Help, my hose hangs down too low

[maddawg308]

And it's not genetic.

Anyways, noticed on my deuces that there is a hose that hangs down from the bottom of the turbo, on the winch truck the hose hangs below the front axle and seems to have exhaust coming out of it. On the non-winch truck, there is no hose at all mounted to the bottom of the turbo. Both trucks seem to run fine regardless.

What is this hose, and should it be attached to something else?

Please help a stupid new deuce owner. With a long dangling hose.

 

[Armada]

Please help a stupid new deuce owner. With a long dangling hose.

I won't say anything.... I want to.... but I won't.

 

[emmado22]

It's an extended road draft tube. Keeps the slobber from getting all over the starter. Yours is longer than any others I've seen......

 

[acetomatoco]

Basically, your truck should not wear Burmuda Shorts without underwear... Secondly, it is the Diesel slobber hose...it keeps the side of the engine from getting all oily from the common malady known as Diesel Slobber.. It is a little blowby and putting the hose on the pipe just introduces the waste into the slipstream and all over the windshield of the car following you too closely... Typically it is not as long as your truck's, but some are born lucky...

 

[No.2Diesel]

Its the road draft tube extended so that crankcase goodies don't make a mess in the engine compartment and so you don't get it in the cab. My "elephant trunk" is the same length and its great. I don't need to buy one of those fake ballsacks that hang from the rear axle

 

[gimpyrobb]

The deuce I just picked up for Kwai has the same hose length. Your normal, not sooper dooper.

 

[Kwai]

Thanks, Chris. It's good to know my new truck is more than adequate.

 

[oifvet]

I slightly re-routed the one on my 71 back and over the axle so it will hopefully pull a draft when moving down the road and is less likely to breath up dust and dirt like it would pointing straight down. Maybe an idea that works like I think it does, or maybe a waste of time. It does make it less noticeable and the hose end is a little higher up off the ground now.

 

[Manstein]

Mine was slobbering all over the starter and was much shorter than your johnson. I went to Home Depot and bought a piece of plastic conduit with a preformed 90 degree angle in it and extended it down just below the starter and then pointed it back behind the axle. It quit lubing my starter and fixed the nasty stain on my front axle.

 

[OPCOM]

What inside diameter of hose should I buy for the slobber tube? It seems sort of large-ish

(After 4 years, the electrical tape/pipe clamp adapter thingy I made for the too-small-diameter one is starting to come loose.)

 

[JDToumanian]

It's 1-1/4" I.D. Comes in 3' lengths at NAPA, which is just right.... Then you'll have a dangler like me and maddawg!

 

[acetomatoco]

Some trucks were fixed at birth and have no protection at all.. and until the old age drips come along, don't need one.

 

[5tonpuller]

I did my own. Was to short. ( wife tells me she is going to look for some string ) LOL
I put one on because it was getting a little messy under there. It hangs just below the wrench drive shaft.

 

[Bill W]

The one on my deuce starts dragging the asphalt when I pull up next to porsche!!

 

[steelsoldiers]

The Cummins 5.9L Dodge trucks have these crank vapor hoses too. The later ones came with a canister to collect any drips. The problem was some folks didn't empty the canisters and they ended up spewing on the ground anyways.

It would be easy to add a collection bottle to a deuce. I have seen it done before. You can do it on the cheap with a 1 liter soda bottle. Slip the hose over the mouth of the bottle, clamp it, and punch some vent holes in the top half. A fancy way would be to use a jar with a screw on lid, mason jar style. You can take a barbed bulkhead hose fitting and bolt that to the lid. Then, you just drill a series of holes around the top to vent. When it fills up a little, you can unscrew it and drain it. You can either let it dangle or fab a mount.

Just make sure you put in sufficient vent holes. Otherwise the crankcase won't vent properly and your collection jug will blow off like an oil-slinging rocket.

 

[cranetruck]

Chris, that's the working principle of the Racor "Crankvent" filter I have. It's mounted high to permit fording without worry (see separate thread).
You could even let it drain back into the crankcase....fumes are recycled via air intake.

 

[tklm539]

My truck must be Irish surplus because it has a very short hose. I still get the slobber effect. I think corrective surgery is in order to at some length , perhaps girth as well.

Tom

 

[sailor2000]

The slobber hose is not 1 1/4" ID, it is 1" ID, or at least that is what my Deuce used yesterday. Maybe it was just born unlucky.....

 

[oldshep]

I made slobber catch can out of my old primary fuel filter since i put a new filter back by the fuel tank. it seem to work good

 

[JDToumanian]

The slobber hose is not 1 1/4" ID, it is 1" ID, or at least that is what my Deuce used yesterday.

Hmm. Mine is definitely 1-1/4", I measured it before I bought the hose. The raised ring near the bottom of the metal slobber tube would actually make it 1-1/2".... So a 1-1/4" hose slides on the tube, pushes over the bump and secures with a hose clamp above the bump. Your truck must be different, as I doubt you could force 1" hose onto a 1-1/4" tube. My engine is a 1987 -1D but came with a C-turbo.

I guess everyone should measure to avoid having to make two trips to the parts store.

Jon