HUEY 1978 Westy Champagne special eddition

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  1. vinnyboy

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    I'll check on that. Maybe dvla just got it wrong.
     
  2. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    i tagged you in his post about it.
     
  3. vinnyboy

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    Ta. Just been looking. Wow he's really getting stuck in. Nice bus. I would consider going back to the brown one day.:thinking:
     
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  4. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    you know it makes sense
     
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  5. Don't look into his eyes!
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  6. vinnyboy

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    20150707_193249.jpg Oil change. Tappets done. Carbs tuned. New throttle cable. Running nice and smooth again.
     
  7. vinnyboy

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    20150706_185023.jpg Fitted a breather box
     
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  8. Merlin Cat

    Merlin Cat Moderator

    Hi Vinnyboy,
    Is that for the oil? I've got a van that had a fuel injection and now has twin carbs. There is an unconnected oil breather pipe that puts a bit of oil out over my engine. There is, I believe, some sort of filter? (Inside the corner of the van where the air vents are.)

    Yours looks very nice, by the way. :)
     
  9. vinnyboy

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    Cheers. I'm guessing your referring to the carbon canister behind the right rear lamp. You can chuck this away. Type fours have a metal breather box clipped on to the middle of the case. It's best to vent this outside the engine bay or in to the air filter to stop fumes in your heaters. I've used an additional breather box to add some bling and as a T to split gasses to both carbs. You can see I've also got the fuel tank breather pipe in here.
     
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  10. vinnyboy

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  11. vinnyboy

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    20150712_155212-2.jpg Original vw breather
     
  12. Hi sorry for being thick but can you explain what the 'bugpack' box does between your carbs with the rubber hosing linking the air filter tops?

    thanks
     
  13. It allows oil fumes to be sucked into the inlet so it can be reburnt
    For a engine that runs at high rpm often and builds up a positive crank case pressure
    The vacum of the inlet decreases the crank case pressure

    Vw originally used a breather system that partialy dumped to atmosphere along with a vacum to provide pressure relief at the same time
     
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  14. vinnyboy

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    Just as Para said, but to add a bit of confusion this is what I had to do. ...
    The standard bugpack breather is designed to have three inlets from both rocker covers and the crank case and then vents to the atmosphere. This was no good to me as I did not want fumes in my heaters so I modified the breather box to make it a sealed unit. It now has one inlet from the crank case and two outlets to each carb.
     
  15. vinnyboy

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    20150726_205917.jpg New sign for back of van. Lol
     
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  17. vinnyboy

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    Treat myself to a half day and dug the van out of hibernation. Washed it and give the bug a quick wipe over. The sun is shining. It doesn't get better than this.
     
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  18. vinnyboy

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    It's just a standard fuel injection exhaust with a vauxhall astra vxr tail pipe bolted on. I made an aluminium heat shield to hide the rusty silencer. As it happens only yesterday I've fitted a nice new silencer and cat replacement pipe from vwh.
     
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