Subject: RE: Eldo air breather
Author: Fred Sahms
Date: Feb 4, 2002, 8:24 AM
Post ID: 1709560385
I have also seen leaks at the cam bearing welsh plug. If so, clean and
JB weld to fix.
Bruce Giller wrote:
Fred, Yep, there is oil at the bottom of the bell housing. Some which came from the rear main bearing seal/gasket area and some from the two pipes leading into the air breather. 90% of the interior surfaces of the bell housing (both engine and tranny sides) are free of oil. The oil is relegated to behind the flywheel and there seems to almost as much at the top of the engine side as there is at the bottom which would indicate that the air breather is supplying some of the oil. I'm going to check to make sure that both air breather tubes are free of obstruction and then wash out the air breather itself with gas. I'll also have a look at the check valve but a bad check valve just means that I'd be dumping lots of oil out the outside vent tube to the ground according to Guzziology. I never did replace the oil vent tube to the outside (about 3' of the stuff). What would make a good replacement? BTW, the rear main bearing carrier popped off the back of the engine easily yesterday. I had to drill three holes in some flat metal stock to span the distance between the two bolts (6.5") and one for the center of my HF&S puller. Getting the seal out of the carrier was harder than getting the carrier out of the engine. Bruce Fred Sahms wrote: =
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