CCV Valve - Oil Separation Failure due to cold weather...anyone else?

[hbhavsar]

While so many X5 owners frustrated with oil separator valve problem and especially pain in a neck job to replace it, I was thinking of making some modification to mount it somewhere easy to reach location within the engine compartment. In this caase, we can not use OEM hoses but we may use oil resistant flexible hoses and attach them to the valve and place it at some place within the engine compartment so that one can easily remove and replace whenever it needed.

Anyone please reply how this idea sounds. Has anyone done such a remedy?

[dave762]

Originally Posted by hbhavsar

While so many X5 owners frustrated with oil separator valve problem and especially pain in a neck job to replace it, I was thinking of making some modification to mount it somewhere easy to reach location within the engine compartment. In this caase, we can not use OEM hoses but we may use oil resistant flexible hoses and attach them to the valve and place it at some place within the engine compartment so that one can easily remove and replace whenever it needed.

Anyone please reply how this idea sounds. Has anyone done such a remedy?

Being it relies on gravity to drain then the only place I can think of is to tee it into the dipstick tube but that is a cold spot due to the cooling fan, I am thinking it will ice up.
Dave