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Re: Desmogging a 'B'

To: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Desmogging a 'B'
From: Ross MacPherson <arm@unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:17:16 -0700
At 05:13 PM 5/29/97 +0000, you wrote:

>> 
>To control crankcase ventilation, Bob at Brit-Tek recommended the 
>following to me:  take a length of appropriate-size hose, and run it 
>from the riser on the engine side cover straight down so that it 
>terminates in the airstream below the car.  Then cut off the end of 
>the hose on a slant, so the opening in the end of the hose is 
>oval-shaped, and facing towards the rear of the car.  At driving 
>speed, this will pull the gases out of the crankcase.  I knew exactly 
>what Bob was talking about, because this is the same setup we have to 
>draw off gas fumes on our T-34 aircraft at work.  Lousy ASCII art 
>follows:


This must work.  It's standard on XPAG engines as used in TC's, TD's and
(probably) 1250 cc TF's.

   ___        \______           Ross MacPherson 
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