[Healeys] breather for K&N air filter

[Simon Lachlan]

I have K&N lookalikes, produced in France. I had to confront this problem
and my solution seems to work. Caveat:-one can buy these fittings, below, in
the UK and, I'm pretty sure, in the rest of Europe, BUT I don't know about
anywhere else.
Find a helpful plumbing supply shop and ask about bits.....& then:-
1) Make a hole in the backplate of the rearmost filter. Hole to allow a 22mm
pipe.
2) Take a 22mm compression joint of the type that one would use, for
example, to put a 22mm supply into a cold water tank.
3) Using the joint, above, put a, say, 2 inch length of 22mm copper pipe
into the back of the filter with as little as possible on the inside. (I
ground my pipe and joint down on the inside with a grinder).
4) The section of pipe that sticks out of the filter can be inserted into
the regular rubber pipe coming over from the T on top of the engine and then
tightened up with a Jubilee type clip.
Attached shows the visible part of the joint which, in my opinion, is
acceptable although it won't win any prizes.
(For interest's sake: The steel fuel pipe feeds between the carbs looked
very smart - I thought - but it was nbg and had to go).
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Bob Haskell
Sent: 14 March 2010 20:14
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] breather for K&N air filter

Folks,

For those that have fitted K&N conical air filters to the HS-4 carbs 
(tri-carb), what did you do with the breather hose?  I'd like to fit it 
to the backing plate of the rear filter, but not sure there's the room 
to install a 5/8" fitting between the carb dashpot and the rubber lip of 
the filter.

Cheers,

Bob
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