Thread: PCV valves

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See my problem is I have no place on my intake to run a line to. The only vacuum I have is the large port on the back of the carb base plate. And that is running my power brakes. I dont want to yank the intake to drill and tap it to have a new port. Its funny you say that thesals, my motor has never ran very well, and i KNOW i have some serious crankcase pressure because it is launched out of the breathers at high revs.
So what are some ways I can get a PCV system up and running? Am I going to be drilling that intake for a new vacuum port?
And i cant afford an actual pump to pull that pressure out.

This is my first "real" motor compared to my other toys in the past, so exsuse the ignorance. But even with a PCV valve, will the motor smoke a little bit from small traces of oil getting in the intake? Or does the check ball in the PCV valve actually block liquids?

very very minimal oil will get through and it wont be enough to make your motor smoke..... you could T off on the carb base for running a pcv and power brakes.... vacuum wont drop by splitting a line, its just like electricity... you'll just be pulling more current, the pcv and power booster operate in reverse of each other though, on decel theres not as much demand on the pcv so it wont cause any problems

So do you think if I hook the hoses from my pcv valves to the headers it will be equivalent to hooking it to the intake ports.