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Different years had different arrangements. My '71 engine has a breather box on top to the right side of the compartment that collects vapors and feeds the condensed stuff back down through a tube in back of the fan housing to the dipstick connector at the right rear of the crankcase. There is a short length of rubber hose that connects them. I also have an engine out of a later one, '72 or '73. The later one also has connectors from the heads to the air cleaner and from the breather box to intake air distributor in addition to the tube in back of the fan. The plastic cover arrangments are a bit different from year to year, too, on the '71 there's one plastic plug that supposed to snap into the breather box. When I first got it, that cover would jump around like the weight on a pressure cooker and would fly completely off if out on the highway with oil going everywhere. Found a new one and got that fixed. The later one has two smaller plastic plugs and I've had no trouble with those. Chances are, though, you've got a lot of blowby and it's blowing the oil right up the dipstick tube at speed. A compression and bleeddown test would find out for you right quick. On Fri, 7 May 1999 01:2 00, you wrote: >Where is a crankcase breather tube at? When I take mine up to 75-100Mph >(Yeah i had my squareback upto 105MPH!) it blows oil out of the oil thing >where you put the oil in. Especially when you cruise around 100 it does >it bad! Smoke everywhere leaking thru the oil input thing (i cant think >right now) and runs oil down on my exhaust. > >I went to see how fast it would go the other day because my 73 registers >110 Mph and it did 105 but i had to get off of that exit ramp so I had to >hit the brakes! > >But this has been a ongoing problem with this engine. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subjbscribe