Blow By Tube Froze Up

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nate

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I was towing a couple days ago and started smelling oil. Well pop the hood and oil was blowing out the dipstick. Lost about 2 quarts.

Was not fun disco'ing the blowby tube at -36*!

I just took the pipe off the deal that screws in the timing cover and ran it like that for the rest of the trip.

The setup I had was the stock pipe to a 90* and about 5 ft of 3/4" heater hose to over the crossmember that is right by the fuel tank.

Not sure where it froze up, I think maybe the elbow but it was too cold to really mess with it. The heater hose was running downhill too... guess that didn't help.


Anyone come up with a better way to do this for the cold?
 
nate said:
I was towing a couple days ago and started smelling oil. Well pop the hood and oil was blowing out the dipstick. Lost about 2 quarts.

Was not fun disco'ing the blowby tube at -36*!

I just took the pipe off the deal that screws in the timing cover and ran it like that for the rest of the trip.

The setup I had was the stock pipe to a 90* and about 5 ft of 3/4" heater hose to over the crossmember that is right by the fuel tank.

Not sure where it froze up, I think maybe the elbow but it was too cold to really mess with it. The heater hose was running downhill too... guess that didn't help.


Anyone come up with a better way to do this for the cold?
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Did you say -36*!! ?!? !! As in 0, then subtract 36 degrees ?

F--- that sir, f--- that. :bang
 
Hey, we got snow here in Vegas, so that means Hell froze over....

-36*F is probably cold enough to freeze the radiator at cruise speed without a block off. That my friend is COLD!
 
your problem is the long horizontal run of hose... that's fine when it's warm, but when it's cold, your oil gells up in the hose, and any condensation obviously freezes as well
 
Forrest Nearing said:
your problem is the long horizontal run of hose... that's fine when it's warm, but when it's cold, your oil gells up in the hose, and any condensation obviously freezes as well
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There you have it. Shorten the hose and remain as vertical as you can with it.
 
Yeah it got down to -39*, it was a bit cold haha.

This was in Yukon on my way to Alaska. Found out that -40*F is also -40*C... but either way, yes it's freaking could. I unhooked the the bypass and fired up the truck. The air moving from the fan about took my breath away.

BTW, my truck fired up just fine at those temps without being plugged in. Well... ok it sounded like a PowerJoke, but it still fired up.
 
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