dcfluid

So sucking a ounces of water into your motor doesn't cause a problem like hydrolock or ignition suppression? Just the few grams of oil is a problem?
Agreed that oil and acids are pollutants and water isn't.
The ultimate fix is to run a perfectly efficient catch can for emissions and the CAC hole to vent condensed water vapor from the incoming air.

papa tiger

Ultimately it is a something like a centrifugal separator that makes it better for the cost of the spare tire and wheel.

maplelakeduckslayer

Mine drips a lot more oil than one drop every 10,000 miles haha. Every day I drive my truck a whale dies.

Papa...this is a serious question. Are you drunk all the time or something? Half the time I read what you post and I have no idea what you are saying...serious. I don't care about your position...not saying you are right or wrong. But half the time I don't even understand what you are trying to say. Cost of the spare tire and wheel? Does anybody else understand this?

maplelakeduckslayer

As far as pollution...one way or another it ends up somewhere on this Earth. Nothing magically disappears. If you drive the truck as its set up from the factory...it gets burned in the engine, goes out the tailpipe into the sky, condenses with water in the clouds, and comes back to earth as rain. If you drill a hole, its a lot shorter process, it just falls on the ground. If you use a catch can, you drain it and throw it in the garbage, eventually ends up in a landfill, going into the ground. If you properly dispose of it.. Oil recycling center...it gets recycled(recycling produces pollution) and gets used again...then the options for what happens to the recycled oil start all over again.

LastResort

Gentlemen this brings me to my next point.. don't smoke crack.

papa tiger

So up the street that guy dumps all his old oil on your yard and 65 EB's drain theirs from the CAC's in the School parking lot ?

oldwrench

There was a time, long ago, that the center of the lanes at stop lights were very oil covered. When riding a motorcycle, you had to avoid the center grease strip. We have cleaned things up quite a bit. Yes, It would be nice if the water would be dumped on the pavement and the separated oil gets diverted to the exhaust before the CAT.

papa tiger

I remember one very hot afternoon getting caught in a flash rainstorm on the motorcycle dressed in a white T shirt being turned mostly black by oil coming off the Highway rain spray in 1967. Hair all matted down greasy and sunglasses almost ruined. Had to shower and soap up several times to get it off. Worst afternoon of my life. Happened in the County on a major east west 2 lane highway going East.
I know, it is off subject.
I'm going to believe changing the angle of the CAC lower side tanks design would help most especially at the outlet while adding a way for the droplets to wick-up it in small sizes.. I'm thinking a swirl of groves around the outlet inside diameter or a straw would guide them upward. Thus getting rid of the condensate before they become a glob caught there near the outlet. Not so hard of an engineering feat to overcome if desired since a cubic meter of air can contain slightly less than 2 grams of water in it.

oldwrench

The problem being that after 2 hours of driving, the CAC condensed a bunch of water out of the air. Then, you jump on the throttle to pass someone and all that water gets sucked in at one time. Was it enough to hydro-lock a cylinder? Bam! Maybe it was just enough to quench the red hot spark plug insulators...crack! Now you have to replace plugs again. All that steam in the CAT now took that out too.


I think the simple fix would be a vented container to catch the fluid coming out of the drilled hole. The problem is fixed AND we collect the juice.

snobdds

What? Try that again because you are making absolutely no sense.