Rocker cover breather question......

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Rocker cover breather question......

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Today I was just messing about (removing some silencers, again, someone provided some inspiration for that :lol: :wink:) and I fitted a nice shiny chrome breather I had to the top of (what I think is) the breather at the front of the RHS bank.

This had a section of rubber hose which ran back to the throttle body - so I assumed it was an emissions thing - to get the engine to burn excess fumes to creater cleaner running.

So I stuck a bung on the hole in the TB and stuck the shiny chrome breather on the stub the rubber pipe hooked onto on the rocker cover.

Now my intention is to replace this with a pipe leading to a catch tank but I just wanted to check that I hadn't misunderstood what it was and am not endangering anything (barring the cleanliness of the bay :lol:)

Thanks all :)

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The grey cylinder atop the RHS rocker cover with the rubber hose - that's what I attatched the breather to :?:



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Post by katanaman »

It is a breather but the canister is also a flame trap, no harm in doing what you have done though.

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Post by Lewis »

That's good to know :) - Thanks! 8-)

Yea, I saw the mesh inside and thought it might be as much - will make up a catch tank soon (coke bottle anyone? :lol:) but just couldn't be doing with the engine inhaling all those nasty vapours :shock: :D

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Post by katanaman »

an environmentalist would shoot you for saying that lol they would say better the engine breathing it than people. :lol:

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