small air filter on the engine???

[chima]

hi everyboday ...
yesterday when i was exploring the engine bay of my chimaera,
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i noticed this small filter which was almost falling down ...when i touched it i saw that it was holding on there by luck ... then i opened the plastic cover and saw that the sponge inside was covered with grease and almost not functioning ...i replaced it with another piece of a sponge !!(i know its stupid to do it) and inserted it inside back to its place ?!!
can you tell me what is this and how should it be replaced and attached back??????!!!! (kind of glue ? filter???)
thanks

[wolosp]

I've been searching the threads on this as I recall someone saying once that they had noticed water dripping onto it from the grille in front of the windscreen and had constructed a shield over it - N.E.Way, I think it's a breather for the rocker cover, though I may be wrong.

[incorrigible]

It is a breather for the rocker cover

Get one from your neaest dealer (Rover or TVR) if you reall want, although sponge and super glue seems fine to me

[M@H]

incorrigible said:Get one from your neaest dealer (Rover or TVR)

Ben, the man is in Turkey..

Matt.

[chima]

M@H said:

incorrigible said:Get one from your neaest dealer (Rover or TVR)

Ben, the man is in Turkey..

Matt.

so the nearest one should be yours maybe??

[shpub]

Rimmer Bros sell it and distribute world wide.
www.rimmerbros.co.uk. (I think)

Steve

[chima]

is this something special to TVRs or it exists on all rover engines?

[joospeed]

seems awful crowded on them there left hand drive air con power steering models .. everything shoved on the wrong side waaaay back in the engine bay like that. can you reposition the coil so it doesn't interfere with the breather? .. seems like it's being knocked to one side.
joolz

[RCA]

Pipercross do a nice oil breather with anodised tops i.e. red for a red car, blue for a blue car etc, I have one which I bought ages ago but have never put it on because I could not find the breather on my old car.!!! Now you have shown me this I will put it on tomorrow!!!!!

[chima]

RCA said: Pipercross do a nice oil breather with anodised tops i.e. red for a red car, blue for a blue car etc, I have one which I bought ages ago but have never put it on because I could not find the breather on my old car.!!! Now you have shown me this I will put it on tomorrow!!!!!

any idea from where i can order it from ?


>> Edited by chima on Monday 13th January 08:48

[GreenV8S]

RCA said: Pipercross do a nice oil breather with anodised tops i.e. red for a red car, blue for a blue car etc, I have one which I bought ages ago but have never put it on because I could not find the breather on my old car.!!! Now you have shown me this I will put it on tomorrow!!!!!

I think it's actually an air inlet rather than a breather. A breather would normally have an oil separator, which would be quite bulky. Most engines nowadays have a breather vented to the inlet manifold rather than fresh air, this is how TVR do it too. So most of the time, the rocker covers are under a slight vacuum. The air vent is optional but lets air in to the rocker covers - the filter would be to keep crud out of the engine.

[RCA]

Ripspeed at Halfords do them