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Re: 98 ford explorer oil in air cleaner
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 3/18/2002

If this motor has an oil leak at some other point ie. valve cover gaskets, the pcv could be drawing outside air from the leak instead of from the crankcase causing the vacuum in the air cleaner to draw air (oil saturated) instead of acting as the breather.

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