Originally Posted by buoymaker
If you don't want a PVC system then connect the hose from the road draft tube to the valve cover elbow. Use a vented oil fill. You don't need a connection to the air cleaner.

I don’t think your last suggestion will work. The road draft tube creates suction at road speed and draws fresh air into the crankcase via the vented oil fill cap in the valve cover evacuating the fumes. If the OP connects the hose from the road draft tube to the valve cover, there won’t be any suction to evacuate the fumes.

If the OP does not want the PCV system, he must get a road draft tube, keep the vented oil fill cap on the valve cover and plug the hose that goes to the air cleaner.

If it was mine, I would buy the proper brass fittings to reattach the road draft tube to the intake manifold, keep the vented oil fill cap on the valve cover then plug the hose fitting on the valve cover. Just that will get you back on the road again.

I would also look into reconnecting the valve cover to the air cleaner again. Having that extra hose connection from the valve cover to the clean side of the air cleaner is the best way to run a PCV system. It draws filtered air into the valve cover, thru the crankcase, gets evacuated thru the intake manifold and burned up with the gas.


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