Hey guys, Adam here with americanmuscle.com, and today I'm talking about the JLT V3.0 Oil
Separator for the passenger side of all 2018 Mustang GTs.
Now, you might be wondering, what is an oil separator?
What does it do?
And why might I want it?
Now, an oil separator is basically gonna stop and prevent oil sludge from gumming up in
your engine, hindering engine performance, and it'll even reduce blow-by.
Now, what is blow-by?
Blow-by is essentially crankcase exhaust gasses that make its way back into the engine, messing
with the intake manifold or even a supercharger if you've got forced induction.
Now, JLT's been making these things for years now, they've had the V1.0, the V2.0, now we've
got the upgraded V3.0, which essentially is just a three-ounce oil capacity can here which
is almost double the previous versions.
Now, they're also doing away with the Ford Motorcraft prefilter, and they're actually
installing a half-inch thick one-sixteenths aluminum honeycomb filter which, as you can
see if you remove this little catch can, you can see it down here.
Now, that's actually gonna stop oil vapors from gumming up in the engine as well, so
that's obviously a huge bonus over the factory stuff, and over the previous versions from
JLT.
As we got this thing off, you can see it's got that three-ounce capacity, it's got a
satin finish, and a neural texture at the bottom, so when you're doing those routine
oil changes and you wanna empty the catch can, it obviously gives you a nice grip here
to remove safely.
Now, as far as the price goes, it comes in right around 140 bucks, which, like I said
earlier, it has virtually no cons and a lot of pros, so in my opinion, the price is very
much worthwhile.
Now, as far as the install goes, I'm giving it one-out-of-three wrenches on our difficulty
meter.
Shouldn't take you longer than about 15 or 20 minutes in the driveway at home with very
simple hand tools.
I'm gonna show you how that's done, so let's get to it.
Tools needed for this install are a ratchet, extension, 15-millimeter socket, 10-millimeter
socket, and a flathead screwdriver.
So, to kick off the install, you'll need to grab a ratchet and a 15-millimeter deep socket,
and head over to your strut tower brace if you have one.
If you don't have the strut tower brace, you can skip this step and move straight on to
removing your engine cover, which I'll touch on in just a second.
So for the strut tower brace, there's four bolts, two on each side, again, 15-millimeter.
Start on this side, on your passenger side.
You'll pop off this plastic cover, grab your 15-mil, and remove these two bolts.
All right.
Do the same thing for the driver's side.
Once you have all four removed, you can come back over to the passenger side, feed it underneath
of this hose, and remove your strut tower brace.
With the brace out of the way, all we have to do is remove one 10-millimeter bolt on
each side of the engine cover, underneath these plastic clips, to pop that whole thing
off.
We're gonna use a flathead screwdriver to pop off these clips on both sides and a 10-millimeter
deep socket and an extension to get down there and remove the bolts.
At that point, once your 10-mils are loosened up and removed, you can just pull the engine
cover straight up and back off.
With the engine cover out of place, all we have to do now for the uninstall is to remove
this PCV hose.
Now, to do so, you just pull back on the gray clip and pull each plug off of the engine.
It's very simple.
All right, we'll start here on the left-hand side.
This gray clip here, you'll push forward toward the front end of the vehicle and pull straight
back.
Do the same thing for the other end of the hose.
To show you a little bit of a stock comparison here, here's the factory PCV hose, and here's
your JLT oil separator.
So you see it's in the basic general shape of the factory hose here.
Now, you might have to do a little bit of rotating to make that match exactly where
these plugs will go.
So on the right-hand side, you just give it a little twist, get it facing the same way,
same thing for the opposite side.
Now you're ready to install it.
So now that we have this installed, you can see here the difference between the factory
one.
Before, the oil would just pass through the hose and right back into the engine.
Here, it'll pass through, get filtered through your oil separator, and then make its way
back into the engine.
This just makes it a lot cleaner, filters out the particles.
You don't want any oil vapor getting back into the engine, so like I said, lots of plus
sides, no cons.
Now, before we get our engine cover and our strut tower brace back into place, I just
wanted to stop down and make a few points here.
As you can see, it's very clean in the engine bay.
It blends in really nicely with what you have going on.
This has the satin finish and the brushed aluminum look.
There is a black version as well if you'd like to get it to blend in more.
I personally like this little satin finish here, I think it gives a nice contrast to
the engine bay while still looking like it belongs there.
Now, as far as routine maintenance is concerned, when it comes time to empty this thing out,
clean it from all the vapors and whatnot it filtered into the little catch pan here, all
you'd have to do is pop your engine cover off just like we did a second ago, twist this
out of place, empty it, clean it, and throw it right back into place.
When it comes to removing it, it's really as simple as pulling them off.
It's really, really simple.
Again, one-out-of-three wrenches on the difficulty meter here.
All we have left to do is pop the engine cover back on, the strut tower brace, and then we're
good to go.
Once you have the engine cover in place, these nuts you'll wanna put inside these holes here
so that once you seat it onto the bolt, it'll actually start threading on top, and you can
put your 10-millimeter socket and your extension down there to tighten it up.
If you try to drop it in after it's been seated, it'll be really tough to get this thing to
seat on your studs, so you wanna make sure it's in the hole when you're putting the engine
cover on so that it seats itself, and then you can tighten them down.
You gotta like seat it and guide it onto the stud, and then you can tighten it with a finger.
With your nuts tightened down, take the engine cover caps, pop them right back into place.
Take your strut tower brace if you have one, feed it underneath of this hose here, seat
them on the studs on both sides, and tighten them down with the 15-millimeter socket.
All right.
And finishing up that last bolt on our strut tower brace, that's gonna wrap up my install
and review for the JLT V3.0 Oil Separator, the passenger side of our 2018 Mustang GT.
If you wanna get it for yourself, you can check it out right here at americanmuscle.com.
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