Would it be redundant to say DITTO? LOL. I'm somewhat offended by this late offer to fix. I put fuel injection hose on mine and the smell is gone. If you want to fix this for me send me a drain kit and we'll call it even...
Remember the drain kit probably uses the same hose for the CC it will smell again! So that's why I just bought my own 3/8 valve and Inj hose. You might have enough room under can to just put the valve directly on it and a cup under it when you drain eliminating another smelly hose situation. I have the valve and hose still sitting on my work bench because I am tired of working on this stupid thing.
I understand your frustration guys. We have identified that there was an issue with the hoses that we initially had in our inventory.
It's hard to know whether you have some in that batch or not as we don't serialize our hoses like we do with radiators/intercoolers, however, I don't want you to have to take a chance on it, so we'll put you in touch with CS for a replacement, PM coming your way. Thanks for reaching out!I have not installed my catch can yet. Should I get new hoses from @Mishimoto before I install it? I purchased it quiet a while ago, just have not got around to installing it.
I realize it's like a 10min job... I am ashamed.
I just changed the brass filter in my can to try and get rid of the rattling, and what do you know... The driver part of my umpteen-in-one screwdriver fell down behind the engine. All the way down past the axelrod, about even with where the exhaust line runs .Worked out just fine other than dropping the screwdriver in the engine bay lol..
Bracket length would be perfect if it was 1/4 inch longer for the location I used... Other than that, i guess we'll see if the hoses bleed odor like most have been saying..
lol.. yeah I still haven't found the screwdriver I dropped down there. Can't see it from up top.. Just gonna need to go from from underneath... Maybe on the next oil change lol
Hey. I wanna know who is going to take there time once again to see if their 'new' hoses sent by Mishimoto will actually work and not smell. Please let us know people if you did the new hose install. I am done working on it. They just sent an email stating they are sending me the 'new' hoses. I will keep them in a cabinet for now if my Barricade' Greenshield hoses fail then I will try the new Mishimoto ones. Seems as though the black ones I had in the past are made roughly the same. I got the black with orange center three times. All failed. Now my replacement ones they just sent say the same thing in my email! I'll confirm once I have in hand. So TommiTurbo let us know if you do the swap. I'm done being Guinnea Pig for them.
Good afternoon @Farcry1010,
I purchased a catch can a while ago and saw your posts on the hoses smelling so I was hesitant on installing it right away. I got in touch with Mishimoto and they are sending me their new batch of black hoses and once I receive them I'll be installing them into my hatchback. I do a lot of driving (around 120 miles a day) so if the smell does come from these hoses I'll be sure to post it. Just in case it does smell I have already bought the brass fittings and Barricade Greenshield hose from your post that supposedly have fixed your issue.
Yeah I bought Greenshield hose because TommiTurbo posted that originally he said he had good luck with it. So far so good with Greenshield for me as well. But I only have 50 miles on it so far. If it stays the way it is I'll leave it. I still need to install a valve I bought so I can drain easily into a cup.
@Mishimoto I just got a Catch Can in the mail the other day with RED hoses and like @Snoopyslr I don't want to install it until I am 100% POSITIVE there will be no fuel smell. I am not going to deal with that so I would love some replacement hoses to be sure otherwise I will probably just return it. Thank you for your replies to all of us here.
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I had the black hoses, and I smelled fuel for months. I also had a rattling brass filter inside the can, but when I replaced that I also used an adjustable wrench to tighten the threaded hose connectors about as far as they would go (as the directions state, they DO NOT tighten flush with the can). Since that time, about two weeks ago, the smell has been much less. I'm not sure if there is any new contributions to the smell: Whenever I go by my workbench where I stored the factory hoses replaced by the Mishimoto ones in the box the catch can came in, I can smell that waste fuel/oil scent.... Once it is on something, it's going to smell almost forever. Could be that the lingering scent i get a lot less frequently and severely now is a result of whatever fumes escaped from the under-torqued threaded connectors and clung to other surfaces under the hood.
