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1. Breather? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:55:55 +0100; Why do some rocker covers have a breather pipe and some not? What's the purpose of a breather? This is not a test, I just don't know. Thanks for your "sciontific" help, Adam Turner '74 TR6; /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00856.html (6,705 bytes)
2. Re: Breather? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 09:47:35 -0800 (PST); On the TR2-4 4cyl engines, the early blocks had a breather pipe in them... so there's no pipe in the rocker cover. It's just a tube, with a few bends in it to stop anything fluid getting out, that is; /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00865.html (7,819 bytes)
3. Re: Breather? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 09:19:00 -0800; 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. In the old days, there were "blow-by pipes that relie; /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00872.html (8,032 bytes)
4. Re: Breather? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 9:19 -0800; Why do some rocker covers have a breather pipe and some not? What's the purpose of a breather? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To let the engine breath. (chuckle) Sorry, I just couldn't resist. Adam, my b; /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00873.html (7,623 bytes)
5. Re: Breather? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 09:18:11 -0800; ** Adam, ALL piston engines have a breather or crankcase vent of some kind. The combustion process causes blow by, no matter how good your piston rings are, some gasses get by, as well as the recipro; /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00874.html (7,890 bytes)
6. Re: Breather? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:49:17 EST; The later TR4's had a vent tube in the top of the valve cover. This was connected by a rubber tube to a metal "y" fitting. The two sides of the "y" were connected by rubber tubes to the center of the; /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg00904.html (7,609 bytes)
7. Re: Breather? (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:40:54 +1100 (EST); 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; /html/triumphs/1998-02/msg01002.html (6,791 bytes)

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