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Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:54 pm
by Max Welton
I am blasting and painting all the tin going onto my engine. I'd really like to do that with the breather too, but I can't figure out how to get it apart. It looks like the cap has to come off...
Help!
Max
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:41 am
by Bigvwhead
Hi Max
yes the plastic cap comes off (be carefull not to breat it!!)
then you will find a spanner nut that holds the two peices together, just unscrew off and thereyou have it
they make a special socket for the nut but I have used just a flat 3/16"
steel plate cut to the correct witdh and a creasent wrench
There are gaskets in there to prevent leakage that you will have to replace.
Bigvwhead
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:08 pm
by Chris V
Plumber's internal pipe wrench...
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:05 pm
by Max Welton
Thanks!
Max
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:37 am
by sideshow
I was under the impression that once one removes that plastic cap, it looses it spring and will not reattach back to where it was.
As in removing it for service renders it unusable?
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:05 am
by Max Welton
Looks reusable to me.
Max
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:44 pm
by sideshow
Max Welton wrote:Looks reusable to me.
Yeah, but does it have any spring left? It might be just like a pop rivet, one squeeze and it is all over.
Rings of RTV and self tapping screws are what I observe on that breather with my enthusiast friends. My self I have only taken one early style apart and noticed that no way was it going back together without divine intervention.
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:55 pm
by Max Welton
OK, is there a trick to getting that flange out? I can get on it with needle-nose pliers but it ain't moving.
Max
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:16 pm
by Max Welton
Well, I gave the breather a night head-down in a can of carburetor cleaner. It was much more cooperative after that.
Anyway, it turned out pretty good. And the cap is definitely reusable.
Max
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:10 pm
by stealth67vw
sideshow wrote:Max Welton wrote:Looks reusable to me.
Yeah, but does it have any spring left? It might be just like a pop rivet, one squeeze and it is all over.
Rings of RTV and self tapping screws are what I observe on that breather with my enthusiast friends. My self I have only taken one early style apart and noticed that no way was it going back together without divine intervention.
Derek is full of it......... he doesn't have any friends.
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:08 am
by notched
And if he does, they're not enthusiastic about it...
Re: Type-3 breather disassembly?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:35 pm
by blitzvw
Anyone ever thought of using a WBX breather assembly? It might need to be cut down a bit, but looks cooler and has the added benefit of not having that stupid plastic piece on the top... I've heard horror stories of type 3 engines losing that plastic cap on the top of the breather and losing oil...