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Its often pretty dirty behind the plenum. Have you ever rolled the truck? When upside-down, oil can gravity drain into the intake. Check your PCV valve, see if it rattles, if not, it could be stuck open.
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Some (including myself) have made a small oil catch can and spliced it into the PCV tubing to catch the oil before it gets into the throttle body and makes a big mess.
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Here's some more threads about a catch can:
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f2/p...mileage-86739/
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f2/p...an-mod-127953/
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I think blowby gases would be more like exhaust gases. They are from the rings not sealing good and during the high pressure of the combustion the gases leak by and get into the crank case. From there the crank case vent will route them to the intake by way of the PCV tube (along with oil mist). The more gases that get vented by way of the PCV tube the more oil mist that goes along for the ride. Or that's the way I understand it anyway.
Some (including myself) have made a small oil catch can and spliced it into the PCV tubing to catch the oil before it gets into the throttle body and makes a big mess.
Some (including myself) have made a small oil catch can and spliced it into the PCV tubing to catch the oil before it gets into the throttle body and makes a big mess.
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A friend of mine had blow by so bad on his 5.0 bronco that he had to put a breather on the PCV because he would go through air cleaners like no other. Then one day his breather froze shut and all of his oil left through the dipstick hole while on the highway. He was laughing at the cars passing him because they were caked in oil...until he figured out where it was coming from. You can imagine what his engine looked like afterwards...
Moral: catch can is probably better than a breather.
Moral: catch can is probably better than a breather.
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for instance, on a 22re, there is the hose from the plenum which the PCV valve is connected to and then there is a second hose (early 22re's had it in front of the throttle plates, later 22re's have it from the plenum) which allows filtered air into the valve cover to replace air drawn out throuth the PCV valve. if the valve plugs, positive pressure could blow oil up the other hose.
I'm not sure of the hose routing on the v6 though, but I've seen other engines that supply fresh air to the crankcase system directly after the air filter.
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On the 3.0, the PCV has a hose that goes to the plenum right above it.
It's the "U" shaped hose here.
On my friends 5.0 bronco, the hose ran to the other side of the air filter, so as air came in, the oil would ruin his air filter.
It's the "U" shaped hose here.
On my friends 5.0 bronco, the hose ran to the other side of the air filter, so as air came in, the oil would ruin his air filter.
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