I dunno about all that work you're thinking about. It seems like way too much work to me. I do know that my buddy re routed the crank case ventilation on his diesel a while back. He just routed the line down to his exhaust tube and welded a bung in to keep everything sealed up nice and pretty. Its not supposed to hurt anything and keeps oil out if the intake. That being said, I still think like Will, just get a new valve, clean the crap out of everything and put it back together