Thursday, November 14, 2013

Uploads by RVgeeks - RV QUICK TIP: Keeping Oil Off Your Toad (Towed Car)




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RV QUICK TIP: Keeping Oil Off Your Toad (Towed Car) If your RV is a diesel pusher like ours, and you sometimes find small specks of oil on the front of your toad (towed car), there's a little black tube under the engine that just might be the source. It's a part of the crankcase ventilation system commonly known as the breather tube (some mechanics call it the "slobber tube" instead). You'll see why here. The purpose of the breather tube is to allow excess combustion gases to escape from the engine. But if your oil is overfilled, some of it can get into the breather tube as well, causing it to spray out behind your RV as you drive down the road... and onto your car. The most obvious solution is to avoid overfilling your crankcase, but ...Read more...




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