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Re: PCV revisited

To: Greg Gowins <cartman@dnai.com>, Spridgets List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: PCV revisited
From: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:25:56 -0800 (PST)
Reply-to: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
It'll sure help.  In my engine, the valve was a little
too generous at idle, so I had to crimp it down quite
a bit.  Otherwise, works fine.

--- Greg Gowins <cartman@dnai.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow listers,
> 
> I've gone back into the archives and done some
> researching on the NAPA
> #2-9254 PCV valve.  I'm picking one up tomorrow, as
> I feel I've donated
> enough oil to the ecosystems of California and Texas
> with my very generous
> Sprite.  I've read about how different people have
> plumbed theirs.  I think
> I'm going to go the simple route, and just run it
> straight from the intake
> manifold to the timing cover canister.  I've got a
> newer valve cover, and it
> doesn't have any spots to hook up plumbing.  Will
> this be enough to stop the
> oil leak, or at least cut it down a great deal?  Any
> words of advice would
> be much appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
> Greg Gowins
> '69 Sprite
> Dublin, CA
> 
> 


=====
Ron Soave
"A Fool and His Money Can Throw One Hell of a Party"
1960 Bugeye
1972 BGT

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