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Breather Tube - Oil dumping in air filter and carb
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Randy Forbes
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I believe the owner's manual talks about lightly oiling them (or perhaps just divery the breather hose to the front carb every other 100 miles...).
To quote the 100/6 Owner's Manual:
"<span style="font-style: italic">Air Cleaners:</span> Every 6000 miles the air cleaners should be removed, cleaned and re-oiled. Swill each cleaner in paraffin, drain, immerse in engine oil and again drain before refitting."
To quote the 100/6 Owner's Manual:
"<span style="font-style: italic">Air Cleaners:</span> Every 6000 miles the air cleaners should be removed, cleaned and re-oiled. Swill each cleaner in paraffin, drain, immerse in engine oil and again drain before refitting."
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Sounds like a really good normal messy proceedure to me. I suppose that if you have a worn rocker shaft or excessive blow-by you can skip the re-oiling part.Randy Forbes said:
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Thank you very much! I am blown away at all the excellent help that I am receiving from this forum! I wish I had found this sooner.
This 3000 MKIII was my fathers. He past away suddenly and unexpectadly 18 years ago. He purchased the car in 1976....now i am the caretaker and have continued to honor his wish that I keep it on the road and drive it as often as possible. He asked that someday I pass it along to my son.
I am glad I found this site, I will be on it often...hopefully I can help others as well.
Just a quick update, I took the breather tube off the filter...stuck it in an empty plastic bottle, drove the car for over an hour at all different speeds and just a thimble full of oil was in the bottle when I was done. So, the oil may have gotten in the filter during the 500 mile break in?
Thanks again!
Happy Healeying!
Trevor Janz
Oshkosh Wisconsin
This 3000 MKIII was my fathers. He past away suddenly and unexpectadly 18 years ago. He purchased the car in 1976....now i am the caretaker and have continued to honor his wish that I keep it on the road and drive it as often as possible. He asked that someday I pass it along to my son.
I am glad I found this site, I will be on it often...hopefully I can help others as well.
Just a quick update, I took the breather tube off the filter...stuck it in an empty plastic bottle, drove the car for over an hour at all different speeds and just a thimble full of oil was in the bottle when I was done. So, the oil may have gotten in the filter during the 500 mile break in?
Thanks again!
Happy Healeying!
Trevor Janz
Oshkosh Wisconsin
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HealeyRick said:
Not necessarily, mine is a bit the same, I have replaced my rocker shaft and pillars and still have a problem, I think that it could be sticky piston rings as number 5 is showing black soot on the plug whilst the colour tune is showing a bluish burn. I am burning oil at a faily high rate.
Bob
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I think I have the same problem and so today I tried to raise the height of the T but had no chance to move it. Do I have to remove the nut on top of the rocker cover first or is it welded to the rocker cover? I ask because I even couldn't move this nut and when I tried to move the T, I bent the whole tube.
Please give me some hints so I can try it tomorrow once again.
Alex
Please give me some hints so I can try it tomorrow once again.
Alex
Keoke
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Kawalex said:I think I have the same problem and so today I tried to raise the height of the T but had no chance to move it.
Do I have to remove the nut on top of the rocker cover first or is it welded to the rocker cover?
No Alex:
Initially it was not welded.
Hint- :laugh:
However,the nut must be loosened before the " T " can be screwed out or in.--Fwiw-Keoke
? I ask because I even couldn't move this nut and when I tried to move the T, I bent the whole tube. :madder:
Please give me some hints so I can try it tomorrow once again.
Alex
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Thank you Keoke: so it worked well now! But what I got to see was a big surprise: the former owner already plugged the tube with a screw and a piece of a rubber tube from the inside!
So, the oil sucked by the airfilter must come only from the engine side and not from the rocker shaft. To have a look at the rocker shaft I started the engine without the cover and I was very lucky that no oil spreaded around but only dropped out a little bit beside the bushes.
Nevertheless I screwed the T a little bit higher and fixed it without the plug now. Time will show if the oil blow is better/worse now.
So, the oil sucked by the airfilter must come only from the engine side and not from the rocker shaft. To have a look at the rocker shaft I started the engine without the cover and I was very lucky that no oil spreaded around but only dropped out a little bit beside the bushes.
Nevertheless I screwed the T a little bit higher and fixed it without the plug now. Time will show if the oil blow is better/worse now.