{"id":285,"date":"2014-09-21T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T06:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T06:17:03","slug":"modified-breather-vacuum-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/09\/21\/modified-breather-vacuum-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"Modified Breather Vacuum Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vansairforce.net\">Van&#8217;s Air Force<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vansairforce.com\/community\/showthread.php?t=92980\">carbon build up in the breather tube<\/a>. \u00a0I pulled the tube off and there was some build up (maybe 10% of the cross-sectional area of the tube). \u00a0Most could be easily removed with a pick, but I used a wire brush to get the inside of the tube totally clean. \u00a0Here are all of the carbon bits that came out of the tube.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140921\/IMG_0041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0041.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If this tube were to totally close off due to carbon buildup, it could pressurize the crankcase and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vansairforce.com\/community\/showthread.php?t=118988\">blow out the front oil seal.<\/a>\u00a0 To prevent this, I put a T in the breather line and ran that to a second vacuum valve positioned above the exhaust pipe to burn off any oil that might drip out.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20140921\/IMG_0045.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0045.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a thread on Van&#8217;s Air Force about carbon build up in the breather tube. \u00a0I pulled the tube off and there was some build up (maybe 10% of the cross-sectional area of the tube). \u00a0Most could be easily removed with a pick, but I used a wire brush to get the inside of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/09\/21\/modified-breather-vacuum-valve\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward","category-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}