provent where did you mount yours !update!

Crazy8svt · **Posted:** Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:26 pm

i bought a mann 200 provent (http://www.idparts.com/catalog/product_ ... ts_id=2334) i seen someone here had one installed was wanting to know where you mounted yours isn't a whole lot of room to work with

arengant · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2013 1:48 pm

I put mine on the passenger side right behind the vacuum module, next to the TCM and in front of the coolant reservoir.

Crazy8svt · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2013 1:53 pm

arengant wrote:

I put mine on the passenger side right behind the vacuum module, next to the TCM and in front of the coolant reservoir.

If you could a picture would be great I figured it'll have to go there

kjjet · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:05 pm

Mine is on the drivers side behind the battery. I made a bracket to mount on the same attaching bolts as the ECM. It drains down to the bottom of the engine where i installed a cap. I drain it at least every oil change. But i do check it at times.

Hexus · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:35 pm

Pics or it didn't happen.

arengant · **Posted:** Sun Apr 07, 2013 1:03 am

I pulled the idea for mine off of pictures on here, but I guess it wouldn't hurt for me to take some pictures to get some recent shots on here. I will try and get some tomorrow.

kjjet · **Posted:** Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:50 pm

Hexus wrote:

Pics or it didn't happen.

Dam... I guess it did not happen? I don't know how to upload pic's. If someone can explain how, I can post pic's?

Crazy8svt · **Posted:** Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:59 pm

kjjet wrote:

Hexus wrote:

Pics or it didn't happen.

Dam... I guess it did not happen? I don't know how to upload pic's. If someone can explain how, I can post pic's?

i had to go to a website called imageshack you put your pictures there and past then to a url in the above options if you dont want to deal with that pm me and ill give you my email

Hexus · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:32 am

Photobucket is one of the good ones too, it's free and the interface is intuitive.

http://www.photobucket.com

It even gives you clickable copy-paste for vbb (code this forum is written in).

Drewd · **Joined:** Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:24 pm **Posts:** 902

Used a large (air conditioning) ziptie and zipped it to the ECU with some foam between the two. Been like this for 6 years 100+k miles with no issues.

arengant · **Posted:** Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:34 pm

Here is mine, no zip ties (but I should) and you can see where some oil seeps out around the connection point, even with RTV. I will clean it up and make a solid mount eventually.

Dennis MacGyver · **Posted:** Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:58 am

arengant wrote:

Here is mine, no zip ties (but I should) and you can see where some oil seeps out around the connection point, even with RTV. I will clean it up and make a solid mount eventually.

I have mine installed in the same manner. How do you deal with the oil it produces ?
I just completed a 1300 mile trip and had 3+ ounces in my bottle below the air filter,
My plan is to return the drippings to the oil pan by cutting into the dip stick tube (long route)
or preferably into the turbo drain line to the pan ?

Suggestions ??

audiboy86 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:33 am

I would not return anything blown out through the CCVs to the motor considering all the possible things it has picked up. It would almost be like doing and oil change and emptying the old filters oil into the new oil while putting it in.

Dennis MacGyver · **Posted:** Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:41 am

audiboy86 wrote:

I would not return anything blown out through the CCVs to the motor considering all the possible things it has picked up. It would almost be like doing and oil change and emptying the old filters oil into the new oil while putting it in.

With the Coalescing oil filter ( Mann Provent ), it is standard industry fair for the oil to be returned to the oil pan. This process has been in place since the early 1980's (my '85 BMW 524td has a factory installed coalescing unit). The CCV on the CRD is wholly inadequate to coalesce and return
oil to the system. "Big Rig" diesel trucks have the same type oil vapor return systems ( Coalescing ) in place.

Oil "blown out" by the CRD's CCV and is every bit as clean as oil in the crank case, and as standard industry fair, should be returned to the crank case. Google "coalescing oil filter" to satisfy your knowledge base.

arengant · **Posted:** Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:49 pm

Right now I drain it. Very quick and clean. It would be nice to return it to the sump but not worth the effort now. I buy the gallon size T6 so even with my larger oil filter I have a little extra to top off the oil between changes. I think my ccv lets an above average amount of oil through though.

Dennis MacGyver · **Posted:** Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:12 pm

arengant wrote:

Right now I drain it. Very quick and clean. It would be nice to return it to the sump but not worth the effort now. I buy the gallon size T6 so even with my larger oil filter I have a little extra to top off the oil between changes. I think my ccv lets an above average amount of oil through though.

I cut up some Scotch Brite discs and filled the empty space inside the CCV to help it catch more oil vapor before going onto the ProVent. What volume of oil are you collecting per miles traveled ?

Crazy8svt · **Posted:** Tue May 07, 2013 8:25 pm

so i have it installed but when i accelerate i hear a whistle does yours whistle under acceleration

CATCRD · **Posted:** Tue May 07, 2013 8:53 pm

No there should be no whistle. I would make sure the hoses are on the correct inlet/outlet positions before something gets damaged. The drain hose is installed and sealed, right?

Crazy8svt · **Posted:** Tue May 07, 2013 9:13 pm

CATCRD wrote:

No there should be no whistle. I would make sure the hoses are on the correct inlet/outlet positions before something gets damaged. The drain hose is installed and sealed, right?

i think so i also have strange fog like vapor around the provent and oil breather on top of the intake does this pic look right i followed the arrows (i thought) on the provent

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Tue May 07, 2013 9:53 pm

whistle is an air leak

fog/mist - would also be a leak

check to see if you're pinching a hose causing it to leak somewhere else

provent where did you mount yours !update!

Who is online