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breather leaking oil

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i bought one of those air filters that goes where the oil filler cap is, but oil is leaking out of the filter. why?
 

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What valve covers do you have? Also, if you are injected and running your pcv system, you should not run a breather there. It creates a big vaccuum leak allowing unmetered air into the intake.
 
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i have the stock valve covers, a blower its efi and i have the pcv hooked up
 

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Did you remove the baffle under the filler tube for roller rockers?
 
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it had 1.7 roller rockers when i bought it so im sure it was removed
 
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