Time To Change Oil Hoses?

[madmoomoo]

Hey skyliners,

I have a small amount of oil that has come out of the top of the engine where the kinda square U-shaped hose goes from one side of engine to the other. Is this really bad? When looking at engine from front, the right side is a bit dirty, and I remember trying to clean it before, so it's coming out still...

Is this a part that should be changed? I guess being a rubber part on an old girl ( '93 R33 @200k) it might be time for a change soon..?!

Should I go down to autobarn and get a new one? and are there other ones I should change?

thanks..

[someonestolecc]

If it's the one that goes out the top of the RB I *think* that's the oil blow by - in which case if you have a healthy engine you shouldn't have any coming through.

It is there to catch any that does though so it might not be bad. I'd just clean it up, replace it and get a catch can - after a while see if you have lots of gunk going into the catch can. If you do then you can decide if you'd like to find the problem or drive your car till it dies.

Ignore my post if the oil blow by pipe isn't what it is.

[madmoomoo]

Thanks for that. when i changed my spark plugs today I found that bth sides of the hose had split! There was a bit of oil to clean up, so off to autobarn to get new hoses tomorrow. I'm going to replace everything I can. Once I have a bit of spare cash I might look at a catch can.

cheers