I've had a 94 850 non turbo for two years and have been able to replace brakes, struts, calipers, control arms, rotors - simple stuff. I have the primary symptom of a plugged up PCV system: smoke blowing out of the dipstick tube. The Haynes manual has been a great help, but a little light on the details of the PCV system. Question: Is the flame trap and oil separator the two components of the system? I cleaned out the flame trap and all the hoses and found three adjacent vacuum lines broken, but no change in the smoke from the dipstick tube. I am willing to pull the intake manifold and do the oil separator clean/replacement, but with some of the posts I've read and with 240k on the motor, it seems like a lot of work and money to put into a $1200 vehicle with this many miles. Right now, I have a shop rag around the dipstick that is soaking up the oil and the car gets down the road just fine. so....do the work? spend the money? let it ride? What would you guys do with a car this old in this condition? oh...and my kids drive it. It could get sideswiped on the other side any day and lose another 30% of it's value in an eyeblink. BTW this site was a great help on all the other stuff I did on the car. Great site and clearly competent and interested contributors and authors. Thanks.

 

I just did mine a little while ago and it was pretty easy. It can be done in one day if you stick with it. You can get a new Oil Trap for like 30 bucks. I took mine out and all the the hoses related to it and cleaned them and put in the new trap. A new oil trap and a days work is a lot less than a new car.

 

If I were You, I will do it right away before it takes a kill on rear main seal which is a big repair. I have done about 3 of the PCV jobs till today and its actuallt not more then 3-4 hrs job done at regular pace. Check for the threads here and they are very easy to follow and accurate. Only thing I found is that you can skip few things and they save lots of time and hastle. Example is the fuel rail - You dont have to remove it - just disconnect the connections and let it stay bolted to the manifold.
The best you can do is buy the oil trap and the intake manifold gasket (approx$50 total) and you will not regret the job.

Please feel free for any questions.

 

Hey guys, IPD has a sale on the full PCV systems. About $85 which is much cheaper than fcp.

Does anyone have a pcv from ipd installed?

 

I doubt they're any different than an OEM PCV system that you would get from an auto parts store or online from somewhere.

 

i agree with bestharry.if you hold out on this job you can blow the rear main seal and that will probably run around $1k. to fix.if ipd has a sale i dont see why not.and replace the whole system not just oil trap.