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Originally Posted by Steve300
This is for 1985 300D Turbo California model
I found the breather hose from top of the valve cover goes to 2 places:
(1) Top of air filter
(2) Turbo intake
No wonder the air filter/housing and turbo areas are always oily.
I am tempted to connect the breather hose directly to close to ground. However, it is not good for the environment and it is against the law.
Is there other ways to re-route this breather hose to another place, like some oil separator device, etc?
Thank you
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My breather tube was vented to the atmosphere when I got the vehicle (PO "upgrade"). Under certain conditions, I'd get a cloud of smoke coming out from under the front of the car. It also bathed the LCA bushing in motor oil, which didn't do it no favors.
When I replaced the butched air filter system with a stock setup, I ran across a posting here (by Brandon314?) about sealing the oil separator in the air cleaner to keep the oil off the air filter. Since everything was in pieces, I went ahead and tried it. I've got 4000+ miles on the car since and still not a speck of oil on the air filters. Of course, I don't have the California variant and a its a couple of years older as well.