I have the 3hp Briggs 4 stroke and am going to use the breather with the rubber 45 degree angle bend rubber hose short piece that goes to it.
The problem is that it pulls out very easily. It is sort of a rubber grommet like strain relief that is used on electrical feed through to a chassis. It is the original Briggs part and to get it to fit a slightly newer air filter where it sends the oil breather fumes back to be re-burned, I had to adapt it to a slightly larger diameter hose. The hose is a bit stiff and the slight bend it makes to connect breather to air filter has it prying the fitting out of the breather.
I figure gluing it in place, but to connect rubber to the metal breather hole fitting that also gets hot and has oil fumes, what glue can take the heat and the oil. I am thinking high temp red RTV and gob it on so it holds. The other thing I was thinking was glue that does not stretch like RTV, but don't know if high temp and oil fumes would harm something like Seal All. It is OK for gasoline, but temperature? Also thought of some kind of two part epoxy, but again both high temp and oil may break it down.
Any ideas, short of maybe just getting some metal tube and soldering it to the metal. Or actually not solder it too may be just not high temp enough, but silver solder a metal tube to the breather hole and then the hose just fits right on. I only have a MIG and a mapp gas oxygen flame small torch. The MIG low setting would melt through the thin metal though. I also have the propane torch with air, but probably not hot enough flame.
Ideas?
MT
The problem is that it pulls out very easily. It is sort of a rubber grommet like strain relief that is used on electrical feed through to a chassis. It is the original Briggs part and to get it to fit a slightly newer air filter where it sends the oil breather fumes back to be re-burned, I had to adapt it to a slightly larger diameter hose. The hose is a bit stiff and the slight bend it makes to connect breather to air filter has it prying the fitting out of the breather.
I figure gluing it in place, but to connect rubber to the metal breather hole fitting that also gets hot and has oil fumes, what glue can take the heat and the oil. I am thinking high temp red RTV and gob it on so it holds. The other thing I was thinking was glue that does not stretch like RTV, but don't know if high temp and oil fumes would harm something like Seal All. It is OK for gasoline, but temperature? Also thought of some kind of two part epoxy, but again both high temp and oil may break it down.
Any ideas, short of maybe just getting some metal tube and soldering it to the metal. Or actually not solder it too may be just not high temp enough, but silver solder a metal tube to the breather hole and then the hose just fits right on. I only have a MIG and a mapp gas oxygen flame small torch. The MIG low setting would melt through the thin metal though. I also have the propane torch with air, but probably not hot enough flame.
Ideas?
MT
