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PCV HELP!!! 850

posted by  someone claiming to be LarryU on  Tue Sep 11 18:21 CST 2007 [RELATED]

TO ALL THAT RESPONDED...

First I wanted to thank you guys for your helpful tips!!! I sincerely appreciated each one of them.

Well, I ended up taking each vaccum line and blowing each one that I didn't attend to when I replaced the oil separator and they all seemed OK. I then tried the SeaFoam Treatment via a vaccum line (1/3 of 1 Pint can). That seemed to help somewhat as I am not seeing as much oil coming out of the oil cap and dipstick. I still have some whooshing coming out of the cap. I did have to reset the ECU do to multiple errors though. No errors now.

I did remeasure the compression following the treatment and all cylinders increased by about 10-15 PSI. I then added 1 tsp of clean oil into each cylinder and remeasured and the compression went up by about 20 PSI in each cylinder (I had 185-205PSI), which tells me I do have some blow-by going on. This I would expect with 189,000 miles I guess. I may have to resort to a couple of options. The first is to try the Auto-RX treatment to see if compression blow-by would improve. The second would be to take the car to a local Volvo Indy repair shop for a smoke test evaluation and/or leakdown test. The third is to maybe let the crankcase pressure "breath" into a drainable canister instead of the intake manifold to see if that would relieve the crankcase pressure. It would no longer be a sealed system, but it's better than the alternative.

What do you think guys??? Let me know...

Thanks Again,
LarryU






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