Catch Can?

[swathdiver]

Might this work as a catch can? It's and old AC Delco design fuel water separator with a glass bowl.

Perkins 4.99 Sedimenter Kit

A Perkins 4.99 high quality water separator (pre-filter) with re-usable internal gauze strainer and glass bowl

www.parts4engines.com

This one has no mounts:

Might this style be more advantageous?

 

[Joseph Garcia]

Might this work as a catch can? It's and old AC Delco design fuel water separator with a glass bowl.

Perkins 4.99 Sedimenter Kit

A Perkins 4.99 high quality water separator (pre-filter) with re-usable internal gauze strainer and glass bowl

www.parts4engines.com

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This one has no mounts:

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Might this style be more advantageous?

Wow! I had one of those on my '63 Ford Falcon, but it was part of the gas filter!

Caught a rock and busted the glass 100 miles away from home at midnight on the Mass Turnpike. The night shift service station attendant let me sleep in the service station, and when he was off shift in the morning, he drove me into town to get a replacement, and then drove me back to my car to install (I always carried a full set of tools in that car). Some people are really, really helpful!

 

[swathdiver]

Wow! I had one of those on my '63 Ford Falcon, but it was part of the gas filter!

Caught a rock and busted the glass 100 miles away from home at midnight on the Mass Turnpike. The night shift service station attendant let me sleep in the service station, and when he was off shift in the morning, he drove me into town to get a replacement, and then drove me back to my car to install (I always carried a full set of tools in that car). Some people are really, really helpful!

Growing up we had a '63 Ford Falcon too! LOL The wide door sills made it fun to sit on the door with the window open or play on the car, play king of the mountain on it when Dad was asleep! LOL

Yes, that's what they used to use, it's based on an old ACDelco model from the 1950s.

 

[donjetman]

Might this work as a catch can? It's and old AC Delco design fuel water separator with a glass bowl.

Might this style be more advantageous?

My guess is NO.
But give er a try.

 

[89Suburban]

It would be better than nothing.

 

[gooffeyguy]

I've known people to use the small water separators for air compressors from like Campbell Housefield or Husky as an oil seperator/catch can on the pcv line.

 

[Sparksalot]

Modern vehicles can always use retro parts!

 

[swathdiver]

My guess is NO.
But give er a try.

Ok, why not? What makes it inferior to a purpose built one?

 

[tom3]

The PVC circuit is a pretty high velocity flow, the gas flow through the sediment bowl is real slow normally. Really need a better separator for the air flow in the PVC system.

 

[Joseph Garcia]

Growing up we had a '63 Ford Falcon too! LOL The wide door sills made it fun to sit on the door with the window open or play on the car, play king of the mountain on it when Dad was asleep! LOL

Yes, that's what they used to use, it's based on an old ACDelco model from the 1950s.

That was my first car, and I bought it for $200. It was a special Falcon, as it was a convertible, front bucket seats with an opening center console, and had 4 on the floor. It still had the 170 cu in straight six (wish it had the 260 cu in V8).

I learned a lot about cars and mechanical/electrical/pneumatic systems on that car, as I ended up replacing everything on it, except the transmission. I replaced the motor once and rebuilt the replacement motor twice. I moded that car all over it, including a two barrel carburetor and a hood scoop to house it. Oh, if the back seat could talk.........

 

[donjetman]

Ok, why not? What makes it inferior to a purpose built one?

Looks too small.
A catch can has a larger camber/cavity that has a larger effect on the energy of the gases flowing thru it so liquid(s) have a greater opportunity to drop out of the gaseous air.

 

[89Suburban]

Are they 3/8" ports on it diver of the swath? Shit for 5 bucks, just try it as an experiment for the fun of it and our entertainment here.

 

[swathdiver]

Looks too small.
A catch can has a larger camber/cavity that has a larger effect on the energy of the gases flowing thru it so liquid(s) have a greater opportunity to drop out of the gaseous air.

Got it, my brain is already thinking of a work around to that! Thanks!

Are they 3/8" ports on it diver of the swath? Shit for 5 bucks, just try it as an experiment for the fun of it and our entertainment here.

It was $16 plus shipping or something like that. Still cheap and not sure about the ports, have to look again. Well, if I get this other stuff done on my list, I might just do it. But it sure is getting hot outside already! My fat butt doesn't take kindly to Florida's heat anymore.

 

[gooffeyguy]

Just make sure to check it often, it may fill up rather quickly

 

[iamdub]

Might this work as a catch can? It's and old AC Delco design fuel water separator with a glass bowl.

Perkins 4.99 Sedimenter Kit

A Perkins 4.99 high quality water separator (pre-filter) with re-usable internal gauze strainer and glass bowl

www.parts4engines.com

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This one has no mounts:

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Might this style be more advantageous?

Virtually no coalescing media and extremely small capacity. For $20 or less, you can get an actually functional catch can off Amazon.

The only reasonable purpose I could see that would be after a catch can to collect what passes it and be able to see it. But, I'd use one of those water/air separators for a compressor for that before going through the hassle of implementing that small glass one.

 

[swathdiver]

Virtually no coalescing media and extremely small capacity. For $20 or less, you can get an actually functional catch can off Amazon.

The only reasonable purpose I could see that would be after a catch can to collect what passes it and be able to see it. But, I'd use one of those water/air separators for a compressor for that before going through the hassle of implementing that small glass one.

Well, I was thinking of putting in a brass tube inside, bent down towards the bottom of the bowl to direct incoming gases and fluids down there and use some steel wool type material as the coalescing material. Right now it's just something I'm thinking about. I also have some K&N breathers leftover from that conversation we had about this 3 years ago but may forgo this route as it would smell and put droplets of oil on the driveway over time.

Funny the things we care about now compared to when we were young! LOL

 

[donjetman]

Swathdiver, and I thought I was cheap
I have a spare catch can I'll send you for free.
Send me an address

 

[iamdub]

Funny the things we care about now compared to when we were young! LOL

And the things we could get away with. Somewhat along these lines, I remember one of the first mods we did to our Hondas was to remove the hose going from the valve cover to the throttle body. Stick a $3 breather filter in the valve cover and cap off the port on the throttle body. No CELs.

The early 2000s and prior had cable TBs that would get stuck closed overnight from the oily schmoo settling in the bottom of the TB and gluing the blade to it. My girlfriend almost backed into her sister's car one morning when the throttle blade cracked loose and the car unexpectedly shot rearward. I told her to press the pedal one time to crack it free each morning before starting and it'd be fine until I could get over there to clean the TB and delete that circuit. The breathers lasted about a year before they were too soaked to keep.

 

[swathdiver]

Swathdiver, and I thought I was cheap
I have a spare catch can I'll send you for free.
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Thanks Don, it's not too much about the money, I just thought being able to see it would be better for me as I tend to forget things. Might be easier for my wife if I go on to glory sooner than later too. Is that a bottom drain on there? Hmm...

 

[swathdiver]

And the things we could get away with. Somewhat along these lines, I remember one of the first mods we did to our Hondas was to remove the hose going from the valve cover to the throttle body. Stick a $3 breather filter in the valve cover and cap off the port on the throttle body. No CELs.

I did that on most all of our family's 1970s-1990s vintage cars back in the day. Hollowed out the cats, threw away the charcoal canisters and all the spaghetti vacuum lines and they ran better and got better gas mileage. On my '79 the gas filler neck was punched out so we could keep running leaded gas too!