Yesterday at 6:46 pm
So I always put catch cans on my vehicles, especially ones that are boosted. But I noticed that the bronco with the 2.3 liter engine it uses slightly different hoses for the pcv line which goes from the intake manifold to the pcv hookup on the side of the block.
The connectors weren't the normal pcv hoses, i've seen on all my other fords.I found out that it's a half inch diameter and you can actually go on amazon. And it was like twelve or thirteen bucks and buy a male and female part together for that type of connextion on the intake manifold's. I posted a picture of it and a link to show you where to buy it.
and then you can just buy any of the cheap catch cans, although what I would recommend is find one that has not just the screw in screen that you put steel wool in, but buy the ones that have the bronze vent cap.I find that those do the best job and then you don't worry about steel wool getting loose and getting in stuff or just dealing with steel wool.
there's plenty of em, and they're basically the exact same thing as like the mishimotos and stuff, I'll post the one I have.There is one caveat
now the catch can, i'm using is actually a leftover from another project of mine, and the problem is, the nipples are 3/8" and because the connectors on the bronco are half inch, I had to use some special adapter hoses that I got from a ju k yard as well as left overs but as long as the catch can you buy has half inch nipples, to hook up to and the catch, can it'll just be super Easy.
basically the hardest part about putting the catch. Can on is getting down to the PCV connection on the side of the block under the intake manifold. But with these adapters, you can just unplug the connector that goes from the PC V up to the intake. Manifold, use the male adapter to plug into the stock hose. So you don't have to take it off and then take the female adapter and plug it into the nipple off the intake manifold. And then now you just have half inch nipple connectors that you can connect to your catch, can, and it makes it so much easier.
And even with the catch, can, which is, I think about forty bucks these days, for the ones that I get, you're only looking at, like fifty five dollars max.With tax and everything.
link to 1/2" hose adapters:
https://www.amazon.com/your-orders/...pmentId=PBGbmjFHp&packageId=1&asin=B0CFY87MSF
link to catch can I p
refer:
now keep in mind, this one uses 5/8 inch hose. You might be able to still get it over the adapter, but I'm not sure I just wanted to show an example. And if you look at my third picture with the red marker that's the bronze screwing vent, a cap that i'm talking about, that, I prefer that I think works better and that most of the good ones like michimoto uses.
don't bother with the other p.C.V hose that connects to the intake. first off any hose on fords In the last couple years at least that have an orange part to the p.C.V.Hose those don't come off unless you break them, they're literally meant to be broken.And replaced, which I think is bull crap, but you don't need to put a catch, can on the intake pipe.
I found it rarely has much crap going through it. Even on a turbo application, what you want is the hose That's going to the intake manifold, that has vacuum drawing off of it at cruising and idle and part throttle.
what they do is they put that second piece of hose on the intake. So that when you are under more throttle or full throttle, there's no vacuum in the intake manifold, but there is a tiny bit of vacuum in the intake pipe. And so it draws off of there, and there's a check valve. That's on the intake Manifold pcv side that prevents boost from going into the crankcase. Because you do not want to pressurize the crankcase. You want it under vacuum. It helps seal up the piston rings as well as suck out the excess pressure of the pistons Going up and down.
but the problem is that you get what's called blow by, which is usually oil water vapor from condensation. A little bit of gas and air that leaks past the rings, and because we don't want that going into the atmosphere. We run it back through the intake Manifold, so it gets burned up. And that's why, when you take your intake Manifold off on cars, it's got that yucky, black liquid lining it and that's why you use catch cans to catch a lot of that.It'll never catch all of it, but it'll do a good job plus like I said you want that vacuum from the intake manifold, or at least a little bit from the intake tube to help the piston rings.seal.And that's why on race engines.They actually have vacuum pumps that are running all the time, putting a good seal on the crankcase and putting a good seal on those piston rings, but you really only need those with race engines.
sorry, I know.This is really long but I wanted to try to explain everything in my reasoning.
And I am gonna put a better hose on to replace that orange one that was just what I had so I could drive it this morning and it worked on a forty mile drive.
The connectors weren't the normal pcv hoses, i've seen on all my other fords.I found out that it's a half inch diameter and you can actually go on amazon. And it was like twelve or thirteen bucks and buy a male and female part together for that type of connextion on the intake manifold's. I posted a picture of it and a link to show you where to buy it.
and then you can just buy any of the cheap catch cans, although what I would recommend is find one that has not just the screw in screen that you put steel wool in, but buy the ones that have the bronze vent cap.I find that those do the best job and then you don't worry about steel wool getting loose and getting in stuff or just dealing with steel wool.
there's plenty of em, and they're basically the exact same thing as like the mishimotos and stuff, I'll post the one I have.There is one caveat
now the catch can, i'm using is actually a leftover from another project of mine, and the problem is, the nipples are 3/8" and because the connectors on the bronco are half inch, I had to use some special adapter hoses that I got from a ju k yard as well as left overs but as long as the catch can you buy has half inch nipples, to hook up to and the catch, can it'll just be super Easy.
basically the hardest part about putting the catch. Can on is getting down to the PCV connection on the side of the block under the intake manifold. But with these adapters, you can just unplug the connector that goes from the PC V up to the intake. Manifold, use the male adapter to plug into the stock hose. So you don't have to take it off and then take the female adapter and plug it into the nipple off the intake manifold. And then now you just have half inch nipple connectors that you can connect to your catch, can, and it makes it so much easier.
And even with the catch, can, which is, I think about forty bucks these days, for the ones that I get, you're only looking at, like fifty five dollars max.With tax and everything.
link to 1/2" hose adapters:
https://www.amazon.com/your-orders/...pmentId=PBGbmjFHp&packageId=1&asin=B0CFY87MSF
link to catch can I p
refer:
now keep in mind, this one uses 5/8 inch hose. You might be able to still get it over the adapter, but I'm not sure I just wanted to show an example. And if you look at my third picture with the red marker that's the bronze screwing vent, a cap that i'm talking about, that, I prefer that I think works better and that most of the good ones like michimoto uses.
don't bother with the other p.C.V hose that connects to the intake. first off any hose on fords In the last couple years at least that have an orange part to the p.C.V.Hose those don't come off unless you break them, they're literally meant to be broken.And replaced, which I think is bull crap, but you don't need to put a catch, can on the intake pipe.
I found it rarely has much crap going through it. Even on a turbo application, what you want is the hose That's going to the intake manifold, that has vacuum drawing off of it at cruising and idle and part throttle.
what they do is they put that second piece of hose on the intake. So that when you are under more throttle or full throttle, there's no vacuum in the intake manifold, but there is a tiny bit of vacuum in the intake pipe. And so it draws off of there, and there's a check valve. That's on the intake Manifold pcv side that prevents boost from going into the crankcase. Because you do not want to pressurize the crankcase. You want it under vacuum. It helps seal up the piston rings as well as suck out the excess pressure of the pistons Going up and down.
but the problem is that you get what's called blow by, which is usually oil water vapor from condensation. A little bit of gas and air that leaks past the rings, and because we don't want that going into the atmosphere. We run it back through the intake Manifold, so it gets burned up. And that's why, when you take your intake Manifold off on cars, it's got that yucky, black liquid lining it and that's why you use catch cans to catch a lot of that.It'll never catch all of it, but it'll do a good job plus like I said you want that vacuum from the intake manifold, or at least a little bit from the intake tube to help the piston rings.seal.And that's why on race engines.They actually have vacuum pumps that are running all the time, putting a good seal on the crankcase and putting a good seal on those piston rings, but you really only need those with race engines.
sorry, I know.This is really long but I wanted to try to explain everything in my reasoning.
And I am gonna put a better hose on to replace that orange one that was just what I had so I could drive it this morning and it worked on a forty mile drive.
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22 badlands; 4door, manual transmission, soft top, non-sas, luxury pkg and a big dog.