Message-ID: <387435A7.5F7E665F@innercite.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 22:26:47 -0800
From: Steve & Claudette Colwell <colwell@innercite.com>
Reply-To: colwell@innercite.com
Organization: Ms Colwell
To: ByronMFox@aol.com, lancair.list@olsusa.com
Subject: Re: Air/oil separators
References: <8c.8c1c2c03.25a53743@aol.com>
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> Hi Steve:
> 
> I thought your comments were very useful.  Can you describe your "catch
> can" 
> to me and where you have located it in the engine compartment? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Byron Fox 
        
> N3144C

Byron, the catch can I am using on my RV6 with a O-360 is a 12 oz metal can
with a screw off cap that is about an inch or so in diameter, similar to a
brake fluid can and attached to the motor mount with a couple of adel
clamps.  I am getting 1.5 to 2 oz of blow-by in 25 hr of operation, my oil
change interval. 
Run the oil return line into the cap of the can with a AN fitting and drill
a 1/8 inch hole for a vent.  I use a 3 oz veterinary syringe with a piece of
1/8" od alum tubing to pull the gunk (you would not want this stuff back in
your engine) and measure it at the same time.  I routed the crankcase vent
to 1/4 inch over the top of one of the exhaust stacks to vaporize the
remaining oil mist and heat the vent outlet (these have been known to ice
up).  The air/oil separator is the one sold by AC Spruce.   Steve
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