1969 Custom/10 clean up

[Steve-W]

Originally Posted by 68Gold/white

You can block that pipe, but you DO need to have a PCV valve, in some shape or form. THe PCV valve pulls the vapors out of the crank case and burns them in the combustion process. It IS a needed thing. Without a PCv system, oil life is very short, and the oil becomes acrid, attacking bearing metals, ruining engines.
You need one breather and a PCV valve somewhere in the crank case. THe breather allows fresh air into the crankcase, the PCV pulls that air through the crank case along with the crappy vapors produced inside the engine, and burns them in the combustion process...

here's on old picture where you see the 2 breathers on the valve covers.
I do not recirculate any engine fumes


besides..the engine is pretty tired and next year I'll pull it out and rebuild it.
But the road draft tube as I now know it's called is probable the cause of the oil laying on top of the transmission I'll put a tube on it an run it to the side, so I can see how much oil leaks from there