318 crankcase breather question

Just got the Dart I bought all dialed in with timing dwell and stuff but now need to figure out what to do with the crankcase breather.

When I bought the car the passenger side had a normal bretaher on it and it filled up with oil and was leaking on the valve cover.

I went and purchased a new breather with pcv valve on it and replaced it(The Napa guy gave me this set up because at that time i didnt know exactly what it needed. However I did not hook up the vacuum hose to the intake. Why? It does not have the stock air cleaner on it so I can't put it where it was suposed to go.

On the drivers side there is just a regular cap. I was looking through the service manual and noticed the cap is a breather into the air cleaner on the drivers side and on the passenger side there is just a pcv valve to the air cleaner.

Now with the new pcv valve and breather on the pass side it spews oil out the side and on to the exhaust manifold. Now I know I could plug the pcv valve with the a hose and plug but I want to make sure it works correctly.

Does anyone have an idea of what i should do to resolve this issue? I was hoping as I do not have to get the stock air cleaner assembly. Any thoughts you guy have would be great.

Thanks!

Most of the aftermarket carburetor air filters I have seen are packed with a small fitting that goes into the bottom of the filter assembly. This fitting has a hose that goes to a valve cover, providing filtered air for the pcv system. The other end of the pcv system is the pcv valve and a hose to the manifold (or maybe the base of the carb). Manifold vacuum is lower pressure than the filtered air inside the air cleaner, thus the airflow is: filtered air into the crankcase, via the valve cover - then from the other valve cover to the manifold via the pcv valve. 6dart9, you just need a tap into the bottom of the air filter housing and some 3/8" vacuum tubing.

I take it you have a "open element" air-cleaner?

Here is the way to go.
The breather in the pic is available at Mopar Performance.$10.00.

The other side is your PVC valve.Your carb should have a port for the PVC.Connect a hose from the pcv valve to pcv port on carb.

New pvc valves and valve cover grommets are available at your Napa.

On this motor the breather,pcv valve,oil cap,and grommets are all from Mopar Performance.

You could do what both of these gentlemen said, both are exactly correct. But when I finally move to Maryland and have a garage to work in, I plan to run the PCV not to the intake but to the exhaust. Actually eliminating the PCV vavle and just having two breathers, one (possiblie two) odd but fuctional hoses going to the collectors of the headers. Reason for this is the PCV vavle recricutales the hydrocarbons (unburnt fuel) and carbon monoxide ('partially' unburnt fuel) back into the intake, correct? Well wouldnt that mess with the air/fuel ratio? The way I see it, it would but that is just a harder thing to do when you already have your car almost finished and air fuel ratio isnt first thing on your mind in a street driven classic. Just throwing something out of my head, haha!

So I have the Mopar performance covers. I am trying to keep everything as clutter free as possible.
The covers come with oil fill cut outs only.
Can I just put a filtered breather in one of the holes and leave the fill cap on the other side?
Is pcv needed and can the carb connection just be capped off? Is the pcv needed to run right.
Also. I have a Edelbrock performer intake. Okay to just block off egr?
No emissions on my age car.
Thanks

Dodge73Dart said:

So I have the Mopar performance covers. I am trying to keep everything as clutter free as possible.
The covers come with oil fill cut outs only.
Can I just put a filtered breather in one of the holes and leave the fill cap on the other side?
Is pcv needed and can the carb connection just be capped off? Is the pcv needed to run right.
Also. I have a Edelbrock performer intake. Okay to just block off egr?
No emissions on my age car.
Thanks

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