CANUCK88

First of all, thank you for the R&D with the vacuum pump delete and for going through with your plan and documenting it for the rest of us. Greatly appreciated! I just pulled the intake manifold on my 2014 with almost 200k/124,000 miles. Job went well, I'll be posting it on the forum in the future. Build up wasn't as bad as I was expecting but it is largely highway kms. Daily driver in canada. Mainly parked outside in the cold... to be continued....after cleaning I installed a catch can as I couldn't find much info on crankcase evac... starting to regret getting a cc, especially since I mounted it at brake booster bolt and can feel it vibrate through the pedal. Anyways, some questions about crank evac system:  1) Does your tail pipe get black and smokey after a while? Better than that fouled air being fed back into the engine though I suppose 2) Did you drill and weld into exhaust at two points, for each vent, or did you "T" them both into one 5/8" line? 3) Are check valves necessary to prevent backdraft?? 4) My biggest concern, Could frigid canadian winters have negative effects on evac system? Such as, condensation freezing in line/check valve and pluging it shut, thus causing a pressure build up... Although my CC has a safe gaurd built in. If the can/line freezes, air will vent through a check valve to airbox. Set up much like the clean side seperator. Hose goes from oil fill port to intake port where valve cover woukd normally be attached. Which brings me to question #5) Now that I've already paid for and installed a CC system, would it make sense to vent the CC to exhaust like an evac system? Seems like kind of foolish overkill but would clean some of the crud before getting baked on my exhaust and make some tree hugers happy i guess?¿ lol. I suppose you could call me a fool for buying a pricier CC in the first place. It's the UPR 14-18 GM Chevrolet GMC Trucks 5.3L Pro Series Dual Valve Oil Catch Can CSS Plug N Play ™ What can I say, figured I'd spoil myself on some top notch CC since I save big time doing all my own maintenance and repairs. After looking into things further, a moroso crankcase evav system which is basically maintenance free, cheaper, and 100% effective seems to be the better choice. So long as it doesn't screw with motor functionality in any way. Anyways, begining to bang head on the wall with catch can vs evac debate. Might just stick with what I have seeing as my carbon build up wasn't all that horrible after 200k, all stock. And I'm confident I can take apart and blast in a day when I feel the time is right... Ps...anybody interested in a really good catch can? Lol

First of all, thank you for the R&D with the vacuum pump delete and for going through with your plan and documenting it for the rest of us. Greatly appreciated! now, some questions regarding crankcase evacuation system : 1.a) do check engine codes come up? 1.b) Can you delete/tune those codes out permanently? 2) Does your tail pipe get black and smokey after a while? Better than that fouled air being fed back into the engine though I suppose 3) Did you drill and weld in at two points for both vents or "T" in to one line? 4) Are check valves necessary to prevent backdraft?? 5) Could frigid canadian winters have negative effects on evac system? Such as, condensation freezing in line/check valve and pluging it shut, thus causing a pressure build up... Maybe this isn't the right thread for these questions but haven't found concrete answers and begining to bang head on the wall with catch can vs evac debate ... any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Did you get codes that you had to tune out?¿

Any updates on your experiment?