Re: pcv valve...

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T.R.E. Jr." <T_R_E_Jr@domain.elided>
To: "Ryan Moore" <baradium@domain.elided>; "ihc-digest" <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 22:08
Subject: Re: pcv valve...


> ---Sorry no one has answered yet, and sorry I have been so busy that I
> haven't been able to check my email and get you and answer sooner. As I
said
> in report after I regasketed and installed a new grommet on my 304, the
> original and correct PCV valve is a tight fit. If you have the one that
has
> a hump in the center of the bottom fitting, it will take a little
centering,
> twisting and pressure to get it to pop in place. Once done, I would think
it
> would be more a problem removing the PCV valve than the original install.
> Seemed like it was a snap-tight fit when I installed mine.
>
> ---Thank you,
> -T.R.E.Jr.
> -`73 Scout II (StoneThrower)
> -`51 Farmall H (Heinz)
> -`49 IH fridge (presently unnamed and in need of a compressor)
> -`49 Plymouth Special Deluxe 4-door Sedan (Papapalooza)
>

Definately seemed like a snap-tight fit.  I've had one person tell me he
gave up and never got the valve all the way in, one tell me that it's really
really easy and I must've just had the grommet in wrong, and then you seem
to be in between.

Before resorting to the standing on the valve to get it to pop into place, I
was doing so much twisting and pressure with my hands that I have a nice
gash in one of my fingers, a big flap of skin hanging off, a little too
thick to be able to trim the flap off too...  gonna be wearing a bandage
over that for a while...  It was like the ledge in the grommet was the same
width or a little narrower than the inner edge of the bottom fitting, so the
bottom fitting wouldn't start past that ledge.

-Ryan