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Oil catch tank - suggestions please
andyace - 26/12/09 at 08:30 PM

Looking at

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PERFORMANCE-Oil-Catch-Tank-BMW-M3-M5-Z3-Z4-325-328-330_W0QQitemZ230413349134QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM ?hash=item35a5b4b10e

for a 2.0 Pinto, is this suitable or could you suggest something better please.

Merry xmas by the way.

tomgregory2000 - 26/12/09 at 08:32 PM

Old tin can
Cost = nought all

mr T - 26/12/09 at 08:42 PM

Looks like a decent catch tank to me its got a pipe to see how full it is and a drain plug

quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
Old tin can
Cost = nought all

Old tin cans are for tractors

[Edited on 26/12/09 by mr T]

designer - 26/12/09 at 08:43 PM

Won't be a low reserve on thet!

Why doesn't he say 1 litre capacity?

Practical alternative is a plastic washer bottle, big enough and mounts are ready made.

tomgregory2000 - 26/12/09 at 08:45 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mr T
Looks like a decent catch tank to me its got a pipe to see how full it is and a drain plug
quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
Old tin can
Cost = nought all

Old tin cans are for tractors

[Edited on 26/12/09 by mr T]


Tractor!!!!

mr T - 26/12/09 at 08:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
quote:
Originally posted by mr T
Looks like a decent catch tank to me its got a pipe to see how full it is and a drain plug
quote:
Originally posted by tomgregory2000
Old tin can
Cost = nought all

Old tin cans are for tractors

[Edited on 26/12/09 by mr T]


Tractor!!!!


You know Massy Ferguson

RK - 26/12/09 at 10:12 PM

easy as hell to make. Use an ally drink bottle, and glue a couple of plastic ends in the holes you cut out and you're done. Seriously simple and look good. Well, I think so. You can get different sizes of these things.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-qG5o934hOJCYflGBlv7iw?authkey=Gv1sRgCLfsoZrNyoKG4QE&feat=directlink

mark chandler - 26/12/09 at 10:22 PM

Stainless sugar tin for me, £3 morrisons and a £1.99 air filter off ebay.

Poked a some holes in the lid, couple of gromets to smooth the edges and pushed breather hose in one, filter in other.

If you are blowing out 1ltr of oil I would start to worry!!!

andyace - 26/12/09 at 10:38 PM

Ok, paid £34.90 (inc postage), let's hope it's nice and shiny

[Edited on 26/12/09 by andyace]

dhutch - 26/12/09 at 10:48 PM

Im using a 1l rc car fuel container.
- Looks snazy and racey enough to fit in.
- Metal sided with a hole in top to take 1" hose.

Also free!


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Otherwise i was going to use a sigg copy drinks bottle but was stuggling to find a 1l one.

andyace - 26/12/09 at 10:56 PM

I feel such a catch tank snob now !!

prawnabie - 26/12/09 at 10:59 PM

I use a 1L washer fluid container i got from halfords lol. Put the fluid in the washers, cut the top abit wider, put some "u" channel around the hole and made a natty bracket out of ally for it lol.

jeffw - 27/12/09 at 07:30 AM

Well I got the red one of these


indykid - 27/12/09 at 12:08 PM

surely all these designs are just empty cans though?

you'll have a far more effective system if you have something for the vapour to condense onto.....like a baffle and steel wool a third of the way down said bottle, with the vapour fed in below the wool and the vent above it

otherwise, you're just asking for a nasty oily filter on the top of your tank
tom

Stuart_B - 28/12/09 at 07:51 PM

my first oil catch tank was a bit of copper pipe made in to a tank, with an inlet and a filter pipe on it. it was fine and painted and easy to mount using copper pipe mounts., but my dad has ordering me some bits from cbs, and got me one for a pressie.

stuart