missing pipe

[Ricardo_Smooth]

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=120999

in the picture with the blue TIP i can see there is another pipe coming off next to the DV. I have a std TIP on at the minute and it doesnt have that pipe! I also see that there is a pipe coming off my engine which has nithing attached to it! looking on the pictures of people with an IK its an oil breather location.

Is this correct? where does the std item fit idf this is the case and can anyone sell me one! i'm planning on putting the TIP in the picture on pretty soon.

Is it different as mine is an AQX engine?

any help appreciated

 

[PhilW]

It is the oil breather connection, and when you come to fit the TIP you'll see it all fit without a problem, its just in a slightly different position.

 

[Ricardo_Smooth]

no mate the problem is that pipe isn't present on my engine, it's missing! presumin git will throw up some kind of engine management issues ie boost leak

 

[tashacupra]

hi, as phil said it is just the crank case breather vent hose the fact that it is missing is not a majour problem and it will not throw up any codes, wot is a problem is if there is nothing in the hole in your tip you will have unfiltered air entering your engine which is not so good. the hose will have come from a connection on the rockercover and ran to your tip the function of the hose is to help prevent crank case pressurisation and to vent crank case gas/vapour back in to the inlet so it is burnt off insteat of venting it to atmospher, so you may find you have a small amount of oil vapour geting splatterd around your engine bay from the conection on your rockercover which is not a problem but will make a mess.

you best bet is to put a thread in the parts wanted section because the lads thet have fitted a catch tank will not need this hose and it's fittings so will probable be happy to get shot of it. hope that helps a bit.

 

[PhilW]

What you mean there isnt a breather pipe at all? Has it got an oil catch tank fitted?

Just make sure the crankcase breather isnt blocked off and its breathing somewhere.

Some pics of it would help us as well.

 

[Ricardo_Smooth]

here you go, as you can see in the first one its evident which one is missing! the second is just from a different angle and the third is just what my std TIP looks like which has a blanking plug in one hole and the DV in the other

 

[tashacupra]

how strange, the fact that your tip is blocked off means it was removed for a reason rather than being ''left off'' after some work ect.

anyway your options are, post in the wanted section for the originial parts you are missing, go see your local dealer and buy new (but they wiil probable want a small fortune for the bits) or fit a catch tank and the associated pipework (which is what i would do)

 

[Ricardo_Smooth]

home,made catch tanks are easy to make anyway, bit of hose and a bottle if you have room for it,
however a 'proper' catch tank won't be bought just yet due to £££ near crimbo and stuff. although they aren only about £25 on fleabay