cykaaro
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- ontario, canada
Well, many of us know the blowby problem of the 4.0 and how the air fliter gets slowly soaked in oil. Some have problably heard of the gatorade or tin can catch bottle way of getting around that.
I've been thinking for sometime of how to accomplish this, but wanted something a bit more 'stock' looking than the 'ghetto' fix. To that end, I've been searching for several months for some kinda of bottle to use. The closest I ever got was a bottle out of a newer KIA sportage, but the hose nipple was sheared off so didn't bother, but that probably would have worked ok.
Last week at the wreckers I came across an Asuna, which had the coolant overflow bottle in it. The tubing on it is far too small, but not a problem. simply cut the tubing, and with one piece connected the two nipples, and took out the one inside. Picked up a couple fittings at Partsource for under $10. Got brass elbows, so drilled a whole at either end of the top of the bottle, and screwed in the fittings. Withsome careful working, on my XJ it fit perfect in the front driverside corner perfectly, and with a couple piece of tubing I had already, re-routed it through the overflow bottle and into the air box. So far working flawlessly, and is nicely catching the oil that's coming through the breather tube. Total cost: Overflow coolant bottle $5.50 +tx two brass elbow fittings $7.12 +tx. About an hours time to make sure I got everything fitting in properly before I tightened it all up.
I've been thinking for sometime of how to accomplish this, but wanted something a bit more 'stock' looking than the 'ghetto' fix. To that end, I've been searching for several months for some kinda of bottle to use. The closest I ever got was a bottle out of a newer KIA sportage, but the hose nipple was sheared off so didn't bother, but that probably would have worked ok.
Last week at the wreckers I came across an Asuna, which had the coolant overflow bottle in it. The tubing on it is far too small, but not a problem. simply cut the tubing, and with one piece connected the two nipples, and took out the one inside. Picked up a couple fittings at Partsource for under $10. Got brass elbows, so drilled a whole at either end of the top of the bottle, and screwed in the fittings. Withsome careful working, on my XJ it fit perfect in the front driverside corner perfectly, and with a couple piece of tubing I had already, re-routed it through the overflow bottle and into the air box. So far working flawlessly, and is nicely catching the oil that's coming through the breather tube. Total cost: Overflow coolant bottle $5.50 +tx two brass elbow fittings $7.12 +tx. About an hours time to make sure I got everything fitting in properly before I tightened it all up.