Breather unit vs Breather Bolts
If you run your breather hoses and filter uphill from your breather bolts you will never have to wipe another drop of oil from that source.
All the breather bolts you guys are posting will slober oil as soon as the filter element saturates.
The only problem with the system I am using is you only have about 1/4 inch to spare between the filter/carb/tank so you have to cut the hose exactly the right length or let it rub.
Note: Wrap the steel braid hose with one snug wrap of narrow masking tape, mark where you are going to cut on the tape and use a die grinder and 1/16" cutoff wheel to cut part way through as you work your way around the hose and leave the masking tape on the hose to keep it from fraying. Leave the hose clamps out of the fittings, much easier to get fittings on and they will never come off or leak once you get the system installed. Hope this helps.
PS Don't forget to clean the cutoff crud out of the hose before install.
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All the breather bolts you guys are posting will slober oil as soon as the filter element saturates.
The only problem with the system I am using is you only have about 1/4 inch to spare between the filter/carb/tank so you have to cut the hose exactly the right length or let it rub.
Note: Wrap the steel braid hose with one snug wrap of narrow masking tape, mark where you are going to cut on the tape and use a die grinder and 1/16" cutoff wheel to cut part way through as you work your way around the hose and leave the masking tape on the hose to keep it from fraying. Leave the hose clamps out of the fittings, much easier to get fittings on and they will never come off or leak once you get the system installed. Hope this helps.
PS Don't forget to clean the cutoff crud out of the hose before install.
Attachment 231576
With respect, your comment about the Outlaw breather bolts is inaccurate.
I have thousands of miles on my sporty with the Outlaw Breathers, many of them absolutely hammering it at sustained high RPM, both in the heat and cold. Never had one drop of oil from them.
They don't drip, they are not wet to touch, they do not splatter/slobber oil down the side of the bike. After many hundreds of hard, high RPM miles there is a very light film on the back of the A/C back plate, but not enough to ever drip.
I run my oil level 3/4 the way ABOVE the add oil mark on the dipstick when cold.
The hot oily air hits the first fine mesh screen and breaks up the oil, then it hits the foam filter. The air passes thru and most of the oil gets absorbed by the filter, then drops down to the little reservoir and goes back into the head. The oil that makes it thru the filter hits the outer fine mesh and is broken up into a very fine mist.
The filter on the Outlaw breathers does NOT hold oil, so it cannot build up to "saturation".
Everytime you put the bike on it's kickstand gravity will drop the oil out of the filter & reservoir and back into the engine.
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We are dealing with a very small problem with many variables, therefore individual results and observations may vary.
Most solutions are better than factory but even that does not seem to be a large negative.
We are dealing with a very small problem with many variables, therefore individual results and observations may vary.
Most solutions are better than factory but even that does not seem to be a large negative.
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