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[millwall]

Well ive read the guides my cam covers have got a little leak even though they were done a year ago so im thinking the breathers werent done so being a bit of a div i have a couple of questions must i fully remove plenum to do the work is it only 2 pipes to clean or all 4 at the back of the black thing on the top will cleaning them ease of the leak until i can get them sorted as ive been shot in the hand so bit too painful to be getting too involved just at the moment

[Webby the Bear]

Hey up Millwall 

I take the plenum off cos at the same time I clean the breather bridge and throttle body 
clean all 4 pipes of their crud, a bent paperclip to clean two breather holes in the breather box and a drill bit of about 6mm to clean out the big breather hole.

[Webby the Bear]

.... plus also there's so much more room unless you have pipe cleaner fingers? 

[millwall]

Thanks webby will try it the propper way

[omega3000]

2 cans of carb cleaner cleans the plenum breather box out well , no need to poke it unless its solid mayo 

[Webby the Bear]

2 cans of carb cleaner cleans the plenum breather box out well , no need to poke it unless its solid mayo 

Thays why I use the screw driver as it picks up all the crap easily. i'm sure I read somewhere that you should try not to dump too much CC in the breather box 

[omega3000]

2 cans of carb cleaner cleans the plenum breather box out well , no need to poke it unless its solid mayo 

Thays why I use the screw driver as it picks up all the crap easily. i'm sure I read somewhere that you should try not to dump too much CC in the breather box 

I always take the box off , blow it through with cleaner then let it drain and dry out 

[Webby the Bear]

2 cans of carb cleaner cleans the plenum breather box out well , no need to poke it unless its solid mayo 

Thays why I use the screw driver as it picks up all the crap easily. i'm sure I read somewhere that you should try not to dump too much CC in the breather box 

I always take the box off , blow it through with cleaner then let it drain and dry out 

Aha! That's where i'm goiung wrong... I never knew you could take it off 

[05omegav6]

Do you mean the black plastic across the plenum, or the big silver box at the back

If you clean the Y shaped rubber pipe in place, the be sure to use a bucket load of carb cleaner, and change the engine oil before running the car, as that's where all the crud goes. The second largest pipe goes to a valve then to the vapour cannister in the o/s wheel arch. Too much carb cleaner down this knackers the valve, giving a smell of petrol fumes whilst running

Best is to remove the pipes to clean them, then if the two holes on the breather box are blocked, remove that and clean separately, ideally soaking overnight. Needs resealing afterwards though

A quick squirt of WD40 through all the plastic and rubber bits before refitting is also a good idea iirc Entwood or Shackeng passed on that little tip

[Webby the Bear]

Do you mean the black plastic across the plenum, or the big silver box at the back

If you clean the Y shaped rubber pipe in place, the be sure to use a bucket load of carb cleaner, and change the engine oil before running the car, as that's where all the crud goes. The second largest pipe goes to a valve then to the vapour cannister in the o/s wheel arch. Too much carb cleaner down this knackers the valve, giving a smell of petrol fumes whilst running

Best is to remove the pipes to clean them, then if the two holes on the breather box are blocked, remove that and clean separately, ideally soaking overnight. Needs resealing afterwards though

thought thatsa what we were talkin' about lol 

[05omegav6]

Just checking Mr Ted

[Entwood]

Do you mean the black plastic across the plenum, or the big silver box at the back

If you clean the Y shaped rubber pipe in place, the be sure to use a bucket load of carb cleaner, and change the engine oil before running the car, as that's where all the crud goes. The second largest pipe goes to a valve then to the vapour cannister in the o/s wheel arch. Too much carb cleaner down this knackers the valve, giving a smell of petrol fumes whilst running

Best is to remove the pipes to clean them, then if the two holes on the breather box are blocked, remove that and clean separately, ideally soaking overnight. Needs resealing afterwards though

A quick squirt of WD40 through all the plastic and rubber bits before refitting is also a good idea iirc Entwood or Shackeng passed on that little tip

Certainly not me ... I don't think I own a can of Satan's fluid ... and WD40 and plastic are not words that should be used in the same sentence unless you want a horrible sticky mess .....

[omega3000]

Do you mean the black plastic across the plenum, or the big silver box at the back

If you clean the Y shaped rubber pipe in place, the be sure to use a bucket load of carb cleaner, and change the engine oil before running the car, as that's where all the crud goes. The second largest pipe goes to a valve then to the vapour cannister in the o/s wheel arch. Too much carb cleaner down this knackers the valve, giving a smell of petrol fumes whilst running

Best is to remove the pipes to clean them, then if the two holes on the breather box are blocked, remove that and clean separately, ideally soaking overnight. Needs resealing afterwards though

thought thatsa what we were talkin' about lol 

Silver box can be took off i think  didnt take mine off as it looked a pig to get at with a bad back  , black plastic breather on top of plenum i take off to clean 

[05omegav6]

Apologies Nigel I thought it might have been either of you wiser peoples. It was at Guffers last bash, there was rugby on, and I've slept since then, so it could easily have been Guffers/TB/Lazydocker....

Or anyone else there for that matter

The reason, as I recall it, was that carb cleaner 'dries' the rubber/plastics, causing them to go brittle

[scottambrose]

how does the breather metal box come off