oil dripping

[nicolas]

i have noticed that the engine drips some oil out off the breatherbox (stock type3) on the exhaust. i find this very annoying, but i can't really understand why this is happening.
i have the orignal breatherbox connected to a small breatherbox that has some hoses from the valvecovers as well. the oillevel is on the lowest mark off the dipstick since i run an extra sump. why does the oil go up into the breather and what can be done to stop this?

[Neil Davies]

Sounds like there is a problem with the extra ventilation. I'm sure I've posted about this before!

Taken from the breather thread in Pure Racing:

"I found that the routing of breather hoses was very important. My little 1600 revved to around 6000rpm and had breather pipes from the rocker covers and the oil filler and fuel pump block offs. The various pipes were joined by T-pieces into one line and then went to a breather box made from an old fire extinguisher (nice little aluminium bottle between the decklid hinges!). Used that same arrangement with my 2180 and got a weep from one rocker cover, then with the 2276 it got worse. Both revved to about 7400rpm. We worked out that the one rocker cover was becoming pressurised by the route of the breathers at high RPM - made another box with four "in"s and one "out" with a little K&N filter."

[nicolas]

thanks.

there is also a small leak on the driver side cover (normal driversside LHD it is  ) and i have to check the hoses and see if they are still OK and not bent.
any other ideas about what to use on a type3 are always welcome.

[Felix/DFL]

Hi Nicolas,

there is a small paper seal between the breather-box and the alu-pickup.Check that seal or grout it.

And there is a pipe going from the breather-box if you got the big one downside.Plug that pipe. I open it up every time I check the valves.

I even throwed away the "plastic-sock" or so, which is inside the breather.Don`t take the  metal sleeve out...

I routed a hose from the orig. breather box to a small empi style one which is mounted behind the engine.Mount that one at the highest position possible.

Greetz!

[nicolas]

well i could plug it. that is also an option. the long metal pipe drips oil on the exhaust and on the floor off my parents in law  so that is not good.  but i do have a small breatherbox on the upper wall, next to the righthand carb. but it isn't good enough it seems to avoid the oil coming up and not spill oil from the original one.
the gaskets are OK. thanks for pointing that out as well.
maybe the car is trying to lose weight off it's own just to be quicker and beat that antracite notch it saw a week ago... 

so basically the engine will spill oil and it isn't a real problem...

[Felix/DFL]

well i could plug it. that is also an option. the long metal pipe drips oil on the exhaust and on the floor off my parents in law  so that is not good.  but i do have a small breatherbox on the upper wall, next to the righthand carb. but it isn't good enough it seems to avoid the oil coming up and not spill oil from the original one.
the gaskets are OK. thanks for pointing that out as well.
maybe the car is trying to lose weight off it's own just to be quicker and beat that antracite notch it saw a week ago... 
so basically the engine will spill oil and it isn't a real problem...

Have you got the rubberpiece installed at the end of the pipe? Normaly there is a rubber which reduces flow. Otherwise plug it!
Antracite notch? sounds interesting, got pics? 

[nicolas]

well i could plug it. that is also an option. the long metal pipe drips oil on the exhaust and on the floor off my parents in law  so that is not good.  but i do have a small breatherbox on the upper wall, next to the righthand carb. but it isn't good enough it seems to avoid the oil coming up and not spill oil from the original one.
the gaskets are OK. thanks for pointing that out as well.
maybe the car is trying to lose weight off it's own just to be quicker and beat that antracite notch it saw a week ago... 
so basically the engine will spill oil and it isn't a real problem...

Have you got the rubberpiece installed at the end of the pipe? Normaly there is a rubber which reduces flow. Otherwise plug it!
Antracite notch? sounds interesting, got pics? 

no rubber piece anymore as they always seem to be cracked or missing on engines i have had... so i can plus it.

antracite notch, no pictures, but i saw one on the net, right in front off a brown fastback... 

thanks for the help.