Hey y'all!

Would you mind entertaining a silly question for one moment?

I just spent a good amount of time cleaning out my OM616's intake manifold. Lots of grime and grease. I imagine a tremendous amount of it came from the EGR (which I deleted), but also this Oil Separator. Sure enough, the clamp from my Separator to the Manifold was a little loose, and it's been spitting some oil in the bay.

My question is.... Is there any other way to route or remove these Oil Separator components so they don't feed back into the manifold? Can the Oil Separator be removed entirely? Is there a way to minimize this at all? If I ran the valve cover line directly down to the tube that leads into the oil pan, I suppose I'd have a gas pressure problem? I think. I've seen older w123s without Separators, but I'm also very ignorant to this topic.

Any help or insight on oil separators would be great! Thank youuuu!


**EDITED TO INCLUDE AN EXAMPLE OF A EURO 240D (without separator)

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