andyace
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 08:30 PM |
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Oil catch tank - suggestions please
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.
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 08:32 PM |
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Old tin can
Cost = nought all
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mr T
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 08:42 PM |
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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]
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designer
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 08:43 PM |
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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.
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 08:45 PM |
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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!!!!
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mr T
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 08:51 PM |
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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
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RK
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 10:12 PM |
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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
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mark chandler
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 10:22 PM |
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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!!!
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andyace
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 10:38 PM |
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Won it!
Ok, paid £34.90 (inc postage), let's hope it's nice and shiny 
[Edited on 26/12/09 by andyace]
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dhutch
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 10:48 PM |
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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.
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andyace
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 10:56 PM |
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I feel such a catch tank snob now !!
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prawnabie
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| posted on 26/12/09 at 10:59 PM |
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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.
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jeffw
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| posted on 27/12/09 at 07:30 AM |
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Well I got the red one of these
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indykid
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| posted on 27/12/09 at 12:08 PM |
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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
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Stuart_B
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| posted on 28/12/09 at 07:51 PM |
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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
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