another breather question

[muddythelandy]

while my back body is off and I'm running new fuel and brake line I thought I'd put in extended breathers.

Is it ok to have the axle and box breathers run to a central manifold and then exit the vehicle at the snorkle through a single pipe? Would the single pipe need to be a larger diameter than the pipes from the mechanicals, or could I just use the same diameter?

If I ran the four pipes to a manifold and used the same pipe diameter to the outside air - if all the mechanicals suddenly needed to breathe significantly say when entering cold water - would a single pipe handle it?

Or should I just run seperate pipes each terminating at the snorkle?

Where do you folks exit your pipes thru the bodywork?

Thankiny'all

 

[Sirus]

See thats being clever that is an not using too much pipe.....Cant see why not

Thats whats in these kits

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[Griffdowg]

i know lots of people who use manifolds. they are on ebay but are expensive. if you look at my thread created ages ago, vop suggested a hydraulic place in tewksbury. they had manifolds for cheap. they are a good idea in that they use less pipe, clean lines, less to go wrong.

i dont think you will have a problem with the diameter on exit.

most folk mount the manifold on the bulkhead and run the 1 pipe up the snork. pipes enter via the chassis rails and engine bay.

G

 

[The Mad Hat Man]

on the unit that Sirus mentioned, the input pipes are 6mm, the output pipe is 8mm.

 

[GRUNT]

I've used 1/4" bore pipe for all four breathers and taken them to the bulkhead on the drivers side. I'll probly make a manifold out of copper an run a 10mm copper tube through the wing an up the snorkle.

 

[Pikey]

Here grunt have you seen this and only £5 first4fish.co.uk - all your fish requirements at a click of a button. or Plumb centre do a 4 into one pushfit manifold.

 

[GRUNT]

5 quid! I'll mek one fer nowt and be on pay while I do it, unless you can nick me one.

 

[Griffdowg]

i used to use one of them on my 5ft aquarium the joy of the taps was you could agitate seperate regions of the tank when you wanted.

G

 

[Pikey]

5 quid! I'll mek one fer nowt and be on pay while I do it, unless you can nick me one.

Well in that case aahh'll av one anorl

 

[slob]

i used to use one of them on my 5ft aquarium the joy of the taps was you could agitate seperate regions of the tank when you wanted.

G

you could just get one big picture of paulb and agitate the whole tank in one go, or lots of little piccies of him and do seperate bits as yer please