If I had a pound for every time someone says....

Vagrent · Sep 1, 2010

...'you gotta hole in you radiator' or 'mate there's smoke coming out you grille'

Or just commenting on my, TD (removed breather pipe from oil filter to inlet manifold)
smoking I will cry....well, I wont cry I will politely inform them that its a breather pipe and try not to bore em with to many facts

Any one got any good tips to hide the smoke?
I have tried several methods but all have failed, now pipe is wedged in the chassis blowing in there.

It doesn't affect the engine at all, in fact its a lovely sounding and clean engine, apart from a few oil drips

Don't think its gonna die any time soon so I can put me 200tdi in yet..

A nice simple tip to minimise the visual impact of 'smoke' coming from my grille will be greatly received

Many thanks in advance and HI ALL

!

fanatic · Sep 1, 2010

we used to cut open blocked montego breathers and put metal gold scouring pads in and weld up, the trick would be to catch the droplets and let the vapour go

ratty · Sep 1, 2010

Stick a feck off long pipe on it so it exits the rear near the exhaust.

Mseries3 · Sep 1, 2010

Do you reckon something like this - UNIVERSAL ENGINE & CRANK BREATHER FILTER & CLIP on eBay (end time 15-Sep-10 16:45:02 BST) Would work? My engine is the same (Or was when it had an injector pump!), starts on the button, plently of power... just this vapour

brnocz · Sep 1, 2010

friend of mine used to do short circuit racing, no oil on the track and what he did was get a steel gallon can, fit the breather pipe into the hole and drill holes around where the handle fits, 1/4 way down the can he fastened another pipe to the can to exaust the smoke and this was fastened to a bracket secured by a sump bolt at the back of the engine,

sypher · Sep 1, 2010

Vagrent said:
A nice simple tip to minimise the visual impact of 'smoke' coming from my grille will be greatly received !

Drain the oil out of it - hey presto no oil to vapourise

Badger · Sep 2, 2010

i had the same issue the other week, combined with the exhaust to turbo clamp being loose the wife was complaining of smells n feeling sick whilst out driving, i put it down to the usual landy sounds n smells as i drive around with the window down.

Turns out there is a few holes down by the fuse box into the engine bay which weren't sheilded properly and she was getting exhaust fumes pumped into her side of the cab

The upside was she didn't say much on long journeys.....

Seriously though, i just cable tied the pipe to the airbox pipe and point it downwards, so far it's been ok for no smoke combined with a service, plugs, injectors, filters etc, have you done a service lately?

Vagrent · Sep 2, 2010

cheers guys there are some good tips there

I have added a long pipe but he's only long enough to reach the front of the chassis where the bumper mounts.

fanatic Re: If I had a pound for every time someone says....
we used to cut open blocked montego breathers and put metal gold scouring pads in and weld up, the trick would be to catch the droplets and let the vapour go

don't know of any scrapper montegos to scavenge for bits.

ratty Re: If I had a pound for every time someone says....
Stick a feck off long pipe on it so it exits the rear near the exhaust.

Not a bad plan, like it, might search the building site down the road for pipe, tomorrow night

sypher Re: If I had a pound for every time someone says....
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vagrent
A nice simple tip to minimise the visual impact of 'smoke' coming from my grille will be greatly received !

Drain the oil out of it - hey presto no oil to vapourise

day 09:28 PaulWilde Re: If I had a pound for every time someone says....
i had the same issue the other week, combined with the exhaust to turbo clamp being loose the wife was complaining of smells n feeling sick whilst out driving, i put it down to the usual landy sounds n smells as i drive around with the window down.

Turns out there is a few holes down by the fuse box into the engine bay which weren't sheilded properly and she was getting exhaust fumes pumped into her side of the cab

The upside was she didn't say much on long journeys.....

Seriously though, i just cable tied the pipe to the airbox pipe and point it downwards, so far it's been ok for no smoke combined with a service, plugs, injectors, filters etc, have you done a service lately?

done all me filters but not injectors yet, will that help?
According to my folder I got with it, the injectors were done 20000miles ago, but that was 4 years ago

Vagrent · Sep 2, 2010

Mseries3 said:
Do you reckon something like this - UNIVERSAL ENGINE & CRANK BREATHER FILTER & CLIP on eBay (end time 15-Sep-10 16:45:02 BST) Would work? My engine is the same (Or was when it had an injector pump!), starts on the button, plently of power... just this vapour

same with mine, reckon that filter will just clog in a few miles

Need some sort of condensing 'pot' with a drain plug and feed the 'clean' oiless vapour back into the inlet manifold.

SHEDJIM · Sep 2, 2010

Hey V, hows the house????

BT took their time with ya phone line didnt they....
You could feed ya engine some nuts an bolts, soon kill it that will. Put 200tdi engine in problem solved and more power to boot, happy days

If I had a pound for every time someone says....

Vagrent

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fanatic

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ratty

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