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Subject:Re: Breather tower test?
From:Zoltan Kuthy
Date:Sat, 17 May 2008 15:38:41 -0700

Ken,
That tube looks way off the breather's location.  Its on the center line of
the engine.  Somehow it is not visible how it connects to the breather's old
place.  The fuel lines are in the way to see.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Lewis" <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: Breather tower test?

> That is  curious. I replaced the breather tower with a half inch copper
> tube: http://neksiwel.20m.com/cgi-bin/i/images/p9110067.jpg
> and I would swear my oil consumption dropped dramatically.  This engine
> has
> over a quarter of a million miles too.
>
> Ken Lewis
> http://neksiwel.20m.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>>> PLEASE .........do tell about this diaphragm-valve  thing inside the oil
>>> breather tower
>>> On a waterboxer vanagon.
>>> Where did you get that ?
>>
>> OK, Scott ... check out this post on thesamba.  Scroll down and you'll
>> see photos of where 10� Life cut one open with a sawzall to show a
>> deteriorated diaphragm.
>>
>> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=295812&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
>>
>
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