Technical Oil catch tank.

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Technical Oil catch tank.

I fitted a catch can bought on line for £12 ish. To be honest I didn't know what to expect to see in the viewing tube up the side of the can, After a couple of hundred miles though there now is what looks like water with a film of oil floating on top. The can as to be manually drained, 1.2ltr with 26k miles
 
I fitted a catch can bought on line for £12 ish. To be honest I didn't know what to expect to see in the viewing tube up the side of the can, After a couple of hundred miles though there now is what looks like water with a film of oil floating on top. The can as to be manually drained, 1.2ltr with 26k miles

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Just exactly the same as mine with 26k on the clock. On mine I'd say 80% is water and the rest oil, it takes a few months to get to the level tube and mine is a simple drain bolt at the bottom. I'm think I got mine off eBay, sorry not in my history, so cant be 100% sure.
 
I fitted a catch can bought on line for £12 ish. To be honest I didn't know what to expect to see in the viewing tube up the side of the can, After a couple of hundred miles though there now is what looks like water with a film of oil floating on top. The can as to be manually drained, 1.2ltr with 26k miles


Hi everyone.

we have 2005 1.2 dynamic 86k and 2014 1.2 easy 46k, neither seems to have any oil residue around the throttle body area, just a little darkening from the smallest of vapours.
As a matter of interest none of our pairing are borderline on the HC part of the MOT but if a catch tank is used would this reduce the HC emissions at MOT time as only petrol is going in.

generally we do about 5k to 7k per year on each car and use semi synthetic oil every time changed yearly.

Ive got into the habit of changing the oil prior to The MOT so the emissions are lower on the dvla MOT check records for the cars.

Tim
 
Just ordered Lanyifang ! Oil catch tank from Amazon which gives the option of sealed or vented, system. Have worked on PCV systems on many Volvos over the past 30 years and they can be a bit of an Achilles heel on many cars. Will fit and report back. Thanks for the replies. Bought the Panda 2 years ago after many years of Volvos and restoring cars for 30 plus years, love the Fiat Panda . It’s the first blip in 2 years manifesting in a drop in performance , flats spots etc which I initially thought might be coil pack or the Bosch plugs I fitted rather than the genuine Fiat ones. Many thanks for the replies. Cheers.
 
When I bought mine in January of 2017 it was nearly three years old with 19k on the clock. it was decidedly sluggish, I did the usual thing with an Italian engine....... drive it hard, it certainly improved but the addition of the catch tank, platinum plugs, oil changes every 6 months and the use of a product to clean carbon off valves the performance has drastically improved. It now sounds as if its working when you put the foot down and climbs hills far better now than it did, I did consider a remap at one time but I have now shelved the idea.
 
Thanks for that , sounds similar to mine which is a 2013 bought in 2017 with about 13,000 on the clock. Can I ask which Spark plugs you have used and where you bought them. Many thanks again .
 
New catch tank trial fitted today on a fabricated bracket to attach to 2 upper engine mount studs. Waiting for another length of breather hose to finish off and also struggling with the correct nut size to secure the bracket to the studs, bought some M10 nyloc today but they are not right, maybe M12 ! A couple of pics.
 

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I'm not so sure about it being toxic. For many years crankcases were vented to the air, the amount of fumes is very small in comparison to what comes out of the tailpipe, and if the fumes pass through combustion who actually knows if they are still there or not. I'll be leaving the filter on my catch tank I don't have an issue at all. It will be interesting to see how the cross performs once it's been in for a month or two.
 
This model of catch tank has the option of with filter or without, a neat aluminium sealing cap is supplied. In terms of fitting I needed to fit with the filter on top, however I may replace this with the closed sealing ring in place eventually it depends which performs best. I expected to run the car without the filter but will see how it goes, there is a pretty neat filter baffle in the tank itself and a mini dipstick although I would expect it would take forever to fill even part way.
 
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I'm not so sure about it being toxic. For many years crankcases were vented to the air, the amount of fumes is very small in comparison to what comes out of the tailpipe, and if the fumes pass through combustion who actually knows if they are still there or not. I'll be leaving the filter on my catch tank I don't have an issue at all. It will be interesting to see how the cross performs once it's been in for a month or two.
As you say crankcase ventilation on the old cars was simply a pipe poking out the bottom of the engine. I did this with my old 1.9 tdi to try to slow down carbon fouling of the inlet manifold and it was never mentioned by the MOT tester. However now a days everything is balanced on such a knife edge I wouldn't be surprised if venting it to atmosphere would affect the running of the engine.

I'm hoping that, especially with the direct injected engine on the Ibiza, fitting a catch can will reduce and slow down the inlet carbon fouling. I fear though that it is inevitable.
 
The M10 fine thread 1.25 nuts finally arrived from China via Amazon ! so finally fitted the bracket and oil catch tank system. Quick run out and it feels like the handbrake has been released ! much improved throttle response and pull. It’s fitted with the vented tank at present so will give it a while then remove the open filter and fit the aluminium sealing cap and see how it goes then. Pleased with the fit and many thanks to those on this thread and others who have helped.
 

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Brilliant result and a really neat job.

The City Cross is flying second and third have a very good lift. I've also fitted Denso VXU22's platinum tough plugs again a noticeable improvement. Will see how the MPG goes but I'm using the "loud" pedal right now.
 
A brief update on the fitting of the oil catch tank to my Panda 1.2 easy back in May. For the first month I ran the car with the vented system and the cars performance was greatly improved, on the mpg side but just going of the cars average mpg calculation this rose from 51mpg to 55mpg. The only down side was a slight aroma of fumes at idle sometimes. I have since removed the filter type top and fitted the sealed aluminium plug. I have been running with this for a month and this is the option I will stay with, all the benefits of the open system but without the occasional whiff of fumes. MPG remains the same and performance still excellent , judging by the oil , mayonnaise and water vapour the catch tank collects im not surprised. A very worthwhile modification in my opinion, iridium plugs next.
 
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