Type-3 breather disassembly?

Max Welton · **Joined:** Mon Jun 03, 2002 2:01 am **Posts:** 1653

I am blasting and painting all the tin going onto my engine. I'd really like to do that with the breather too, but I can't figure out how to get it apart. It looks like the cap has to come off...

Help!

Max

Bigvwhead · **Joined:** Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:19 pm **Posts:** 18

Hi Max

yes the plastic cap comes off (be carefull not to breat it!!)
then you will find a spanner nut that holds the two peices together, just unscrew off and thereyou have it

they make a special socket for the nut but I have used just a flat 3/16"
steel plate cut to the correct witdh and a creasent wrench :shock:

There are gaskets in there to prevent leakage that you will have to replace.

Bigvwhead

Chris V · **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:08 pm

Plumber's internal pipe wrench...

Max Welton · **Joined:** Mon Jun 03, 2002 2:01 am **Posts:** 1653

Thanks!

Max

sideshow · **Posted:** Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:37 pm

I was under the impression that once one removes that plastic cap, it looses it spring and will not reattach back to where it was.
As in removing it for service renders it unusable?

Max Welton · **Joined:** Mon Jun 03, 2002 2:01 am **Posts:** 1653

Looks reusable to me.

Max

sideshow · **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:44 am

Max Welton wrote:

Looks reusable to me.

Yeah, but does it have any spring left? It might be just like a pop rivet, one squeeze and it is all over.

Rings of RTV and self tapping screws are what I observe on that breather with my enthusiast friends. My self I have only taken one early style apart and noticed that no way was it going back together without divine intervention.

Max Welton · **Joined:** Mon Jun 03, 2002 2:01 am **Posts:** 1653

OK, is there a trick to getting that flange out? I can get on it with needle-nose pliers but it ain't moving.

Max

Max Welton · **Joined:** Mon Jun 03, 2002 2:01 am **Posts:** 1653

Well, I gave the breather a night head-down in a can of carburetor cleaner. It was much more cooperative after that.

Anyway, it turned out pretty good. And the cap is definitely reusable.

Max

stealth67vw · **Joined:** Thu Feb 14, 2002 3:01 am **Posts:** 517

sideshow wrote:

Max Welton wrote:

Looks reusable to me.

Yeah, but does it have any spring left? It might be just like a pop rivet, one squeeze and it is all over.

Rings of RTV and self tapping screws are what I observe on that breather with my enthusiast friends. My self I have only taken one early style apart and noticed that no way was it going back together without divine intervention.

Derek is full of it......... he doesn't have any friends. :lol:

notched · **Joined:** Thu Sep 06, 2001 2:01 am **Posts:** 174

And if he does, they're not enthusiastic about it... :lol:

blitzvw · **Joined:** Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:08 am **Posts:** 208

Anyone ever thought of using a WBX breather assembly? It might need to be cut down a bit, but looks cooler and has the added benefit of not having that stupid plastic piece on the top... I've heard horror stories of type 3 engines losing that plastic cap on the top of the breather and losing oil...

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