Filter catch can

[Condisales]

ZugyNA - We'd love to get the price down under $100 - however it's not going to happen any time soon. Maybe within a year or so.


95 metro - you wrote :Those filters are for filtering air in regulated compressed air systems, not for filtering fluids.

Tom

[95metro]

So, what do you think, guys? Should I take the free Condensator?

Condisales says they don't have much feedback from Metro owners and my "review" could not be used as a user testamonial since it was a free unit. I guess as long as I posted a review of the product on Gassavers then people who actually look for information could find it and judge for themselves.

I'm not certain how I could quantify any results as yet, plus I haven't even owned the car long enough to have a yearly or normal baseline established as to my average FE.

I think I could objectively test it even though I have my doubts as to its actual fuel-saving capabilities.

Worse comes to worse, I guess it's a free catchcan. What do you think?

Maybe MetroMPG would be the better recipient since he's the testing guru.

[SVOboy]

Darin doesn't drive enough miles though, oh my! I say: go for it, captain.

[kickflipjr]

It seems like my catch can filled up faster when i was driving more highway.

Real cheap and easy PCV jar:

* find a location for one...a good idea is somewhere it will get heat from the rad so the water will evaporate out.

* go the the grocery and by a glass jar of pickles (or ?) with a metal lid or maybe plastic.

* by some low pressure fuel line about the same diameter as your current PCV line.

* take a large tapered punch and put some holes in the metal lid...or drill some in plastic. These must be undersized relative to the OD of the gas line.

* cut the line to length and force them into the lid...having the INLET line going down about 1/2 the depth of the jar. The OUTLET line needs to be just inside the lid. Some silicone caulk will help to seal them if used around the top of the lines.

* purchase a copper or stainless scrubber and tear it apart...putting some of the mesh in the bottom 1/2 of the jar....leave no lose pieces.

* you can make a wire cage to hold the jar...or you might find a space where it will fit. If there is any problem with possible breakage...use some foam tape or innertube rubber to protect the outside of the jar.

* size the jar so you don't have to empty it too often...a pint jar is about right.

So you can make a catchcan out of anything with an inlet/outlet for air? Seems easy and cheap enough.

[ZugyNA]

Originally Posted by kickflipjr

It seems like my catch can filled up faster when i was driving more highway.
So you can make a catchcan out of anything with an inlet/outlet for air? Seems easy and cheap enough.

These are pretty specific plans...derived from some experience. Use this design or learn on your own?

[SVOboy]

Updated and www.crxmpg.com/pcv.html

If anyone has pictures to show the thing in action, lemme know,

[kickflipjr]

So, after 2,000 or so miles my catch can is nearly full.

[SVOboy]

Mine totally dropped off on the fill rate, Iono why, but I don't mind,

[zpiloto]

After I hooked mine up for about two tanks it was full of this yellowish substance. I thought that the head gasket was going but it stopped and I have not seen anything since. I'll put it on any car I own. Mine need to be empty about every 3000 miles.

[UfoTofU]

I installed one about 1000 miles ago. The gasket between the plastic resevoir that fills up and the threaded head of the filter itself keeps moving out of place. Like it is getting sucked into the resevoir. Is this normal? Is the vacuum enough to move the gasket out of place?