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jdpber

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Just never thought of using an air compressor water/oil separator.
 

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John is all about bling
 

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Just never thought of using an air compressor water/oil separator.

I bought one to do it this way from Sears...... I actually ended up using it as its intended purpose and put it on my compressor

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I bought one to do it this way from Sears...... I actually ended up using it as its intended purpose and put it on my compressor



lol


I have a $300 paint gun specific oil separator and a 2nd stage air dryer. I mean to tell you they are the bomb diggity in the shop when painting. Bypass the dryer for the air tools.

As far as the engine in truck. I probably should add one. I clean the TB and intake once a month. But that shit has gotten old.
 

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Been running the Sears setup for about 8 months. It's been doing its job and catching quite a bit of oil.


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I need to get around to doing this mod.

It looks like oil/water separators are an acceptable low budget replacement (i don't need no blingy billet can), which is good because I may have one laying around...
 
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heads up i changed a guys unit with the catchcans.com one and in 3k miles picked up double the amount. not all catchcans pick up the same amount of fluid just a heads up. This has been the case on also a few trailblazer ss's ive done which got switched to the catchcans.com version

+1 for the catchcan.com
I ordered one for each of my 2 vehicles. Shipped them priority and got them in 2 days. They are of excellent quality and really nice machine work. After inspecting them out of the box they are worth every penny and actually as a former machinist, probably quite a bit more than what they charge for them. I'll be installing next Saturday unless I get off work early one of these days
 

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