Maintenance free Crankcase filter

[Tmaj12k]

(02-28-2018 )Rawze Wrote:  

(02-28-2018 )Tmaj12k Wrote:  My housing had a crack in the bottom. I have lots of blow by so my filter gets dirty pretty quick. It needs to be changed every pm at 10k miles. The oil that was building up inside the filter was spraying out as I drove. I had to rig it up to get back home without losing oil. Take a look. Made it from Pennsylvania back to New Jersey.

I would not recommend anyone doing what you did except in some dire temporary emergency just long enough to get you off the side of the road. It is no longer separating oil from the crank case fumes with it piped that way. - The maint. free filter works just fine on higher blo-by engines and still separates the oil from the fumes quite well too. Hopefully you plan on correcting it as soon as possible.

Hey Rawze. Can you explain what can happen with the oil and fumes not being separated? I drove like this for a couple of days until I could buy a new complete unit. I noticed increased smoke from the blow by tube underneath the truck. I also had an increase in oil consumption. Before the housing cracked, my filters would get dirty pretty quick. There was a significant amount of oil going through the crank case.