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The whole reason for the PCV is to keep the combustion chamber oil vapors from being dumped onto the roadways & swirling into the air.
Back then between the tire tracks, cement roads would be a nasty black, vehicles still drip oil onto the highway, if you drive on a concrete road & it has a bump in it, look at the road just after that bump, it will be blackish
All engines have a combustion chamber, in that chamber pressure & heat build up & that pressure needs to be relieved, originally on the side of 6 cylinder engines & the rear of a 8 cylinder engine, they used to have a Road Draft Tube,
This video beginning around the 10 minute point, this gent is converting his 6 cylinder Chevy truck over to a PVC system, he has to remove the Road Draft Tube & does a fair job of explaining everything
I don't know about you, but that video brings back many fond memories
Back then between the tire tracks, cement roads would be a nasty black, vehicles still drip oil onto the highway, if you drive on a concrete road & it has a bump in it, look at the road just after that bump, it will be blackish
All engines have a combustion chamber, in that chamber pressure & heat build up & that pressure needs to be relieved, originally on the side of 6 cylinder engines & the rear of a 8 cylinder engine, they used to have a Road Draft Tube,
This video beginning around the 10 minute point, this gent is converting his 6 cylinder Chevy truck over to a PVC system, he has to remove the Road Draft Tube & does a fair job of explaining everything
1949 Chevy 3100, Installing a PCV, Volume 38, PM part 3.
In this episode I install a PCV onto the 1954 235 engine I installed in my 1949 Chevy 3100. I also upgrade the front turn signal/parking lights to amber/whit...
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I don't know about you, but that video brings back many fond memories