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GS1100E- For guys using pods... valve cover breather filter ideas?

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dweller

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Just wondering what everyone has used for a valve cover breather filter when they switch to pods. The hose from the valve cover to the stock airbox is obviously no longer an option. I was thinking a small K&N style breather filter. What have others used?
 
I?m planning on running a vent hose along the frame all the way back and vent it towards the ground.
 
How environmentally responsible do you feel? :-k

If you use a small breather filter, it will eventually saturate and not pass much air through it. The system requires moving air to function properly. The blowby in the crankcase will produce some fumes, but they really need to be drawn away, which is why the breather hose originally went to the airbox.

If you use a longer hose, as winmag suggests, and run it down just below the swingarm pivot, you can cut it at an angle to there will be a bit of suction while going down the road. Not very environmentally friendly, but very effective.

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winmag4582001 said:
I?m planning on running a vent hose along the frame all the way back and vent it towards the ground.
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I did that, on the '79 bike when it was getting a bit heavy on the breathing. It was amusing seeing the plume of water vapour and fumes from the tube at the back of the swingarm. Some wag asked if it was steam powered.
 
I took a slightly different approach with my Kat. I liked the idea I'd seen of a catch tank replacing the sprocket cover, but all the ones I could find looked like an afterthought to me and just didn't seem neat and tidy.

I ended up making one out of the stock sprocket cover which I think ended up as neat and tidy as possible. I just route the breather hose down the left frame rail and have a breather filter on it also. There's a tapped hole in the bottom as well for a drain. This is the best pic I could find but before I'd finished so the breather hose isn't in place (along with a few other missing items).

Untitled by starpoint73, on Flickr
 
pete said:
I took a slightly different approach with my Kat. I liked the idea I'd seen of a catch tank replacing the sprocket cover, but all the ones I could find looked like an afterthought to me and just didn't seem neat and tidy.

I ended up making one out of the stock sprocket cover which I think ended up as neat and tidy as possible. I just route the breather hose down the left frame rail and have a breather filter on it also. There's a tapped hole in the bottom as well for a drain. This is the best pic I could find but before I'd finished so the breather hose isn't in place (along with a few other missing items).

Untitled by starpoint73, on Flickr
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This is a good idea. Or you could just have put a barb fitting on that cover over the sprocket and had an automatic chain oiler.

I ran a hose with a K&N style filter out to the swing arm area.
 
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