Any ideas on a 300d oil separator??
 

Well, I tracked down the oil leak to the air cleaner after some very good advice I recieved here on an earlier post. However, the leak is not in the drain tube from the air cleaner as was suspected. The oil is running out of the oil separator in the air cleaner, out a hole, onto the intake manifold, and down the block. My question is, how to I get the oil separator to work a bit harder and get all the oil out the crankcase gas? The PO had the motor rebuilt and it now has 50k on the rebuild. I would think perhaps he botched the ring job and im getting loads of blowby but this thing fires right up when its in the low 30's here without being plugged in. I have heard of a method some have used that seals up the internal baffle under the valve cover to help with this. Should I try that? Where do I seal it up? Also, could the separator have gone bad? I go through a LOT of oil so this has to be slowed down by one method or another. Any ideas???

anyone???
 

C'mon, somebody has to know about the baffle seal-up under the valve cover. does anyone think thicker oil would help?

Have you changed over to the newer design breather tube? If you have a round tube between the valve cover and the air cleaner housing, that's the old design. The new design is a soft, flat rubber tube. I can't explain why, but it's supposed to reduce the amount of liquid spray oil sent to the oil separator.

A search on "breather tube" should get you the part number of the new item.

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Its a non-turbo. The car was only 300 bucks and runs great other than the oil habbit. I was just hoping that a cheap fix was possible. Does anyone feel that valve seals would help slow it down? What about thicker oil like 20w-50? Im using 15-40 right now. Anything to slow it down would be helpful. What would the coarse steel wool do in the valve cover to separator line? Thanks for the replies!!!