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Originally Posted by asav8tor
-oil mist mixed with, water, water vapor, acids and other products of the combustion process.
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Most of the water vapour will exit as vapour through the overflow tube on the air/oil separator. That's what it's for, to separate the air (or vapour) from the oil.
All of your oil has water and acids and combustion by-products in it, not just the oil that gets up near the breather. You lose only a small percentage of your oil through your breather (in fact, in the ideal case, you lose none), and the by-products are an even smaller percentage of that small percentage. So you're not getting rid of much in the way of by-products by leaving your breather as a simple tube.
The breather is an overflow only... It's not an "exhaust pipe" for your oil system.