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Ok so ive an mot comming up and running an open turbo with breather venting to atmos, not sure it will pass an mot so is it worth me buying a catch tank and filter off ebay or just stick the breather in a bottle with some small vent holes to stop pressure build up, all info appreciated
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You buy a catch tank off ebay in various shapes and sizes and then you plumb it in. It isnt difficult at all.
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Problem is ive head the cheap ebay ones dont do a good job of catching the oul vapour and just blow it out of the other side , so thought id post as someone on heres bound to have done this before me and found the better solution
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I am having issues with this
I bought a proper nice oil catch tank...and it did nothing!!
So I spotted an idea of Ozones in using a truck fuel filter housing, but its still blowing oil out the breather
So I currently have the oil 'catch tank' fuel filter housing, then a breather which is pointing down with a rattle can cap screwed to it to catch the oil!
see my project thread, theres a pic of it in the last page.
Alternatively pipe it back to the inlet filter. But obviously the point is to stop the oil passing through there
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Meh I used an veg bottle, shoved pipe in the top and put a few holes around the top and shoved pipe in a few inches.. worked for me lol
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Im having the same issue. Haven't done it yet but I've read around and the best thing to do is stick wire wool in the tank apparently.
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Yeah i heard about using wire wool before, may just chuck it in a bottle for now then and look into proper tanks at a later date, thanks people
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I used a proper 50/50 mesh partition with wire wool in one half... still didnt work and kept blowing oil all over me turbo!
Best solution for me so far was few months back where I just had a breather filter (the little ones) rammed in the top of a 1 pint plastic milk bottle. Worked 100%!