ARE CATCH CANS WORTH IT FOR OLD 4WDS? | 3000km CATCH CAN CHECK

so what we're gonna have a look at now is how much oil is actually collected the past three thousand kilometers all right so along with the surface we're also installing a ryko catch can so this is basically gonna be catching any oil vapor that comes through the crankcase breather hose so it goes between there stops any oil going back to the engine keeps it cleaner keeps it running nicer um once i head on my big interstate trip um i'll after like a thousand cases or so i'll uh see how much oil has been collected in it so um pretty easy to install comes with all the goods you need all the little hose fittings and brackets and all that so it's pretty easy package i'm gonna make a custom bracket up just to mount it off the brake booster bolts um and then we should be laughing so the catch can comes with a universal mounting bracket which basically allows you to mount it wherever you'd like um i wanted to put mine just off the crankcase breather hose so that required me to make sort of a custom bracket because i wanted to set it off the brake booster but the brake lines in the way so i needed a custom rack to make this work but there's plenty of ways to do this so just do it whatever way you're most comfortable with you like that yeah that's what i was saying before how to vibrate my little bracket i made up looks like it wanted to vibrate a lot but once i kicked all the hoses up it didn't want to move it was solid um so this is the oil that basically our catch can is going to be collecting as you can see where my thumb is that's oil that's come through the crank case um breathe the hose and it's going back into my engine so i don't want that back in my intake because i was going to clog it up and make it all disgusting um so that's why you get a catch can because it's going to collect all this okay let me do a more technical explanation of this so this is my crank case and this is the hose known as the pcv hose or positive crankcase ventilation hose this is for letting out positive pressure see when the pistons are moving up and down some high pressure from the combustion is going to escape past the piston rings and into your crank case this is called blow by and this needs to escape your crankcase and this is where your pcv comes in which simply leaks back into your air intake however oil that gets past your piston rings from blow by can then also get into your air intake and then into inlet valves and that can clog them up now this is especially important on direct injected engines like my 182t which because unlike port injected engines where fuel is sprayed onto the inlet valves essentially cleaning them direct injection happens downstream from those valves so they never get cleaned and this is why you see horror stories of modern comrade diesel engines where their intake gets all gummed up so i'm basically just now running my hoses bottom hose into the bottom here and then our top hose goes straight back into our air intake we've then cleaned air so none of this vapor residue is going to be in it so yeah so it should be good so the riko kit comes with a bunch of different adapter hoses so um i've got the 5 8s on here so put that onto my bottom hose and then i'll cut this bit of horizon i found the garage cut that up and put it into here [Music] all right so when it comes to draining this thing it's actually got a little drain plug on the bottom which you can just remove this little rubber seal and then that'll allow it to be to constantly drain from the bottom so we'll remove the rubber seal screw this back in they include a hose and they include a little tap that obviously once you have a screw in you can just push that little red in and then it will drain we'll include a little a little tap in it run a little hose and run that down below the car where we can then drain our oil out into a little container or something whenever we need to so i've just plugged up a little tappy as you can see it just comes out the bottom and then we come to our little tap down here where we can then let the oil out so i'll cut this to size and work out where i want to sit um but obviously catch can't go in there doing one plumbing up here and then all my excess oil will come out here where i can drain into a container so rico includes all the hose clamps and fittings you need so it's basically just plug and play it's super easy so right now i'm just doing all the hoses for the catch can itself so um you obviously have to get your own piping um but that's super easy to get um and they have the rest all included in the kit so it's pretty straightforward really boom catch can installed so for the drain hurries we've just run that down yeah and then when obviously it gets full of oil i can just undo that little push in that little tap and drama oil out so that'll be no worries so the verico catch cans now installed it was super easy until it was 10-15 minutes i think the most time-consuming part would have been the fabricating of our little mount um but obviously in it's designed for all different cars it's a universal system so um you can really put it everywhere you want i just want to put mine here because close proximity but it turned out looking all really nice um so yeah interesting to see how much oil it actually collects um but obviously i'll keep an eye on that over my trip and see how it goes but yeah it's in there pretty securely so it's not gonna go anywhere and um yeah super easy it's a good kit because it does come with everything you need um it comes with all your little fittings and everything so that's grouse all right so now we'll start the car um we'll just check for leaks it's probably not going to be really anything because it's just like oil paper um coming out so but we'll just see make sure everything's all good and yeah all right so it's been about 3 000 kilometers since i serviced the car and put the catch cane on still going great um the brackets as you can see we want to attach all the hoses it's really pretty solid it's not flimsy at all so homemade brackets doing great um it's not rubbing through anything so that's been fantastic so what we're gonna have a look at now is how much oil is actually collected the past three thousand kilometers so i will let you know it's been we're doing a lot of driving in the past thousand cases a lot of snow driving a lot of hard full driving a lot of revving the car at quite high rpm so it's done a fair bit of work it hasn't just been every time i take this car out it's either going full driving or it's on a trip i barely ever take it to the shops or anything like that so it's the most of us driving it does is fairly hard work for it i'd say so keep that in mind we'll check how much oil has been collected how much blow by we're getting and hopefully it's not too much so let's have a look all right so i've got a measurement cup here um thanks liam cut this up for me so basically i mean the easy thing about this uh catch can is i can literally just push in this tap and let the oil soak out so i'll let liam get a good shot in there for you oh that's a good room in the garden see this is i need a suspension lift so i can get the camera under the tire all right oh you're recording yeah i must have liked it don't worry so unfortunately we missed the big moment but right now i'll show you what was in the coke can all right that's it all drained all right sorry about all that cutting we had to try and jam the kind of camera under the wheel arch and it was a pain but here's all the oil that the catch can has caught in our little coat can so i mean there's a little bit in there i mean that obviously would be going straight into your intake um so i'd rather it not be going straight in there and putting it into a catch can so i i um obviously it would have filled up the filter inside of the actual catch can itself first and then whatever's hasn't been caught by that comes down and gets soaked at the uh little drain plug on the bottom but yeah that oil is what has been caught which is i mean i always thought that you know a lot of people say catch cans don't you don't need them on like older diesels just put them on like newer comrade diesels but for an older diesel that might have a slight bit of blow-by which look this thing doesn't have crazy blow-by but i think when you even when you do send your four-wheel drive quite hard it can produce a little bit like this is nothing this is no oil and the dipstick still says it's full so it's not like going through oil heart or anything but i mean it just helps keep it out of your intake manifold and um better to collect it into a can and throw it away than have it go back into your engines and i know like a lot of people just sort of can vent to atmosphere or just dump it on the ground and you can but if you want to keep it legal catch can is really the only way to go about it um and i think it's a pretty cheap insurance to be legal and to also keep your uh intake clean from all this oil so i think it's a pretty good mod to do um recommend it and it's super easy you can do yourself at home and look it took me like i don't know 40 minutes to install it really not long the longest part would probably make my own little custom bracket to put it where i want to put it but you can put it wherever you want but yeah good mod maybe you don't mount your tap that low i did notice like having the tap right in your wheel arch and if you're going to go through both holes and stuff the little tap itself on the bottom kind of gets clogged and a bit hard to use so maybe mount a bit higher don't mount that low i'll probably go change that but yeah proof is in the pudding catch cans way to go

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Id: AxBwMC9R4C8

Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 12 2021