toolsinbox

Can some of you post some pics of your puke tanks and the plumbing? My wife complained about the smell in the boat so I need to look at doing something other than throwing her overboard!

You can send me pics.
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picklenjim

Puke tank has a breather just like your valve covers do. Puke tank just catchs oil that might blow out your breathers during a hard run. How are the breathers set up on it now?

toolsinbox

They each have a 3 inch tall vent near the back of the v cover.

I thought a puke tank would help with the smell?

picklenjim

Might try setting it up with hoses running from the valve covers to the flame arrester so it sucks the fumes back into the carb and burns them off. You would have to mount a pair of these on your flame arrester.
http://www.cpperformance.com/p-14122...gle-mount.aspx

picklenjim

I just remembered we went through this back in August.
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...breathing.html

toolsinbox

yes we did . I was confused with the puke tank with the flame arrester draw. Ok I have got it now. Are there any drawbacks to venting into the carb?

RunninHotRacing163.1

Do a compression test on the motor ,may need some rings buddy

toolsinbox

ok I re read the August post. Man my memory is getting bad. grrrrrr. I think I would like to go right into the intake. i have a brock performer intake with a few holes plugged. What do I need to make this happen. Please give me a parts list and which hole is best to use?

Currently all I have going through the intake is the distributer, carb, and the thermostat housing.

I have a brand new 454

picklenjim

I'm not so sure you can do that. It may make the engine not idle or run right. You would be putting air in to the intake after the carb so it would be like a big vacumm leak. Also would alter the air/fuel ratio your carb is making. That's why they let the vacumm draw it in to the flame arrester before the carb. Notice the pic Griff posted in your August thread.

toolsinbox

Ya I was thinking of that. It did occure to me that it would read like a vac leak. Ok in the flame arrester it goes then. I think I need a flame arrester that is set up already as mine is old and crappy. I will post in the swap shop.

Thanks for all your help pickle and others.

By the way; do I need to use fuel grade hoses for this venting? What do i use?