need some adv on some pushrod tube and seals also on changing the front main seal pulley end do i need to remove the eng also i was thinking about fitting a set of scat adj pushrod tubes thanks crock

Type 1??

Heads need to come off to do push rod seals.

I have never had good luck with the spring type adjustable ones.
I have used the screw type to some degree of success

There is no seal at the pulley end.
It is an oil slinger on the crank
If you are leaking there you have way too much pressure in the crank

what is the cause of to much pres my oil pres cold is 45 hot about 30

what oil pre shoud i have the eng is a2180 type 1

what breather set up do you have??

A big motor like that needs to breath

i have breather pipes from tappet covers plus the main engine filling breather all going to a central breather.

crank case pressure

Do you have a breather system hooked up that allows the case to vent pressure, or better still vacumn to the carb(s)
Yes if you dont want to pull the heads adjustable tubes will be your only solution

the engine has twin 44 webbers should i run the standard pipe at the filler to the top of the air cleaner. should this make a difference? .. i have noticed oil droplets coming out the bottom of the original breather tube cheers.

yeah okay, i would close that one off with a late filler that doesnt have it

Imagine the crank and cam flying trough the oil in the engine its going to mist to a certain extent as well as build pressure....the idea is to not only relieve that pressure but separate the oil from the air too

All lines should be self draining via gravity to the sump direction and yes vacumn to the breather box you have will add to the capacity to relieve so long as the box is also baffled to separate the oil from the air

flick up some pics, they will help to no end

the breather box is mounted above the gear box 3 lines in tappets and oil filler and 1 out should i tee in and pipe to the top of the air cleaner to help with the vacume

shit iam 47 and just learning to type how do i do the photos

Pulley end can also be aftermarket pulley being too small od at the oil scroll, but crank pressure must be relieved. Generally I don't recommend venting to air filters, they will provide minimal vacume and the oil fumes greatly reduce octane. Get a better breather, the small common aftermarket ones always leak oil, they are not big enough, they hold about 10mm of iol inside that doesn't drain back so it leaks, the foam filter disentergrates quickly too.

As for pushrod tubes, the good quality ones are JC or Scat, even Empi have a rip of the JC that is reasonable, they must be the ones with the internal 2 or 3 Orings and spring loaded to deal with the expansion and contraction of the engine.

yeah matt hard to stick all the info up when stuck on this bloody phone for the net

haha spring chicken. whats that make me then? an embryo?

anyway I am thinking you should benefit from a catch can.
Its similar to a breather box but more can shaped and likely bigger. They work in a similar ways but with an addition of an oil return.

So basically the breather line run to it. The baffles condense the mist back into liquid and it all collects at the bottom where is drains back into the sump via a return line (can must be above engine ).
Just as the breather box has a breather vent so does the catch can, which can be run either filter vent, to intake or a vacuum pump.

Vlad

Crock

have a read here

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thanks for all of your replies A LOT TO PONDER OVER its alot different to my old 62 1200 beetle once i learn how to post some photos i will show you my 71 beast Also i am in the prosses of a body of restro 71 beetle quite a bit of rust heat channels door pillers front and rear wheel arches front strut holders ect but i am enjoing the challenge cheers crock

Guys, Im curious, Ive not used gasket goo on the pushrod tube seals. Is this a common practice over east?

Cheers

Newt

I use good quality seals (the slipery feeling ones) and no goo........lucky we're not all the same it'd be boring.....hey Lee?

For a 'forced induction' setup... the breather lines would be after the blower, to pressurise the crankcase right? (reduce blow by etc. etc.)... Or is that something that only the modern engines can handle (i've seen it on a few ricers thats all... pressurised from after the blower into the rocker cover breather on a few I4's...