jaymanaa
RIP 1961-2018
I say hobbyist because I don't think you can just buy one and drive it like a normal pick up. Seems like I've either been re-searching or wrenching on mine since I got it, but I sure wouldn't want to trade it, man what a truck. I had a funny thing happen the other day when a buddy and I were going way out in western KS to fish this supposedly incredible farmpond (we did catch a couple 4 pounders, and came home with plenty of crappie for a good meal). Back to the truck, we got about half way out there and noticed a burning oil kinda smell,so we pulled over to check it out. Turned out to be a crankcase ventilation pipe that hooks up right in front of the turbo (cold side of course). We got back on our way, but since then I've been thinking, there has to be a better place to get rid of those crankcase gasses. The way it is now is that old oily stuff goes over your clean impeller, through your flex hoses while degrading them, then onto, or into your intercooler. I know from working on air conditioning all my life, that a thin film of oil on the inside of a tube, has a very detrimental effect on heat transfer. Some folks with higher mileage vehicles have even reported getting gummy shit out of the bottom of their intercoolers. I'm getting ready to pull the catalytic converter (or particulate filter, whatever you want to call it) out of my exhaust system as well as the big stock Ford muffler. I have a big ols Stainless glass pack that's 4" diameter that will just fit in there with those other components gone. It has a 1/2 NPT fitting on each end for draining, and I'm thinking about hooking the crankcase ventilation right there via an inverted trap and spring check. Then it could only work like a jet pump, or sand blaster. I'm not planning any trips to Calli anytime soon.