Ok, so anyone that was on my boat this past summer knows the oil out of the breather issues I was having, it wasn't a lot of oil, but mixed with a little water, it was a LOT of mess. At the Avi trip I just put some wrist/sweat bands on them and enjoyed the weekend. Things are calming down around here so today I dove in to see what I could do.

I took the rocker cover off and removed the breather, then I put it back on and saw the issue instantly, a set  rockers & pushrods on each side was directly beneath the breather. Not good.

I pulled it back off and began to think of something to fix it.


I called a few places in town, seems everyone had them in stock, $14.95 a pair. F@%k that, I have way more time than money right now so I went up to my buddy's hotrod shop. We found a test strip of some louvers he had done for a guy's hood. Score! I headed back home and began fiddle focking around with my score.


This is the test strip and the first 2 prototypes



Here's the finished product from the inside of the rocker cover


Here's a shot showing the amount of vent space I still have



Bulit the first one in 2 hours, the second one in 10 minutes 

I'll know next week if this solved the problem or not. It's not a big deal, my boat has killer oil pressure and it flings it like mad in the rocker cover, it's got to go somewhere, it found my vent and oiled my boat down. I'll keep you posted on how it works...

Always cool to take shit into your own hands  Can't wait to se if it works

No foam in them Barry, I'm going to run them dry first and if they still leak I'll check further into it. Thanks for the heads up. 

I have some stainless steel wool, well I guess it's more like brillo than wool. Thank you CDCR kitchen supply. 

lets see..... little strands of stainless steel brillo pad in my engine are you guys focking kidding me

souds like a wreck waiting to happen but wtf do i know

why not throw some medal shavings down the carb while your at it

Trust me Ralph, I had a very fine screen at the bottom of the breather to keep the metal OUT of my engine. I may be dumb, but I ain't ingnant.

Trust me Ralph, I had a very fine screen at the bottom of the breather to keep the metal OUT of my engine. I may be dumb, but I ain't ingnant.

never said you were either
i once new a guy who built top fuel engines (rip) he would not even allow steel wool in his shop because the strands are so fine and can get into all kinds of shit.

still a bad idea imo

Just to clarify, it wasn't s/s wool, I know better, that shit gets in more places than dirt could even think of.
I used s/s pot scrubbers, like institutional kitchens use (like the kitchen where I used to work  )

Here's a pic of what I'm talkin' bout

sorry skip i just don't like it
hope it works for you

Just to set the record straight, there are no metal particles coming off a Brillo pad...pretty much indestructable..They are made of continuous spirals of stainless and they don't shed at all...Wool would be just silly, Skip just mis spoke...Scotch Brite = really bad idea, they shed tons of abrasives......


We never used an actual oil filter after break in, we used an Oberg sandwitch filter and all I have ever seen in the screen is a human hair. That is with using the Brillo pads and a chunk of milk screen (brass) in the breathers.

GT