Ford Crossflow cathch tank/Breather

[pridaux]

Hi Guys
I wonder have any of you got pictures of your set up for the engine breather/catch tank on a 1700 crossflow please
Andrew

[wadsapple]

Just got to finish my new lay out tomorrow ie pipes into the catch tank.So first pic Crank case breather under the carb...



into a tee with a pipe from rocker breather into that tee as well...



those connected together will have one pipe up to my catch tank, eventually in ally but for the time being it is a washer bottle behind battery.....



hopefully that will stop the torrie canyon under the engine and on the girlfriends driveway

[pridaux]

Thanks is it normal to have the catch tank as high as that above the breather or should it be below the breather or ideally level with the breather or does it make any difference
A

[foxdog]

Andrew have a look at page 9 in Burtons on line E-Catalogue it will tell you all you need to know.

Alan

[P100]

Have a look at Ratsport catch tanks. I have one on my Vixen! They are polished aluminium and work very well
You can have a look if your at the pre 80 s on Sunday
Roy

[pridaux]

Thanks Guys Burtons helped a lot i will be keen to look at the various ones at the pre 80s hopefully the Vixen will be with me if the Head comes back in time all sorted
Cheers
A

[Cerberus90]

Be interested to see a few of these for ours too. We've got a catch tank fitted, but most of the time it's not connected, we just ran the breather pipe down to the floor (after cutting the bottom of the PCV valve off, and put a K&N little filter on the filler cap.

[wadsapple]

So after reading the Burton blurb I will do away with my tee and run separate pipes to the catch tank. As I read it, it will be best to put catch tank at least level with top of rocker box. For me catch tank behind the battery will work best

[wadsapple]

Hi Andrew

Not sure if this is needed now but I did the plumbing for my vent system on my vixen today,Ok garden hose and a washer bottle are not glam but for six pence I wanted to see it worked before I bought ali tank and hose etc. Well it has worked a treat no problems fitting took an hour and no more leaks from pressurisation, hope this helps.....

Edited by wadsapple on Thursday 5th September 20:14

[pridaux]

Thanks will look at moving mine at some point and a nice alloy catch tank
A

[geertvanhout]

haven't followed this lead entirely, but it was brought to my attention. still have an original breather/oil catch for the kent cross flow if anyone is interested. picture should be attached. cheers, geert

[LLantrisant]

still for sale?

[GadgeS3C]

wadsapple said:

Hi Andrew

Not sure if this is needed now but I did the plumbing for my vent system on my vixen today,Ok garden hose and a washer bottle are not glam but for six pence I wanted to see it worked before I bought ali tank and hose etc. Well it has worked a treat no problems fitting took an hour and no more leaks from pressurisation, hope this helps.....

Edited by wadsapple on Thursday 5th September 20:14

Late to the party I know but love how you've coordinated the hosepipe to the body colour

[geertvanhout]

hi. is it one of these you're after?

[geertvanhout]

still for sale.....

[geertvanhout]

hi adrian. website had been hacked but is repaired now. info@ address still a mess. please pm me through this channel, as antoher mailaddress is attached to it.

[geertvanhout]

interested parties for the kent breather box can pm me through this channel, as i don't attend this forum on a regular basis and not all messages are forwarded to my emailaddress it seems. thanks, geert van hout, netherlands.

[LLantrisant]

found one now...but thanks for your offer.

[octanetorque]

Sorry to hijack, slightly...

My rocker cover has a welded in breather (outlet?) which looks like it used to reach to the PCV, but now just vents to air, and also a filler cap which seems to breathe i.e. oil flicks out a little breather hole under pressure.

I'll be fitting a rudemantay catch tank (beer can) for the welded breather as oil to the engine block is pretty smelly, but would it also be worth fitting a non-breather oil filler cap too, or should I fit a breather cap and again venting to catch tank?

PCV valve seems to pipe to a manifold below the air filter.

Thanks,
J

[timelord]

The more breathers the better on a crossflow so yes to the breather type cap linked to your beer can tank, are you running twin side-draught carbs or a single twin-choke? It sounds like the latter as the standard set-up the pcv valve does connect into the inlet manifold, it upsets the carb balancing if you try connecting this hose on a twin side- draught manifold. Geoff