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Old 09-12-2019, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by kevins2 View Post
Paul indicates he's collecting 2 - 3 oz. per 1,000 miles. What are the rest of you experiencing? It'd be nice to have a benchmark to see what I encounter.
I think that's pretty accurate. My VC is baffled around the valve, and sucking oil was never a huge problem to begin with, but it was a slight problem. What really brought it to my attention was the fact that I had a plain old rubber hose between the carb and PCV valve and the oil would literally leach through the rubber over the winter, when the car was not driven for a good five months. It was the darnedest thing to put the car away for the winter and then open the hood a few months later and find the PCV hose covered in oil droplets. Of course, just upgrading the hose to a fluoroelastomer fuel hose stopped that leaching and adding the Moroso separator was just an added touch to catch that little bit of oil before it went in to the carb base.
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