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

The exhaust. Many Powerstroke owners do it, search the pickup forums.

for starters, rip out all that Ca. junk and change it like an 83 set up is.

The fed. cars have the breather going to the air filter that is on to of the engine, compared to the Ca. set up with the filter behind the headlight.

the problem with the Ca. cars is there is no drain tube in the upper oil pan for the oil drain from the breather.

some of the early MB had the oil vapors going to the U tube and sucking them through the intake and burning them.

some camps here don`t like that idea, saying it will damage the blades of the turbo, it will gunk up the intake manifold. not if the EGR is dissabled. the EGR really fills it with crap.

I saw one at PNP with this set up, there is a flat spot in the U tube a gromet fits into and the hose going to that.

as you said, let er hang down. lot of the big rigs do, it`s called a draft tube/hose. vehicles say before 1960 all had a breather tube. then the PCV vale was introduced, and down hill from there.

Charlie

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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.

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