On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:38:33 -0800 "Jay
Laifman"<Jay_Laifman(at)countrywide.com> writes:
>
>Studs? Don't they interfere with the oil filter block?
No, but they do have to be short enough to just allow for the nut.
>My understanding was that the side plate was a hold over from the days
>when
>side valves had to be adjusted, or something like that. If you are
>not
>using a PCV, do you need the outlet? Someone once suggested that
>there has
>to be an outlet for the pressure, even if it is not dumped back into
>the
>intake manifold. But, isn't the chamber where the side plate is all
>part
>of the same chamber that goes from the crank, up between the tappets,
>along
>the push rods and to the valve cover, which is open though the vents
>in the
>oil cap? (I have the earlier cap which vents out the bottom sides).
>If
>so, why do you need the extra opening? Is the cap not enough? Will
>the
>pressures in the engine pop it off?
>
>Jay
The hole in the late oil filler is a little small particularly for higher
blowby engines.
The earlier engine caps will pop off at high blowby without the earlier
side plate (Ive had this happen to me).
Also, you get a lot of oil vapour without an oil seperator, and the top
of
your engine will get greasy fast.
This is the same reason that the pistons
inside the strombergs get oiled up from the blowby in the hose that
connects the filters to the side cover. At WOT, the PCV does nothing,
and the flow goes from the crankcase into the filters instead of vice
versa.
The earlier non PCV setups have an long angled tube that allows the oil
and
gas vapours to be dumped below the car.
This also has the tendancy to foul the right pitman arm and the crosslink
tube.
At speed, you might not even smell the vapours. At idle, put on thy holy
gas mask.
For the money, I'd buy one of those non-restrictive breather filters, and
run it above the side cover tube. This will act as a reasonable breather
as well as an oil trap. The oil filler hose barb will have to be
blocked.
Jarrid
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