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Originally Posted by odie
how does the PVC hose suck oil? I thought it just sucked crankcase vapors. There is some oily smoke it's sucking but unless the PVC valve is in direct contact with a pool of oil I don't see how it would suck 3 quarts in just 100 miles.
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Not sure how exactly it happened on the Sprite since I was a mechanical neophyte at the time. But it was easily burning that much oil. The PCV valve on the Sprite did not come out of the valve cover but somewhere on the side of the block--perhaps from the covers over the pushrods. There was a defective check valve or something.
On a Benz, it would require a highly pressurized crankcase to have a similar effect.