3 months.... Catch Can is full?!

Ok... so its been 3 months since my last oil change, and I know Im due for one even though ive only put 1500 miles on it in that 3 months. Anyway, the other day, I was picking up my hoodie from Razor, we started talking Catch Can's. Well, I opened up my catch can to show him the contents, and to my amazment, the damn thing was almost completely full!! So my question, is this large amount of oil normal? Should I be concerned about having that much "blow by"? Now, I almost always use my remote start to bring the car to operatiing or almost operating temp before driving, however I have been pretty heavy footed the last few months. Could my heavy foot be the cause for so much oil? Heres a few pictures too of how much was in the can.....

I have heard of people having that much. Mine is usually about half full every oil change

Shawn1112 wrote:

I have heard of people having that much. Mine is usually about half full every oil change

Yeah mine was about half way too. But I guess it varies. I wouldnt worry about it.

Just Looking at that pic makes me cringe ! thanks god i ordered my Catch can today. Never to late i guess

i don't get much in mine for some reason.

i think people get more in it this time of year due to condensation. i know it makes it look like a milk shake instead of oil when it has condensation in it.

I don't get much either. I think it must depend on how you drive. Honestly I think most of mine just goes down the intake at wot all the time. It's no biggy either way.

well, this was just oil. black, nasty looking oil. I had always seen a little accumulation in it, but I never imagined I would have this much in there after only 3 months.

Hell, I check mine like every three weeks and mine is always a little under half full depending how much I drive it

That is a combo of oil and moisture blow by it will always look nasty and that amount is normal...I empty mine monthly since I only change oil every 15-20 thou

What is a oil catch can for? What is the purpose of this? Is this import to have?

markpleasure wrote:

What is a oil catch can for? What is the purpose of this? Is this import to have?

It's a little can that you plumb from the pcv valve. Dodge routes it to dump into your intake. With a catch can you route it to the can and then into the intake. It catches the oil and junk from your crank case and helps to keep your intake cleaner.

i checked mine and after a few weeks mine was 1/4 full already.....im glad i put on catch can......

Checked mine after about 2 months and I had just a dash (maybe 1/4 of an inch) of liquid nasty in there.

-vagrant

depends on the oil, when I used Pennzoil synthetic it would be about 1/2 full after running 3-4000 miles. I just finished 9500 miles with quantun blue and it was about 1/4 full if that.

crazy933, glad you went with QB's oil! Brian is such a great guy and really knows about this stuff. for anybody looking at oils, QuantumBlue is really good and you can do a google search on it. i would highly recommend his oil and the oil filter from them.

Do you guys change your oil every 3k miles or 5k miles?

i change every 3k or 3 months... fairly religiously

I change mine every 2,500. Might as well keep in the safe side, hell, it won't hurt it

Every 20,000 I change mine...and the amount of oil in your can will very by how much wot you do l;ol

yeah, i do go WOT a lot when i get the chances too so it makes sense why i have that much oil in the can. What can I say, now that i've got it, i fucking love my HEMI hahah

rub it in!

Fidostudio wrote:

rub it in!

hahahah