Oil catch tank

[vernon.taylor]

Salut

Looks like a nice little unit:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/small-oil-cat ... 2700wt_949

Anyone recommend a different unit?

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Vernon

[RichC]

decided to go simple....I replaced the 10cm rubber hose from head to inlet manifold with a piece about a metre long which I looped under the carburettors. this means that the gunk has plenty of time to condense before it reaches the manifold. I have an idea that eventually I'll need to raise the loop to let the crap run back into the sump & will probably do this before next oil change . I've been running this setup for about 1000 miles so far and there is just enough crap in the hoises for an audible bubbling noise as gasses pass through it

[bcmc33]

Salut

Looks like a nice little unit:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/small-oil-cat ... 2700wt_949

Anyone recommend a different unit?

Save ?25 and do it my way:

It was in place all last summer with the plastic jar sitting out of the way at the bottom corner of the radiator.
In a previous lifetime I used small metal containers filled with course wire wool. I had thought to do this with the plastic jar but, over my usual 500 miles summer travel there was only about three drops of residual oil, so concluded it was not worth while trying to be technically correct by using wire wool. However, I shall keep my eye on it again this year.

[elan_fan]

Hi Vernon, how about:

http://www.caterhamparts.co.uk/product. ... roduct=268

all the bits you need and light weight plus it doesn't look too out of place

regards
Mark

[nebogipfel]

Hi Vernon, how about:

http://www.caterhamparts.co.uk/product. ... roduct=268

all the bits you need and light weight plus it doesn't look too out of place

regards
Mark

Basically just a washer bottle

[elan_fan]

Basically just a washer bottle

Of course it's not *just* a washer bottle it's got no pump

It's been lightened, did you not realise????

[Henry VIIII]

If you put a rubber bung in the drain hole of the fibreglass under the cluch/brake masters and routed the rubber pipe to there, you would have an even lighter catch 'tank', which you could occasionally take the bung out of & drain to a tray.

But would an open top be dangerous as it might LIGHT UP in a different way

[elansprint71]

Forgive me but which oil are we trying to catch?

[Henry VIIII]

Forgive me but which oil are we trying to catch?

Oil vapour from the vent at the top rear of the head.

[elansprint71]

Forgive me but which oil are we trying to catch?

Oil vapour from the vent at the top rear of the head.

Much obliged. I use the original Lotus (and NASA) solution, i.e. vent to atmos.
Shirley this is one of the least-productive sources of escaping oil on an Elan? I've seen more oil on an Italian's comb.
What does one do with it when one "catches" it, anyway?

[Coupe]

My ?4.99 cyclist drinking bottle version of a oil catch tank (replacing earlier version which was a plastic milk carton).

[Dag-Henning]

- TT sells a taylormade tank that drops into the space in the engine bay behind the inner wheelarch......very neat, no drilling and fixing etc. ......Not for free though, but I guess there are no copyrights attached....
Dag

[vernon.taylor]

Salut les gars

Nice, cheap, but not so pretty solutions.

It appears that the eBay unit I linked is just a compressed air/pneumatic filter! And when you call it that you can get them for less than a tenner.

I saw some Mustang boys doing just that. One appeared to have stuck a bit of wire-wool scouring pad into the container as a baffle. Might just do that myself.

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Vernon

[vernon.taylor]

Salut

My homemade oil catch can now has a few hundred kliks and seems to be doing the job, i.e. there's a small amount of gunk in the bottom:

As mentioned in the thread it's a compressed air water filter from eBay. The hosetails are from a company called Tmex - they have all sizes in nylon and brass - good address. So nylon tube from a right angle head grommet to the filter and then reinforced nylon tube back to the carburettor air box.

IMPORTANT: if you try this at home REMOVE THE FILTER ELEMENT. I didn't, and once it was clogged with oil the cam cover washers started to weep oil. Also think about the location - mine is maybe neat but it's a little awkward to unscrew the clear plastic recepticle.

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Vernon

[gordont]

very neat Vernon.

questions..
Where does the other eand of the hose go?
Do you have a link to the site you bought the bits on?