last pic at
http://www.teglerizer.com/mgstuff/obs_engine_compartment.htm
alloy cover with a brass 'rounded bend' breather.
(it was in the cover when the car was purchased)
Paul Tegler
ptegler@cablespeed.com
www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Shaw" <shaws@mlcltd.com>
To: "Rocky Frisco" <rock@rocky-frisco.com>; "Paul Root" <ptroot@iaces.com>;
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: alloy valve cover
> At 3:00 PM -0500 7/21/2004, Rocky Frisco wrote:
> >Paul Root wrote:
> >
> >>Periodically, I get a wild hair about putting a polished alloy valve
cover
> >>on the 'Bs engine. But they don't have breathers for hooking it up to
the
> >>carbon canister.
> >>
> >>Is it possible to put a breather on one of these?
> >>
> >>No, I'm not going to use a vented cap.
>
> I run an Offenhauser(SP) breather attached to my aluminum valve cover
> on my A. I got it from Speedway Motors here in Lincoln, NE. I have
> had no trouble with oil leakage around the inspection plates since (I
> run a 5 main 1800 engine from a B)
>
> --
> Bob Shaw
> Check out Shaw's Garage at http://www.mlcltd.com/shawsgarage/
> My British Car is NOT leaky - it's merely marking its territory.
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