DIY Breather Extensions

[strapping young lad]

ive bought quite a bit of tubing from b&q for extending the breather pipes up to the snorkel.

can someone advise on the routes best taken with the pipes, where joins should be, and considering the little amount of air being passed through i would imagine one main pipe going up the snorkel would be enough.

ta

dyf

[karloss]

There was shed loads of oohing and aahing about this very subject on here a couple of weeks back. Not sure where now.

[strapping young lad]

ooh right i will have a dig

[karloss]

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?p=20754&highlight=#20754

Try this

[karloss]

Or this.

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=859

We're a bunch of know it alls aren't we?

[karloss]

For the record, all mine are run seperate and the ends are just turned upside down to stop it raining in the axles/boxes. I used some natty blue compressor hose. Largely coz it was free.  HTH

[strapping young lad]

cool

i got the 5mm pipe for 79p a metre tonight from b&q

intend on running the back axle into a t-piece with the transfer box, then into another t-piece with the g'box up to the bulkhead

then run another from the front axle up and join both into another t-piece or Y then up the snorkel than bend it around but not kink it

i presume there are only 4 points to get breathing on a 200tdi disco?

if there are others i would like to know!

d

[karloss]

Lots if your really serious. I've seen people do the swivels, the bell housing, the timing belt cover, the rocker box, even the dipstick. (think the last one might have been the owner). Most people don't do it so much for the "breathing" so much as stopping water ingress.

[strapping young lad]

yeh it is mainly for water ingress

am getting wading plugs shortly anyway

not that i intend taking my car swimming but i will be more assured with the bits on than without

[karloss]

Wading plugs, now they are a good idea. I never bothered with those. Now have a Kaput clutch release bearing for my troubles. T'old lass does her fair share of swimming tho' :lol:

[strapping young lad]

hehe

well i would rather be over cautious than worry too much bout it as i worry enough about the car as it is!

[karloss]

Better safe than sorry. Ask any sorry person.   :roll:  :oops:

[strapping young lad]

yeh i know

im sorry enough as it is.. buying the bloody thing!  heheh

its happened to me before though, i'd bought a front diff guard from qt then hadnt bothered to fit it before going to whitworth..

now ive a dent in my diff pan!  

[chris9119]

Regarding wading plugs, be sure to remove and drain the bell housing.

I didn't with mine and now I'm a sorry persons (as well as sad).

My crank main seal leaked a little and filled the bell housing, a little.

The oil mixed with the clutch (2500 miles old) and the rest is history.

After learning all this, I thought  :!:  that I'd leave it out and still go through water. If the bell housing don't air lock, then water gets in and travels along a shaft into the gear box. If being an idiot, you don't know much mechanical stuff, the gear box oil becomes waterey. There you are driving along wondering why your gear box tunnel is getting hot (water boiling) and it getting harder to change gear, the hotter it gets.

Now I have syncro problems in 2nd & 3rd and will need to get the box overhauled by those nice people at Ashcroft (feel a reduction coming on - hopefully)

Chris