I am looking at an 03 Lightning with 27k miles. It has a chrome canister on the passengers side of the motor, just above the valve cover. The canister is about the size of a red bull can and has 4 hoses coming out of it. One of the hoses goes to the valve cover. I just took a quick look at it today. I am going back tomorrow to look at it again. Any ideas what this canister is? I have a pic of it but for some reason I cannot attach it. I created a photo album on my profile page and put the pictures there. There is also an aftermarket boost gauge installed. How can I tell if the supercharger pulley has been changed? Thanks for the help.

 

 

Goes to the valve cover ? Must be a water/oil separator. Just Guessing.

 

Like this I expect -

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...-write-up.html

 

Yep, its an oil seperator. Keeps the IC clean, very smart owner. It's a MUST for any L owner.

 

sorry i about fell outta my chair when i read that line in the svtperformance posting lol.

 

Thanks for the replies. And thanks jbrew for posting the pics (sorry, I am new at this). I assume the seperator comes a part somehow so you can empty the accumulated oil. How often do you have to empty it?

 

That's nothin, I was tryin to choke down a big plate of spaghetti while runnin thru a few threads over their. Needless to say, - I turned my big jack pine desktop into a fricken hairy crab apple tree lookin thing

At-least I cleared the keyboard this time

But yea, those guys crack me up...hilariously

 

Depends on the set up, - that one looks real nice, not cheap by no means. You'll have to get a better look at it, I can't tell, - I can see there's some sort of by-pass. It may purge itself. I've seen them with a petc0ck type deal before. But yea , that ones rapped, he has a valve down there or something I imagine. I doubt you have to spin the bowl off with that set up.

You may want to empty it more in cold climate situations. Other than that, I really don't know. I'd check it every oil change. That little by-pass deal on the side there might be an over flow , - for when you forget

Definitely nice to have tho.

 

That little bypass as jbrew called it, should be a clear tube so you can see how much oil is in the seperator.
I would empty it when it's about half way full.

The more boost you run,,,the faster they fill up!

Phil

 

Oh mann!! I was going to say that, but the damn thing looked like it had a brass tube,- from the pic. So I called it a bypass, cause it sounded cool to me, at the the time.

I thought I was safe from feelin stupid, -guess not...

Dangg!



Yea, thanks for that, - phil

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Is it to late to say,- I knew what it was the whole time ?