Type-3 breather disassembly?
- Max Welton
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Type-3 breather disassembly?
I am blasting and painting all the tin going onto my engine. I'd really like to do that with the breather too, but I can't figure out how to get it apart. It looks like the cap has to come off...
Help!
Max
Help!
Max
- Bigvwhead
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Hi Max
yes the plastic cap comes off (be carefull not to breat it!!)
then you will find a spanner nut that holds the two peices together, just unscrew off and thereyou have it they make a special socket for the nut but I have used just a flat 3/16"
steel plate cut to the correct witdh and a creasent wrench
There are gaskets in there to prevent leakage that you will have to replace.
Bigvwhead
yes the plastic cap comes off (be carefull not to breat it!!)
then you will find a spanner nut that holds the two peices together, just unscrew off and thereyou have it they make a special socket for the nut but I have used just a flat 3/16"
steel plate cut to the correct witdh and a creasent wrench
There are gaskets in there to prevent leakage that you will have to replace.
Bigvwhead
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Plumber's internal pipe wrench...
- Max Welton
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Thanks!
Max
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- sideshow
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
I was under the impression that once one removes that plastic cap, it looses it spring and will not reattach back to where it was.
As in removing it for service renders it unusable?
As in removing it for service renders it unusable?
Yeah some may call it overkill, but you can't have too much overkill.
- Max Welton
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Looks reusable to me.
Max
Max
- sideshow
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Yeah, but does it have any spring left? It might be just like a pop rivet, one squeeze and it is all over.Max Welton wrote:Looks reusable to me.
Rings of RTV and self tapping screws are what I observe on that breather with my enthusiast friends. My self I have only taken one early style apart and noticed that no way was it going back together without divine intervention.
Yeah some may call it overkill, but you can't have too much overkill.
- Max Welton
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
OK, is there a trick to getting that flange out? I can get on it with needle-nose pliers but it ain't moving.
Max
Max
- Max Welton
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Well, I gave the breather a night head-down in a can of carburetor cleaner. It was much more cooperative after that.
Anyway, it turned out pretty good. And the cap is definitely reusable.
Max
Anyway, it turned out pretty good. And the cap is definitely reusable.
Max
- stealth67vw
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Derek is full of it......... he doesn't have any friends.sideshow wrote:Yeah, but does it have any spring left? It might be just like a pop rivet, one squeeze and it is all over.Max Welton wrote:Looks reusable to me.
Rings of RTV and self tapping screws are what I observe on that breather with my enthusiast friends. My self I have only taken one early style apart and noticed that no way was it going back together without divine intervention.
- notched
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
And if he does, they're not enthusiastic about it...
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Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Anyone ever thought of using a WBX breather assembly? It might need to be cut down a bit, but looks cooler and has the added benefit of not having that stupid plastic piece on the top... I've heard horror stories of type 3 engines losing that plastic cap on the top of the breather and losing oil...