Oil Catch Can installed wrong?

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nevertheless
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I think I have my Oil Catch can hooked up wrong. After driving it for awhile, It started to dish out white Smoke out the exhaust really BAD.

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I made a T out of the intake hose.


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nvm DELETE

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We don't do that here... was it the catch can, or coolant burning?

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Is that the correct place for the return line from the catch can? Mine goes to the intake right before the turbo.

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Valve cover -> Intake

You have to be sucking air out of the catch can, not pressurizing it!

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Ok good then. Mine is "sucking"

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Yes.
It has to be before the turbo.
That way, the turbo creates a vacuum in the catch can and it will suck any blowby at that valve cover.

If you hook it up to a line that is connected to the intercooler, you'll be shooting boost into catch can and your valve cover, which is the opposite of what you want.

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Yeah I have a nipple in my intake piping right before the turbo which is where I connect the hosing from the catch can. Seems I got that right which is good lol.

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yeah i found that out... FAIL


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