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For anyone who's thinking the ebay catch cans are garbage, I would say you are all wasting a lot of money on the expensive ones.

 

 

Not necessarily true. If you do your homework, you’ll find a lot of good Catch Cans on the market. You will also find a lot of products that claim to be Catch Cans but have no internal design or baffling to create the optimum amount of pressure drop to pull the oil out of the vapor. We have engineered and designed many features in our Catch Can that we feel add a lot of value. To name a few, our Catch Cans have a Stainless Steel mesh, internal baffling, dual chamber containment, and a hard anodized finish to prevent corrosion. In addition, the Base of our Catch Can is removable to allow complete inspection of all internal components and ease cleaning.

 

As I said, there are a lot on the market, go with a company you can trust. There's a lot of junk Catch Cans on the market that claim great results, but are nothing more than empty beer cans. Install our Catch Can downstream of many of the imitation catch cans and you'll be amazed at how much oil still gets through the cheap brands.

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ToesonTheNose
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Here at RX now they are doing a video install on my truck

Jay700
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My dealership said my catch can wasn't needed and wouldn't catch anything. I opened it in there shop after 2,000 miles and let it run on the floor. Lol

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fondupot

So, I added a second output fitting to my Original RX catch can. I had been emailing with the RevExtreme folks about the benefits of a dual output can, and they were gracious enough to send me the par

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Jordan18 Enthusiast

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Read this whole thread, I won't have my truck at least for another month to month and a half from factory but I will be getting a CC for sure.

 

Good read.

Aldila Enthusiast

Aldila

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For those with 20k on a truck before adding a catch can, what can be done to eliminate any damage (if any) already done?

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For those with 20k on a truck before adding a catch can, what can be done to eliminate any damage (if any) already done?

CRC valve cleaner or spray seafoam would be the easiest to try and reduce some of the carbon build up on the valves. Or you could take your intake manifold off and manually clean your valves.

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For those with 20k on a truck before adding a catch can, what can be done to eliminate any damage (if any) already done?

Check out the BG induction service. It's a little pricier and a more involved process than just spraying some seafoam in your engine but it's supposed to be the real deal. They market the service specifically for direct injection engines.

 

HOWEVER, there is some debate out there as to weather any of these products are safe for the engine. It has been discussed through various online outlets and sources that the valve deposits these cleaning agents remove can get trapped between your ring seals and cylinder walls and that can cause the cylinder walls to get scored up thereby creating more of a problem for oil blow by/consumption. Rx specifically mentioned this in one of their install videos and to me over the phone. Even after I already had bought and installed their catch can (so no more product to sell to me from their standpoint) they advised against doing this repeatedly to the engine. They did say if I wanted to do one initial cleaning that would probably be ok but not to do it a lot.

 

Conversely, BG does market their cleaning products as a regular maintenance item and they will warranty your engine if you use their products per their maintenance plan (once every 15,000 miles or something to that effect).

 

So for me the jury is still out on what I want to do. I plan to talk to my mechanic some more about it and see.

 

 

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Thanks for the insight. I'm from a small town and 10-15 of my retired friends drive 2014-15 vehicles with 5.3 motor. Out of curiousity, I asked if they had added a catch can. As expected, they looked at me like I had 3 heads. So folks like, are they going to possibly experience issues? Something the dealership is going to want to charge a bunch to fix?

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05cyclone Enthusiast

05cyclone

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I finally got my Elite Engineering can installed this afternoon. I realized that my engine bay really needs a good cleaning.

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I finally got my Elite Engineering can installed this afternoon. I realized that my engine bay really needs a good cleaning.

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Nice, went with the Blue Catch can and upgraded Black AN Hose Finishers. Looks good!

 

Just one comment, you don't need Teflon tape between the black AN fittings. They are dry seal fittings.

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Nice, went with the Blue Catch can and upgraded Black AN Hose Finishers. Looks good!

That's the setup I want to go with, except black or silver can. Love the hose setup
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Nice, went with the Blue Catch can and upgraded Black AN Hose Finishers. Looks good!

 

Just one comment, you don't need Teflon tape between the black AN fittings. They are dry seal fittings.

Thanks! Ok I will take it off because it was bugging me anyways lol.

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Nice, went with the Blue Catch can and upgraded Black AN Hose Finishers. Looks good!

 

Just one comment, you don't need Teflon tape between the black AN fittings. They are dry seal fittings.

Do the AN fittings provide any benefit over the hose barbs besides the obvious and quite nice aesthetics

Elite Engineering Enthusiast

Elite Engineering

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Do the AN fittings provide any benefit over the hose barbs besides the obvious and quite nice aesthetics

Aesthetics and the ability to un-thread the AN fittings and quickly remove the Catch Can assembly if needed.

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Thanks for the insight. I'm from a small town and 10-15 of my retired friends drive 2014-15 vehicles with 5.3 motor. Out of curiousity, I asked if they had added a catch can. As expected, they looked at me like I had 3 heads. So folks like, are they going to possibly experience issues? Something the dealership is going to want to charge a bunch to fix?

I can share my experience with my wife's Acadia that had a DI motor. At around 100k miles it started running a little rougher, would stumble on acceleration, and started throwing check engine lights. The air intake tube from the air filter box to the throttle body where the pcv tube emptied into would fill up with the oily milkshake and I'm sure it was getting sucked back into the engine. It caused the mass air flow sensor to go bad, the valves were all gunked up, and they had to do a top end engine cleaning to get it running good again. Costed hundreds and hundreds of dollars and multiple trips to the dealer for them to figure it out. I ordered an Elite CC for it but ended up putting it on my new truck as we decided to trade in the Acadia for a smaller more fuel efficient and non DI motor SUV. After going thru that experience and seeing how much it collects in my truck there is no way I would not use one now. My father is looking to get a new Chevy truck and I'll be sure to convince him on a catch can for it and unfortunately caution him to look out for the shakers and vibrators out there. On a side note, sorry to go a little off topic, but do any of your 10-15 friends have any of the vibration issues discussed in other threads?

Aldila Enthusiast

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I can share my experience with my wife's Acadia that had a DI motor. At around 100k miles it started running a little rougher, would stumble on acceleration, and started throwing check engine lights. The air intake tube from the air filter box to the throttle body where the pcv tube emptied into would fill up with the oily milkshake and I'm sure it was getting sucked back into the engine. It caused the mass air flow sensor to go bad, the valves were all gunked up, and they had to do a top end engine cleaning to get it running good again. Costed hundreds and hundreds of dollars and multiple trips to the dealer for them to figure it out. I ordered an Elite CC for it but ended up putting it on my new truck as we decided to trade in the Acadia for a smaller more fuel efficient and non DI motor SUV. After going thru that experience and seeing how much it collects in my truck there is no way I would not use one now. My father is looking to get a new Chevy truck and I'll be sure to convince him on a catch can for it and unfortunately caution him to look out for the shakers and vibrators out there. On a side note, sorry to go a little off topic, but do any of your 10-15 friends have any of the vibration issues discussed in other threads?

I appreciate your response. Most of the friends have between 5-20k. So, they are still fairly new. I will use your story as reference when I do the friendly thing and recommend a catch can. Most don't do any forum activity, so they have no knowledge of people's experiences pertaining to these issues.

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My dealership said my catch can wasn't needed and wouldn't catch anything. I opened it in there shop after 2,000 miles and let it run on the floor. Lol

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