Cam cover breather adapter elbow variants
09-23-2010, 07:46 PM
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OK, here is one of my new variants: "a universal adapter elbow" that works in either the left or right hole in a cam cover. Took a couple of the "2R" adapter elbows and attacked them with a RotoZip with a metal cut-off wheel and then a file. That yielded good results. (The new slot is the one on the top of the outermost flanged part, in case it's not obvious.)
And while I had the RotoZip and file out, I knocked out a really crappy 1" black-pipe-based version of the "grooved nut" (900.159.008.02) turning tool. I am not proud of the workmanship on this one. I suppose I am happy that I had the sense not to waste much time on a tool that's going to be used four times and then thrown in a bin and probably never used again.
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09-23-2010, 07:50 PM
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OK, here is one of my new variants: "a universal adapter elbow" that works in either the left or right hole in a cam cover. Took a couple of the "2R" adapter elbows and attacked them with a RotoZip with a metal cut-off wheel and then a file. That yielded good results. (The new slot is the one on the top of the outermost flanged part, in case it's not obvious.)
And while I had the RotoZip and file out, I knocked out a really crappy 1" black-pipe-based version of the "grooved nut" (900.159.008.02) turning tool. I am not proud of the workmanship on this one. I suppose I am happy that I had the sense not to waste much time on a tool that's going to be used four times and then thrown in a bin and probably never used again.
And while I had the RotoZip and file out, I knocked out a really crappy 1" black-pipe-based version of the "grooved nut" (900.159.008.02) turning tool. I am not proud of the workmanship on this one. I suppose I am happy that I had the sense not to waste much time on a tool that's going to be used four times and then thrown in a bin and probably never used again.
09-23-2010, 07:58 PM
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I just use a pair of needle nose pliers to undo those nuts.
If any of you who are adding those ports to the other side have the factory plugs available please PM me, I am interested in them.
If any of you who are adding those ports to the other side have the factory plugs available please PM me, I am interested in them.
09-23-2010, 08:04 PM
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I was really bending the hell out of my pliers trying to get off the one inside the "oil separator" tube and wound up having to break it lose by banging on it (don't remember the details). I'd like to get them back on pretty tight, and all four of mine are going to have the oil separator tubes, too, so I figured it was worth the time (half an hour) to fab a tool to make it easy. Mine, of course, isn't nearly as nice as some of the 21 mm / 22 mm socket-based ones that I've seen other people make.
Hmmm... I guess I'll have two plugs left over that I won't be needing.
Funny... so many people are adding ports, and you're plugging them. Part of some universal "conservation of parts" principle, I guess.
Funny... so many people are adding ports, and you're plugging them. Part of some universal "conservation of parts" principle, I guess.
03-22-2012, 11:15 PM
#35
Has anyone done anymore on this process?
03-22-2012, 11:32 PM
#37
It seems like we could go IN these, and OUT the front filler, into a provent and then back in or vented.
03-22-2012, 11:40 PM
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I can e-mail you the drawing if you like
