Oil in PCV make up air tube

[Rob_R]

Sometimes your brilliance and life time awards and achievements and medals and certificates in all things auto mechanics/mechanical etc doesn’t allow you to try and understand some of us who are “not wrong” but simple in explaining as best as we do. Your intelligence, though far above most is also, not wrong but so advanced that us simple minded folk can’t say anything right or our words are too simple, you can’t figure out what’s being said.

You need to try very hard to stop stepping on “simple” explanations that aren’t wrong. Most of us, me included are not text book, class room advanced in all things mechanical, like you however, you still have a very important place in our world, just not always so far up in the clouds that you have to appear intimidating, brilliant and advanced at the expense of making others feel stupid.

I am not in agreement with your post here. Why would you berate the poster when he is describing the detailed operation of the PCV system?

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[Maximus Gladius]

I am not in agreement with your post here. Why would you berate the poster when he is describing the detailed operation of the PCV system?

If the poster is needing clarity or feels he needs an explanation, he can PM me or ask here. What I said is clear. I wouldn’t change much.

 

[Rob_R]

If the poster is needing clarity or feels he needs an explanation, he can PM me or ask here. What I said is clear. I wouldn’t change much.

You didn't answer my question. Please advise when it suits you. In the meantime, I can only assume why you chose to post what you did.

 

[Maximus Gladius]

You didn't answer my question. Please advise when it suits you. In the meantime, I can only assume why you chose to post what you did.

There’s no need to advise. If @ShadowsPapa feels I berated him and did so unfairly or was wrong in my post and feels he needs corrections made by me, he can speak for himself. With over 30,500 posts to his name, he knows how to speak his mind. To continue it further would be gossip, inappropriate and doesn’t need explaining to others. There’s nothing to assume here as my post was clear and I will not speak further than what I already said.

 

[Lunentucker]

No one was berated.
Both are great contributors to the forums, but with different styles.
Bill is a lot like me in many ways, and tends to be "over-focused" at times, and a touch oblivious to people who are trying to say the same things as he is, but with different, and often fewer words.

 

[evoarie]

Shadowspapa is well respected around here for his knowledge and time he is willing to contribute.
I haven’t been here long but already can read this much.

Thanks again all. Everyone try and have great day, and if you are, help your brother beside you.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

There’s no need to advise. If @ShadowsPapa feels I berated him and did so unfairly or was wrong in my post and feels he needs corrections made by me, he can speak for himself. With over 30,500 posts to his name, he knows how to speak his mind. To continue it further would be gossip, inappropriate and doesn’t need explaining to others. There’s nothing to assume here as my post was clear and I will not speak further than what I already said.

No problem - you had a point. I was too into the detail.
It is correct to say that if things are operating normally, you may, or even likely, will, see some oil there.
The problem is when it's excessive.
Semantics, I guess.



Watch oil level and oil consumption. If the PCV system is operating to the best of it's design ability, and all else is normal, you won't need to add oil between changes.
Some oil in that tube will be normal.

Watch multiple things, not just the one, for signs of trouble.

Mine has a touch of oil there, and yet, 7,1000 miles the oil level wasn't much below the full mark, never made it to the add mark. So I ignored that bit of oil.

 

[Rob_R]

Quite frankly this is the most stress-free automotive forum I have had the pleasure of participating in. To see a valued contributor like Kevin respond to another valued contributor (Bill) in this fashion did not sit right with me. I am not a keyboard tough guy. However, I felt that I needed to point out the tone and content of Kevin's response to Bill was unwarranted. A private message from Kevin to Bill would have sufficed to express his displeasure.

Personally, I prefer the detailed explanation approach - but hey, that is just me.

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Quite frankly this is the most stress-free automotive forum I have had the pleasure of participating in. To see a valued contributor like Kevin respond to another valued contributor (Bill) in this fashion did not sit right with me. I am not a keyboard tough guy. However, I felt that I needed to point out the tone and content of Kevin's response to Bill was unwarranted. A private message from Kevin to Bill would have sufficed to express his displeasure.

Personally, I prefer the detailed explanation approach - but hey, that is just me.

And that is a mistake I take responsibility for and to that I openly apologize.

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