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For anyone who is not a believer or hesitant to spend the money... I'm a believer in these now. I've only had my Billet Technology from Moe's on less than two weeks and there is already enough oil in it to slosh around...not a lot, but just barely enough. This is after 12 days...
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I'm very surprised at that. It would indicate you loose a lot of oil between oil changes. How often do you check your oil level?
 
yes they indeed work
 
Can you show a picture of how you have yours mounted? Billet looks good under the hood.
 
Tui its a can installed in the PCV line to catch oil and blowby gunk before its dumped into the intake. Supposed to keep the intake cleaner. Looks like that ones working! :thumb:

Can't get one for our old iron :sad:
 
Tui its a can installed in the PCV line to catch oil and blowby gunk before its dumped into the intake. Supposed to keep the intake cleaner. Looks like that ones working! :thumb:

Can't get one for our old iron :sad:
Thought there were installed on the crankcase vent line going to the TB, my PCV is installed at the back of the intake
 
I don't have blow-by on my 03 so don't really need a catch can, but the way I have done them in the past was to install them inline with whatever line that was the crank case vent. On the 03 there is a hose from the oil fill Tube to the air inlet pipe (CAI) feeding the TB. If I was to install a catch can on the old girl that is where I would put it. Often you see this vent hose simply vented to atmosphere with a small filter on the end of the hose, with the Air tube side plugged. This would keep the TB from sucking hot gases from the engine into the air inlet tube. The COPO thread has some excellent pictures of a racing vent setup. With vent hoses coming from the valve covers to a catch can with a atmospheric vent (small filter). Venting the crank case reduces pumping pressures, how you do it may or may not need a oil control strategy. I don't know about the 03 if it would benefit from additional venting. A lot of the old racers also used header scavenger setups to pull a vacuum on the crank case to reduce pressures and help seal rings. However changing any of this is illegal on a street vehicle for whatever that is worth.
 
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I didn't take one of the whole bay. I've got an ugly air box under there that I haven't gotten all the failed paint off of yet.
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From my experience the catch can should be mounted as high as possible. On the rams I've seen most mounted off the master cylinder. Sorry I'm sounding like a PIA, but I'm trying help, there really shouldn't have been the amount of oil your picture is showing on a new truck. Pls don't be offended as I encourage mod/working on our trucks.

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No offense taken. That's what forums are for. I just followed the directions that came with it. Matt at Moe's says that amount is actually a little below normal for these trucks (4th gen).
 
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I can understand having it up higher, because of gravity and such I guess? I may look into some other places sometime.
 
No offense taken. That's what forums are for. I just followed the directions that came with it. Matt at Moe's says that amount is actually a little below normal for these trucks (4th gen).
I can attest to that. Here is a picture of my throttle body 3 weeks after having it cleaned.

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My 03 didn't look that dirty the first time I cleaned it and it had been running for about three years.
 
I have been hearing it is a 4th gen thing. Is your throttle body vertical or horizontal?
 
Thats the only thing I can think of that would make it such a difference between the 3rd gen and 4th gen. Either way I have just ordered one. Want to keep my new throttle body clean!
 
It would explain after all these years why catch cans have just recently become popular.
 
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