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Title: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: RacinJacin on July 01, 2019, 07:21:09 PM

Early hemi, please share pics of your puke tank. I need to fab something  - it'd be very helpful to see whats been done.  Thanks!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: dreracecar on July 02, 2019, 09:47:56 AM

Funny Car , but the same concept

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: MikenMpls on July 02, 2019, 03:45:35 PM

My next breather tank will include a port for the transmission vent. why have a separate tank for it when one will do.

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER on July 03, 2019, 05:23:50 AM

That's pretty. But I wonder what keeps condensation from building up in the frame and eventually filling the tubes?

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: dreracecar on July 03, 2019, 08:20:41 AM

Threaded drain plugs are fitted to the tubing at the front end.

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER on July 04, 2019, 08:08:28 PM

I see. After how many runs - gas or alky - do you generally have to pop the plugs and drain? Also, do you run electrical wiring through the lower tube(s) then?

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: dreracecar on July 05, 2019, 09:04:50 AM

Just during normal car maintanence or after a blow-up. The right lower frame rail usually contains the front brake line and the fire bottle cable as those have to be shielded where they pass the clutch can/motor plate.  I some cases,by the rules, all wiring must be exposed , even with that, trouble shooting a wiring/air line issue is a lot easier without running them inside the frame. Most builds run them thru tunnels in the motorplate uprites

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER on July 05, 2019, 11:59:00 AM

Thanks for the insight. It sounds like there is either not a lot of condensation taking place or the flow rate is high enough to purge all that glop from the frame.
My [unblown] altered has the wires inside the rail tubing (except trans brake), that's why I asked.

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: dreracecar on July 05, 2019, 04:32:19 PM

You have to remember to pull everything out the tubing before you can weld repair.  I told a customer to do that except he forgot one line, "Hey, do you smell something burning"?
 Also you have to clean the vent tube real good before welding or it becomes a mess and the drain helps clear the solvent.

Title: Re: Burndown breather puke tank
Post by: RacinJacin on July 24, 2019, 09:30:23 PM

For you curious guys - here's what I ended up fabbing. Made pretty much everything even the breather because I struck out at the local swapmeets and I'm not a patient person sometimes. "AMF" is a tribute to my buddy Stan that helped me run the car from the beginnng until he passed. "Adios...."
If you look close at the tank you will see the end caps are domed.  My press and a PVC CAP was all that was neeed to make those.


Jacin