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Old 09-28-2013, 06:44 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Hey, thanks for the links. I read through them. Not sure what to say, except that a couple posters there are directly contradicting what Honda corporate is saying, and others are just confused listening to people who don't really know. Honda made the car so my money's with them. Don't mean to be rude, but one whole thread is based on bad info. One poster even said putting a PCV valve on his VX (when Honda calls for one) made his car run worse at low rpm. That makes no sense whatsoever, unless he accidentally didn't seal it up tight & had a leak when finished. Or something else was going on. If there was no PCV valve, every time the crank pulsed vacuum due to piston movement it would be fighting against the intake vacuum. *That* would make it run worse.

It's ironic because the guy who started one thread even attached the picture I was trying to upload but he never included the corresponding parts list that would have shown it as an actual PCV valve!

This should help...part #2 on the illustration is what actually looks like a *normal* PCV valve, but isn't, it's just an empty joint. That threw me off at first too when I took it all apart, and reading through the second thread you posted others have as well. I'm thinking that little detail is the source of a lot of confusion for people. The elbow is the PCV valve, not the joint, and that's according to Honda corporate, not me.
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