Cummins crank case vent

[DavidC]

Anyboby seen this



FLEETGUARD RELEASES ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ENVIROGUARD CRANKCASE VENTILATION SYSTEM



For Immediate Release



Nashville, TN - 26 Jun 2003





NASHVILLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2003--Fleetguard Inc. is introducing a new line of products designed to address diesel crankcase emissions.



The new line, called Enviroguard(TM), uses patented technologies to control oil drip and filter crankcase aerosols in diesel engine applications. The new Enviroguard(TM) system engine performance requires no service, and is designed to last the life of the engine.



The patented technology in all Enviroguard(TM) systems provides superior aerosol filtering of crankcase emissions, commonly known as blowby. Blowby is the result of high pressure gases and oils escaping around piston rings and venting to the atmosphere.



The oily mist attracts dust and airborne particles, resulting in an accumulation of contaminants, both on the engine and on the surface beneath it. This condition increases the clean-up required in the engine compartment and results in unsightly oil drips on highways, parking lots, garage floors and driveways.



The Enviroguard(TM) system is six times more efficient than conventional wire mesh breather systems in filtering aerosol emissions. The system captures, separates and coalesces air particulates in the blowby emissions and returns the oil to the crankcase with filtered gases vented to the atmosphere.



During 500,000 miles of operation, oil drip from a wire mesh breather system can result in as much as two quarts of oil being lost. The Enviroguard(TM) system reduces oil drip to less than six tablespoons.



The initial Enviroguard(TM) system is designed for all Cummins ISB, ISC and ISL series engine applications. Primary applications are recreational vehicles, fire trucks and buses. Future systems will be introduced to cover most diesel engine applications.



Fleetguard Inc. , headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. , is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CUM - News) and the global manufacturer and specialist of filtration, exhaust and chemical and cooling products and systems for diesel engines (9-7000 horsepower). Fleetguard's home page on the Internet can be found at www.fleetguard.com.



http://www.cummins.com/na/pages/en/....cfm?uuid=000E7A79-1AA3-1EFB-91BA80C4A8F00000



Dave













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[dsather]

TTT

Does this mean that no one is interested or that no one cares???







Dennis

 

[illflem]

More than likely no one wants to pay the price, I'll bet it isn't cheap.

 

[A Johnson]

Looked for it on Genos' webpage couldn't find it.



Fleetguard P/N for Dodge is CV50115, price is @ $160 at Cummins Northwest, aw shucks now I can't remember if it was $160 or $260. What goes after your memory? I forgot...



A JOhnson

 

[Phil Stuart]

new breather from mother Cummins

Originally posted by A Johnson

Looked for it on Genos' webpage couldn't find it.



Fleetguard P/N for Dodge is CV50115, price is @ $160 at Cummins Northwest, aw shucks now I can't remember if it was $160 or $260. What goes after your memory? I forgot...



A JOhnson

I saw it in a newsletter I got last week from Cummins Power Systems. I Had to satisfy my curiosity so I called to inquire as to the price of said item. They want $265. 00 for it:--)

Well I think I'll keep my plain 'ol 3/4" hose extension hooked up for a while



I asked the parts guy how it plumbed into the engine for the oil return to the crankcase. He really didn't know but it probably comes with instructions that shows how it hooks up.



Phil

 

[canblue]

Very interesting. Does anyone have the cost and part number for the standard venting plastic thing? Wonder if we could simply drill

a hole in the bottom and route a hose back to the engine? I guess we would need something like a PVC valve in the valve cover to draw the oil back in? Any thoughts on this? Is it workable? Any one have the installation instructions for the Cummins/Fleetguard item?

 

[mhenon]

Crankcase vent

I just bought a 10' piece of hose from the local NAPA store. Took the breather hose and bottle off the truck and installed the new hose. It goes up and under the intake ram, down the oil stick tube to the underside of the rig. I then threaded it around the fuel lines and ended up putting the loose end in a hole in the frame. "Done"!!!!! Total time: 5 minutes. Cost: $10. 50.

Worked for me any.

 

[nickleinonen]

putting the loose end in a hole in the frame. "Done"!!!!!

and as a plus, no charge rust proofing for that frame rail :-laf

Looking for some Canadian Members in my area

almost in your area, i am about 30-45 min west of your area. off of McCowan road just north of the 407 rip off toll hwy...

 

[John]

Re: Crankcase vent

Originally posted by mhenon

I just bought a 10' piece of hose from the local NAPA store. Took the breather hose and bottle off the truck and installed the new hose. It goes up and under the intake ram, down the oil stick tube to the underside of the rig. I then threaded it around the fuel lines and ended up putting the loose end in a hole in the frame. "Done"!!!!! Total time: 5 minutes. Cost: $10. 50.

I tried pretty much the same thing but...



I attached a new pre-bent hose to the bottom of the OE pre-bent rubber blow-by hose, adding a long extension piece to the end of said added-on pre-bent hose, routing evertything so there was a continual downward slope to the termination point. It worked pretty good in the warmer summer months however, once it cooled off in the Fall there was evidence of oil and oil mist coagulating in the hose... it looked like some sort of medium gray colored grease. Well, enough of that BS! For lack of any masterpiece engineering idea at the time, I greatly shortened the breather hose, terminating it adjacent to the track bar with a large nylon "wire tie. "



Since then, I came up with a much better idea...



it involves a variety of pre-bent hoses I purchased from my local NAPA store as well as a few brass push-on hose connectors. From the bottom of my (new) OE crancase breather hose, I configured the hose in the path I wanted using the pre-bent hoses and connectors, again, using a perpetual downward path with the breather hose. I terminated the hose inside my DSS. [BTW, I have one of Darin's early designs... i. e. , open ends on the square tube cross bar. ] Anyway, at the breather hose termination point (inside the DSS square cross tube), I have some oil absorbant material wrapped around and extending "forward" of the hose end. As this absorbant material is white, once I observe that it has sufficiently changed color due to oil mist saturation, I will R&R the absorbant material. So far this has worked very well for me, it looks really trick, is very functional, allows no oil to contaminate my pristine engine compartment, and is very easy on maintenance. Also, the hose length is short enough that oil condensation will not be a problem.



mhenon, I would be worried about routing the breather hose with any upward hose routing. The low point(s) will collect and hold oil creating problems at a later date.

 

[gtobey]

Fleetguard CV50115

Just got the Fleetguard CV50115 unit from Cummins Mid-Atlantic. It was a bit pricey, just under $220. Here is a link to the instructions:Fleetguard CV50115 Instructions



It goes on pretty slick, however, what their instructions fail to tell you is how to remove the plug from the dipstick port in the side of the block. They apparently install it with Loctite 271 (red). What a dickens (pita) to get out without letting stuff get down into the oil pan! My arms are sore and chafed from reaching up into there above the steering linkage and behind the steering box to get to the block.



When you get that plug out, (looks like an inverted "ten-gallon" hat pressed into the port) be careful when trying to remove the loc-tite from the hole so it doesn't go down into the oil pan. I found that the easiest way was to take a 3/8" coarse bolt and thread it into the ring of loc-tite then pull it up out of the hole. Then the tube supplied in the kit will fit into the hole in the block as they show in the instructions.



Hope all this will be worth it. But I guess it really will if I don't have to fool with that stupid bottle again, and all the gunk on the front of the engine and fan from oil vapor.



Anyone else have one of these, and what was your experience?