Thread: Anyone fitted a catch-can to a puma?

Jus09 & Goulier, did you clean out your systems at all when you did this? As in your pipe work and cooler.
I was told I could out an airline attachment (tyre valve) into the main inlet hose to the Turbo and then spray a certain fluid (it's name eludes me at present) and with the motor running, basically empty the can into it and watch all the residual oil through the system get burnt and clean out.
Not sure about this, but I've been told by two people to do this, ones a Mech and ones an engineer/racer, so I'm guessing their both right. I doubt my mate would let me do something that would damage the engine.

I cleaned out the intercooler with Shellite, made by DIGGERS which you can get from bunnings. Took the intercooler out and flushed it out about 4 times. First flush was like black sludge, amazing how much oil gets in there. Just gave the hoses a wipe with a rag. Ive never heard of this flushing out through a turbo.

Out of curiosity, what size ID is the standard crank case ventilation to turbo intake hose? (ie where you'd install the Provent)
Does anyone have a photo of it stock? Or a tech drawing from a manual or something?

The oem hose is 19mm or 3/4 " it is a pre molded hose and the pro vent is 25mm or 1 " . If you take the whole hose and fitting off the engine cover, the 25 mm hose fits straight onto the plastic barb on the the engine side ( hose clamps of coarse ) At the air intake end, I removed the original in line 19mm to 19mm barb to barb and replaced it with a 19mm to 25mm reducing barb . Brought it from a irrigation supplier. It took me a few try's to get the correct fuel/ oil hose. To get it to bend to 90 deg.

Marcus that was so close to a runaway or a bent rod mate!!

Jc

Asgard engineering had a stand at the 4x4 show last month.They're waiting on the laser cutter for the brackets.They supply Provent in a kit form.

I was reading about the provent in the disco sub forum here. Then did some searching regarding the puma. Looks liek I've found the right spot to re-open this discussion.

I looked up the Asgard Engineering site and could not seem to find any defender puma specific Provent mounting kits. Wondering if there is anything out there since the radio silence in NOV '15?

The 2.2Tdci ranger has provent kits available... same with the 3.2 tdci ranger and BT50. Doesn't help us landy drivers though.

Also wondering why people choose the Provent 200... seems overkill? Surely there's be bigger issues if you were making the amount of blow-by that the 200 series filter is capable of handling!?

The provent 100 is good for engines up to 100kW with 100lpm blow by (puma is 99kW, so borderline). Hose sizing seems to be OK as per Gouldier's post above (19mm stock hose I.D.)
Provent 150 is 150kW and 150lpm, Provent 200 is 200kW/200lpm respectively...
Mann+Hummel have a spec sheet [ame="https://www.mann-hummel.com/fileadmin/user_upload/service/catalogues/pdf/ProVent_en_2013.pdf"]>>here<<[/ame] if anyone is interested.

For science...
'Excessive blow-by' on a 5.9litre Cummins 6BT (@100% load, and 2800RPM) is 170LPM
Wouldn't want to have a puma with that much blow by, considering it's only ~40% of what the cummins is (by volume)