Breather Tube - Oil dumping in air filter and carb

[Keoke]

After the mesh has been cleaned, should the mesh be coated with anything to help collect the dirt? Example, K&N has a spray for their air filters.

Just use the recommended oiling OK---Keoke

 

[Randy Forbes]

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."

 

[Patrick67BJ8]

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."

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.
Patrick

 

[Keoke]

Sounds like a really good normal messy proceedure to me.

:lol: Sure is if you do it that way but an oil squirt can works a treat--Keoke

 

[TrevorJ]

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

 

[Bob_Spidell]

Hi Trevor,

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Bob

 

[bob hughes]

Sounds like you need a new rocker arm shaft and bushings for the rocker arm pedestals.

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

 

[Keoke]

Raise the height of the metal "T" tube in the valve cover it may be sucking oil off the baffle-Keoke

 

[Kawalex]

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

 

[Keoke]

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

 

[Kawalex]

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.