Re: Breather?

[Allen Nugent <A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au>]

Joe,

At 09:19 13/02/98 -0800, you wrote:

>This may sound like I'm trying to be flip, but the breather is there to
>let the engine "Breathe". That is, to relieve excess crankcase pressure.

And all this time I thought it was for emergency starts. No wonder I
couldn't blow hard enough to turn the engine over!

Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney  2052  Australia