Removed solenoid on STS kit, now blowing oil all over!
04-24-2006 | 04:20 PM
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When i first installed my STS kit I didn't ground the solenoid housing, because i didn't have the instuctions. I had the same thing happen of blowing oil out on the passenger side. I then asked allen nelson and he said i had to run a wire from the solenoid case to ground. I did this and the problem was solved!
04-24-2006 | 05:10 PM
#12
Originally Posted by Turborado
When i first installed my STS kit I didn't ground the solenoid housing, because i didn't have the instuctions. I had the same thing happen of blowing oil out on the passenger side. I then asked allen nelson and he said i had to run a wire from the solenoid case to ground. I did this and the problem was solved!
Remember this, I have had the kit installed for about a year and four months and never had these isssues until I went over 5psi on a regular basis.
Maybe the solenoid failed somewhere along the line but I cannot verify that.
I will try hooking the solenoid back up and see if it actuates when making the electrical conection complete.
Vanilla, I will post up what I have hooked up currently and post up before I leave work tonite.
Thanks all!!
04-24-2006 | 05:55 PM
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Some pics for all to see.
My inner fender well is off on the passenger side because of the
Exxon Valdese accident yesterday.
Last is the old set-up!!
My inner fender well is off on the passenger side because of the
Exxon Valdese accident yesterday.
Last is the old set-up!!
Last edited by TG02Z71; 04-25-2006 at 12:05 AM.
04-24-2006 | 05:57 PM
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EDIT: The Hoobs switch you have running into the catch bottle needs to be blocked off after the Hoobs switch and before the catch bottle. You are pressurizing that catch bottle with full boost pressure and that may be where all your oil is coming from. Block the line coming out from the Hoobs switch off!!!!
OK I am confused I admit it. LOL Do you have the Hoobs switch connected inline with the vent from the valve cover to the catch bottle? If you do hook it back up to the nipple on the intake manifold and block off the line that exits from the hoobs switch.
Hook up the line from the valve cover vent directly to the catch bottle and make sure the catch bottle is vented to the atmosphere.
The Hoobs switch by the intake manifold gets its pressure reference from the intake manifold nipple by the TB. This nipple leads to a vent on the front of the TB before the throttle blade and never sees any vacuum just the pressure in the intake tube. When the intake is under boost that line references it as well and when the Hoobs switch sees 1 psi it switches the solenoid to vent the pcv line on the passenger side valve cover to the atmosphere and puts the return oil pump onto high speed. If you have removed the solenoid and you are getting oil blown back through it then boost is going by your PCV valve on the driver's side into the crankcase or it is going by the pistons into the crankcase. Let us hope it is going by the PCV valve.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
OK I am confused I admit it. LOL Do you have the Hoobs switch connected inline with the vent from the valve cover to the catch bottle? If you do hook it back up to the nipple on the intake manifold and block off the line that exits from the hoobs switch.
Hook up the line from the valve cover vent directly to the catch bottle and make sure the catch bottle is vented to the atmosphere.
The Hoobs switch by the intake manifold gets its pressure reference from the intake manifold nipple by the TB. This nipple leads to a vent on the front of the TB before the throttle blade and never sees any vacuum just the pressure in the intake tube. When the intake is under boost that line references it as well and when the Hoobs switch sees 1 psi it switches the solenoid to vent the pcv line on the passenger side valve cover to the atmosphere and puts the return oil pump onto high speed. If you have removed the solenoid and you are getting oil blown back through it then boost is going by your PCV valve on the driver's side into the crankcase or it is going by the pistons into the crankcase. Let us hope it is going by the PCV valve.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
Last edited by Mort; 04-24-2006 at 06:18 PM.
04-24-2006 | 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Mort
The Hoobs switch by the intake manifold gets its pressure reference from the intake manifold nipple by the TB. This nipple leads to a vent on the front of the TB before the throttle blade and never sees any vacuum just the pressure in the intake tube. When the intake is under boost that line references it as well and when the Hoobs switch sees 1 psi it switches the solenoid to vent the pcv line on the passenger side valve cover to the atmosphere and puts the return oil pump onto high speed. If you have removed the solenoid and you are getting oil blown back through it then boost is going by your PCV valve on the driver's side into the crankcase or it is going by the pistons into the crankcase. Let us hope it is going by the PCV valve.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
I will go home a hook all this stuff up the correct way and give her another test run,,,close to home that is!!
Thanks Mort, you have made me feel much better about my issues here.
yet another example of how this site is the place to be !!!!!!
04-24-2006 | 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Mort
EDIT: The Hoobs switch you have running into the catch bottle needs to be blocked off after the Hoobs switch and before the catch bottle. You are pressurizing that catch bottle with full boost pressure and that may be where all your oil is coming from. Block the line coming out from the Hoobs switch off!!!!
The Hoobs switch by the intake manifold gets its pressure reference from the intake manifold nipple by the TB. This nipple leads to a vent on the front of the TB before the throttle blade and never sees any vacuum just the pressure in the intake tube. When the intake is under boost that line references it as well and when the Hoobs switch sees 1 psi it switches the solenoid to vent the pcv line on the passenger side valve cover to the atmosphere and puts the return oil pump onto high speed. If you have removed the solenoid and you are getting oil blown back through it then boost is going by your PCV valve on the driver's side into the crankcase or it is going by the pistons into the crankcase. Let us hope it is going by the PCV valve.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
The Hoobs switch by the intake manifold gets its pressure reference from the intake manifold nipple by the TB. This nipple leads to a vent on the front of the TB before the throttle blade and never sees any vacuum just the pressure in the intake tube. When the intake is under boost that line references it as well and when the Hoobs switch sees 1 psi it switches the solenoid to vent the pcv line on the passenger side valve cover to the atmosphere and puts the return oil pump onto high speed. If you have removed the solenoid and you are getting oil blown back through it then boost is going by your PCV valve on the driver's side into the crankcase or it is going by the pistons into the crankcase. Let us hope it is going by the PCV valve.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
04-24-2006 | 06:15 PM
#17
Originally Posted by Mort
EDIT: The Hoobs switch you have running into the catch bottle needs to be blocked off after the Hoobs switch and before the catch bottle. You are pressurizing that catch bottle with full boost pressure and that may be where all your oil is coming from. Block the line coming out from the Hoobs switch off!!!!
The Hoobs switch by the intake manifold gets its pressure reference from the intake manifold nipple by the TB. This nipple leads to a vent on the front of the TB before the throttle blade and never sees any vacuum just the pressure in the intake tube. When the intake is under boost that line references it as well and when the Hoobs switch sees 1 psi it switches the solenoid to vent the pcv line on the passenger side valve cover to the atmosphere and puts the return oil pump onto high speed. If you have removed the solenoid and you are getting oil blown back through it then boost is going by your PCV valve on the driver's side into the crankcase or it is going by the pistons into the crankcase. Let us hope it is going by the PCV valve.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
The Hoobs switch by the intake manifold gets its pressure reference from the intake manifold nipple by the TB. This nipple leads to a vent on the front of the TB before the throttle blade and never sees any vacuum just the pressure in the intake tube. When the intake is under boost that line references it as well and when the Hoobs switch sees 1 psi it switches the solenoid to vent the pcv line on the passenger side valve cover to the atmosphere and puts the return oil pump onto high speed. If you have removed the solenoid and you are getting oil blown back through it then boost is going by your PCV valve on the driver's side into the crankcase or it is going by the pistons into the crankcase. Let us hope it is going by the PCV valve.
Try removing the line to the PCV valve on the driver's side and then plugging the nipple on the intake manifold. Leave the STS solenoid disconnected and the valve cover vented to the atmosphere. If you are still getting crankcase pressure and blowing oil then I think you have damaged a piston and you are getting blowby past the pistons. If you are than a compression test or a cylinder leakdown test is in order.
04-24-2006 | 11:56 PM
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More pics after fixing all the probelems....hopefully.
I safety tied the damm fill tube down good. Looks like hell but I don't need a fire on top of a mess!
The hobbs switch is now getting its reference from the TB like it should, and the other end is capped, but I can still take off a plug if I need to tap into it for anything else.
The valve cover breather hose goes right to the "RONCO" catch can I have rigged up.
KB, yours looks just like mine before all the bullshit started, just a little oil weeping around all the switches, solenoids and such.
I safety tied the damm fill tube down good. Looks like hell but I don't need a fire on top of a mess!
The hobbs switch is now getting its reference from the TB like it should, and the other end is capped, but I can still take off a plug if I need to tap into it for anything else.
The valve cover breather hose goes right to the "RONCO" catch can I have rigged up.
KB, yours looks just like mine before all the bullshit started, just a little oil weeping around all the switches, solenoids and such.