Help! Need a part #

legacy92ej22t · Post by **legacy92ej22t** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:21 pm

I need the part # for the black plastic PCV part in this pic that looks kinda like a F. ANy help is appreciated as mine broke and my car is sitting....AGAIN! Oh and I'm late for work, the start of a great day.

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:35 pm

http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic. ... ight=f+pcv

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:41 pm

Crap, it broke? It seems so stupid to use plastic for that part.

What part of it broke? It wouldn't necessarily be great for the engine or the environment but maybe you could put a piece of cloth as a filter over whatever part that broke and limp the car to work with a vented crankcase.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:46 pm

I am going to see about replacing that stupid thing. It doesn't fit at ALL with a 16G.

I'm just gonna extend the line with some heater hose or something, then hack that peice up and frankenstein is all together. Soon as I get an uppipe.

Your upper coolant line is different than mine. But mine is from the stock 16G. It points the other direction (towards the passenger side strut tower).

Vikash - Have you heard ANYTHING from CES lately? I STILL haven't gotten a reply

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:56 pm

I'm just concerned about monkeying with a system I don't understand. From all I can tell I should assume it's very fragile and sensitive to geometry.

I haven't heard from CES either. I sent Jeff another email a little while ago... I hope those guys are okay.

I wonder if it's worth trying to whip up a replacement for the plastic F-pipe with some copper from a local hardware store. You could make the main body by carefully bending a piece of 1/2" soft pipe (maybe annealing it first with a torch to make sure it'll bend willingly), and then use a Dremel with a carbide cutter bit to cut an opening for the leg that goes to the PCV valve. That leg would also be a very short piece of 1/2" soft copper pipe. Then you'd just have to figure out how to make the bottom of the pipe go from 1/2" OD to 3/4" OD.

I wonder if that would even work right.

I believe Jerry from Deadbolt told me you can reuse the stock VF11 coolant line if you just widen the hole in the banjo from 10mm to 12mm.

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:57 pm

Oh, this might also be a good place to remind people that my vacuum diagrams page also has a pretty useful diagram of the PCV system:

http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~v/vacuum/

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:59 pm

Oh wait -- the lower horizontal leg would need to be 5/8".

So maybe the whole body should be 5/8", and then the top leg could be added on with 1/2" pipe.

Matt Monson · Post by **Matt Monson** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:05 pm

I think I have one of those little F's in the box of parts from my EJ22T dismantle. Can you wait a day or two to order it from the dealer? If I have one, I will let it go cheap...

jake15 · Post by **jake15** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:55 am

i did what phil was suggesting. i frankensteined it together. works fine so far. all you have to do is cut it in half and put a piece of hose on it to extend it.

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:57 am

FWIW matt the corresponding piece broke on my engine, and it drove alright, stumbled a few times.

legacy92ej22t · Post by **legacy92ej22t** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:59 am

vrg3 wrote:Crap, it broke? It seems so stupid to use plastic for that part.

What part of it broke?

Ya, I was trying to put a new compressor outlet hose on, my old one is hosed and torn causing a severe vac and boost leak. When I moved that piece it snaped right off. The bottom part that goes into the hose broke of in the hose.

I haven't heard from CES either since the F&S. I'm kinda starting to worry...

Matt- I might be able to wait, that'd be cool if you have one. Pm me and let me know how much you want for it.

Jake- That's a pretty good idea. I was kind of concidering doing something similar to that. It's going to be a major bitch getting to the lower clamp though.

Hardy- Did it blow oil all over your engine though?

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:21 am

mikec · Post by **mikec** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:11 pm

Mine broke in the same place when I last replaced my PCV valve in the cold.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:23 pm

I think it's because the hose has no play in it. I almost broke mine when trying to bend it on that hose. I replaced that hose with a longer length of heater hose, and that was that.

I'm pulling my turbo again soon anyway, so I'll just figure something out then.

jake15 · Post by **jake15** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:42 pm

here's a picture of what i did, which was basically cut it in half and then piece it together with some hose. i disconnected in the picture on accident while taking out my i/c.

legacy92ej22t · Post by **legacy92ej22t** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:52 am

Mine broke at the bottom. I did fix it though. I cut the F piece in half, put a new hose off the block to a 3/4"-5/8" adapter and rigged it all together. It turned out pretty good. Boy was it ever a bitch to get the clamp back on the 3/4" hose coming off the block though, damn it was rough. It seriously took me probably 40 minutes to get it on.

I got it all together and went for a test drive though and my oil light came on. I pulled over and the car was idling very, very rough. It was also clacking so loud from the #4 cylinder that I wanted to cry. I went to check my oil, with the engine still running, and when I pulled the dip stick full on exhaust starting coming out of it. It was crazy. It was full on exhaust pulses. It looked like a tractor's exhaust stack.

I'm starting to think that the damage on #4 is more then just rings and that the piston might have a hole in it or severe crack or something. Pretty depressing.

The engine was so low on oil that it didn't register on the dip stick.

I went home and put in a quart and a half that I had and it still didn't register. I guess the #4 is eating oil at an unbelievable rate as I just changed the oil a few weeks back and have hardly been driving the car at all.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:10 am

When my valve went I ate about a quart a day with moderate driving distance for the two or three days before it finally let go.

Steve

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