Hi, just a little story really. When I changed my rocker covers, I removed the blank and installed a breather on the left cover, and swapped the pcv valve on the right cover for a fancy looking one. Hadn’t really driven the car since, and with the weather like it’s been have put a few miles on the 74. All this was based on online opinion that a breather, not a blank should be fitted.
On initial start up Saturday morning, it was massively over fueling, I put this down to being sat for a while, and it cleared after warming up. But, the idle wasn’t right, but drove ok.
Sunday morning, same thing, so I figured something was up. After a bit of research, I found conflicting opinions on breathers and blanks. I pulled the pcv valve off, tested it, and it was open all the time. So i refitted the old pcv and blank, and hey presto, cars running perfect again.
For aesthetics I’ve blanked the breather I bought, and put a new pcv in the other fancy case.
Moral of the story, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should!
Tim.
On initial start up Saturday morning, it was massively over fueling, I put this down to being sat for a while, and it cleared after warming up. But, the idle wasn’t right, but drove ok.
Sunday morning, same thing, so I figured something was up. After a bit of research, I found conflicting opinions on breathers and blanks. I pulled the pcv valve off, tested it, and it was open all the time. So i refitted the old pcv and blank, and hey presto, cars running perfect again.
For aesthetics I’ve blanked the breather I bought, and put a new pcv in the other fancy case.
Moral of the story, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should!
Tim.
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