My truck is also a 2017 hemi 5.7. As you can see, this video is 5 years old, we have a little over 100k miles on the truck now. I empty the catch can every time I change the oil. The catch can always has a bunch of real gooky looking brown stuff in it. I recommend it.
Yes that's a good point and I did take it into consideration when I installed it. I think a lot of people install them backwards because they picture the side sticking down further drawing oil into it. IMO that's wrong because you would never have so much oil in the can that it is being pushed into the top. I install so the side with the filtering is the pcv side. The filtering is there to act as a baffle to keep oil from sloshing up into the tube and defeating the purpose of the can.
In the can there are two baffles one is longer than the other. The longest one is designed so that is closet to the bottom of the can to drop oil into it, were as the other just vacuums air not oil residue. So with the said the longest one is connected to the PC valve.
@@bull5919 Yeah, I saw that, but it makes more sense to me the way I installed it (explained above). Either way it works excellent, always dump a bunch of gunk out of it on every oil change.
@@eightyopen Just for statistics I guess, I also installed this exact catch can on my 2017 ram 5.7 hemi, I also installed/plumbed it the way you did here.
No, loctite? That bolt will just rattle its way out being mounted to the motor. You would lose your bolt before you even check the oil you caught in there.
@@dmuggsy No. There is a drain on the bottom that you can simply open up to drain. If you want you can also spin off the base of the unit while mounted, empty it and clean it out.
