What is the purpose of the oil catch can? I see no use for it?.......A waste of money..please help

 

I just put a new throttle body on my car, the car only has 3,000 miles and I don't drive it hard for the most part. When I saw how much oil was in the throttle body I had the catch can installed the next day.

 

Smartest $22 I ever spent...........

Dusty

 

But what does it do????

 

It catches the oil mist blow-by that gets past the PCV valve and keeps it from gunking up the throttle body, your engine, and your intercooler all of which will make for less power and possible shorter engine life.........

Dusty

 

We just had an SRT-4 at the shop that was wrecked in the front. This car had no catch can and when we removed the intercooler, WOW! There was oil literally puddled in the intercooler. It was also dripping out of the uppipe that goes to the throttlebody. This car only had 31,000 miles on it and was saturated in blow by oil. Thankfully I put my catchcan (which I empty about once every 1 1/2 weeks) on my car at around the 500 mile mark. I now have 14,200 miles on my baby and couldn't imagine all of the oil I've emptied out of the OCC being in my piping and intercooler. The amount of blow by increased a bit with the addition of stg 2, so I can only imagine it's worse for stg 3. Do yourself a HUGE favor and get an OCC! Your engine will be much happier

 

I will do that...is there any way that I can check to see of the oil is in the piping, intercooler, and the throttle body.....maybe besides taking it all apart