they feel the need to steal gas from people... I need a locking gas cap apparently...
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    If we didn’t have gdi motors nobody would have concerns...
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    Was just part of the package deal that I negotiated with them when I bought it. I wanted a spray in bed liner, upgrade the cloth seats to leather, 2.25" level kit installed up front and 3" blocks in the back, upgrade the tires to 1 size larger than stock, Nitto Ridgegrapplers, etc...
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    I have the dealer do all the work, as oil changes are included every 5k miles till 40k... but I guess I can remove the catch can for when I go in... will take 5 min to return things to stock... for the intake valve cleaning... pay the dealer to do it, or do the Seafoam kit myself?
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    Where do you get the OEM connectors? Would make it easy I guess, just in case.
  9. SquireSCA
    Why the concern if the dealer sees it?
  10. SquireSCA
    I have 4 cyl mode disabled with my tune.
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    That makes sense, but I am not an automotive mechanic, just a mechanically minded person, so I can't say for sure... but yeah, I think that a little vacuum would be fine, to draw a little pressure and vapor out, but it doesn't need to be so strong that it's literally sucking oil out of the case... I went literally 20 miles and there was a quarter teaspoon... That's insane. There is no reason or need for that.
  12. SquireSCA
    Correct, and I am thinking that it's the massive suction from that line, from the intake manifold, that is drawing the oil out more than it being pushed out. When I complete my 1,000 mile test with the catch can, I will see exactly how many mL of oil is in there. I will then take the vacuum line off of the catch can and plug it, and then put a pod filter on the "out" of the catch can, drive another 1,000 miles and see how much oil it captures and compare.
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    I think that there wouldn't be so much oil in there if there wasn't such a strong vacuum sucking it out of the crank case... Pull the dipstick on the catch can while the engine is idling and you will hear and feel how strong that suction is... I am betting that if you capped the vacuum line going to the manifold, and just put a pod filter on the "out" line on the catch can, the amount of oil caught would go down drastically. I don't think that the amount that is "pushing out" under crankcase pressure, is anywhere near as much as how much is being sucked out by that vacuum line... Thoughts?
  14. SquireSCA
    I posted a pic, as well as a link to the install video. There is a line coming out of the top of the case, below the throttle body. That line ran from there to the intake. I checked to see which line was pulling the vacuum and it matched what the video instructions showed.
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    Also, unscrew the bottom from the top, and then unscrew the little baffle from the inside of the top. Stuff some stainless steel wool in there and then out the baffle back in, and then the bottom back on. That extra material will help filter the oil out of the air, forming larger drops that will fall into the baffle and settle out, and less being passed through to the vacuum line. it won’t catch all, but removing 80-90% is well worth the $30...
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    How does GM not address this? I mean, how do they think dumping a full quart of oil into the intake manifold every 5k miles, isn’t gonna make problems?
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    Will probably have the dealer do the valve cleaning service, and if I keep up with the catch can, shouldn't have to worry about the valves getting ganked up...
  18. SquireSCA
    This was after only 20 miles...
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    With the amount of oil I see in that lower hose, I think putting a filter on it might drip oil everywhere... although you could attach a hose to it and mount a filter a couple feet away, as high up as possible and that would probably mitigate any mess. but with decent catch cans being $30 shipped from Amazon, no reason not to have one.
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    My dealer does the BG valve cleaning service, so I will have them do that the next oil change. I will check the catch can every week or so and so long as it’s removing most of the oil, I won’t worry too much about it once the valves have been cleaned.
  21. SquireSCA
    Yeah, I see people filling it with stainless steel wool... might keep the stuff from sloshing around and filter better, but would also require you to empty it more often, it taking up space and displacing oil and water...
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    I guess there is no harm in putting a catch can on those as well.
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    So you knew this all along, and felt the need to not say anything? That’s helpful.
  25. SquireSCA
    Yeah, I totally had this wrong. What is scary is that nobody reading all this, caught it either! LOL Anyway, put the valve vent hoses back on the intake tube where they belong. They are drawing air OUT of the intake tube, not depositing hot oily air into it. The PCV hose is a single, short hose that comes from the top of the case, below the intake tube, and routes to the driver side of the motor, into the side of the intake manifold. I have pics of the catch can mounted with the hoses, and I marked the hoses with green and red arrows, so you can see the direction the air flows...
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