Breather tank question

[Rittmeister]

I ordered an Ebay coolant breather tank after doing a bunch of research on the subject. It showed up yesterday. It's identical to the Greddy tank in every respect but one.

Four hose barbs -

1. Lower rad hose
2. Driver's side water neck
3. Radiator overflow barb
4. Overflow tank

The problem is the one that's supposed to go to the water neck. There is a fitting included but the threaded part is far too large in diameter to go where the bleeder screw normally goes, as I have always seen these installed.

So the question is this: is the line from the breather tank to the water neck strictly necessary, or will eliminating it essentially defeat the whole purpose of the breather tank?

Another - where can I get the fitting? Does Greddy sell it, or can I get it from Earl's or Aeroquip or something?

[KiDyNomiTe]

go to the hardware store and buy one. You don't need it (thats why a plug comes with it), but it helps. Or you can just drill and tap a hole in your waterneck, thats what I did.

[Rittmeister]

I doubt my local hardware would carry a metric-to-hose nipple fitting. At this point I don't know what size it is anyway, I haven't drained the coolant and taken it apart yet; I'm trying to get everything ready so I can do it all at once.

Do you have pictures of your drilled/tapped neck? I suppose that'd be an option though I'm not too keen on doing it that way.

[chmercer]

you can just get a 1/4" npt tap

[Rittmeister]

Anybody else know at least the thread pitch of the bleeder screw? I'd like to avoid tapping the water neck if I can.

[chmercer]

i dunno check the bleeder screw

shit like this is just retarded people

cmon

[Rittmeister]

As always, your input is most insightful.

[seekanddestroy]

As always, your input is most insightful.


take your bleeder screw out

go to hardware store

check thread sizeXpitch

fucking christ

[McRussellPants]

its like 2mm diameter

you'll need to tap it out if you don't have the greddy barb.

and even then greddy barb breaks donk easy, so just tap it out.

afk to run some math on building a rocket.

[!Zar!]

Yeah, the greddy kit comes with two. One of each size. That shit breaks easy. You won't find another one. Even the guys at greddy didn't know wtf I should do. So just hit up a shop and drill that shit. Then slap a sae fitting on there.


I still lawl at people who get into the hobby of modding cars, yet bitch when they have to do the modding.

[WILDACEX187]

Yeah, the greddy kit comes with two. One of each size. That shit breaks easy. You won't find another one. Even the guys at greddy didn't know wtf I should do. So just hit up a shop and drill that shit. Then slap a sae fitting on there.


I still lawl at people who get into the hobby of modding cars, yet bitch when they have to do the modding.

how did u break it? by installing it or just doing random work?

[!Zar!]

By tightening it down and you could feel the metal starting to twist.

No, I wasn't over torquing it. It was just a cheap part.

[seekanddestroy]

Yeah, greddy does make cheap shit.

LOL at you guys buying breather tanks/expansion tanks. Learn to fucking bleed your coolant system yourself and you wont need a $130 ricer piece of shit.

if you really feel the need to have one, to eliminate all air bubbles all the time, then there are much better ways of doing it.

[!Zar!]

$130 ricer pos? For that price, it better have a pussy attached.

Learn what a swirlpot does. It's not just for lazy asses.

[chmercer]

mine was 45

i also broke the greddy barb

its made of pot metal

[seekanddestroy]

$130 ricer pos? For that price, it better have a pussy attached.

Learn what a swirlpot does. It's not just for lazy asses.


I am fully aware of what it does, and not because I read the greddy instruction manual. You can do the same thing in a much more simple way if you aren't a complete moron.

[Rittmeister]

Once again, I'm sorry I had the temerity to ask. I'm not afraid or incompetent to modify my car, I already know how to bleed the cooling system, and if some of you actually knew what was done to my car you might have less to say, but I doubt it, since most folks here seem to think that any 240 driver should magically know everything there is to know about life and the universe.

For those telling me to go to the hardware store: you must have the world's most bitchinest JDM hardware stores in your area, to carry an m5 or m6-to- 1/4" hose barb fitting. I'm seriously impressed. Here in the Midwest no one has heard of the metric system, let alone carrying an obscure part like that. I keep forgetting that you guys in California already have access to all things JDM-tyte.

The ONLY useful information here was the knowledge that the Greddy nipple isn't that great anyway, although I had to get you guys fighting to get it since no one saw fit to say so concerning the original question.

As always, thank you all for your valuable input, I appreciate it. Mods, you can lock or delete this thread, since it's become nothing but a bitch-fest.

[Irukandji]

I am fully aware of what it does, and not because I read the greddy instruction manual. You can do the same thing in a much more simple way if you aren't a complete moron.

wait... WHO ARE YOU

[!Zar!]

Rittmeister: Umm. You missed the point when it was said to drill the hole out and tap it so you can fit an SAE fitting on there. ALL stores sell drill bits and SAE taps.

Stop playing the pitty party or whatever.

[Johny5]

no joke man, go wipe your vagina or something jesus christ. reading is common knowledge, if you built something that you think would "impress" people then i figured you'd have the intelligence to figure out tapping and using a new size thread on the barbed piece. not only do you sound like a whiney bitch, but are you aware you can do this without tapping the upper water neck? its not something i knew all along but some friends of mine that have done this mod say that you can do it like this and it does in fact bleed the system, just slower. but you already knew that right?

[Rittmeister]

Zar, thanks, I didn't miss the point. I fully understood the idea of tapping the neck with a 1/8 NPT thread, to accommodate the fitting that DID come with the tank. Maybe I was unclear myself. I prefer for some mods to my car to be reversible, and I suppose that if I tapped it I could just plug it in the future but I was trying to avoid the tapping for that reason.

This isn't a pity party. This is a request for information I didn't find through several hours of searching here, Freshalloy, and the wonders of Google.

Johny5, thanks for the input; it was mentioned that the system would work without the bleeder line, and since I do have good reading comprehension I did understand it. I'd like for the system to work at its highest efficiency, which means trying to make the bleeder line work if I can. On a more personal note, fuck you and the horse you rode in on. I've been called worse things by better people.

[!Zar!]

I fucked a horse once.

My ex wife in fact. Her name was Ol`Bessy and boy was she a woman.

I still remember her to this day.

[chmercer]

I prefer for some mods to my car to be reversible, and I suppose that if I tapped it I could just plug it in the future but I was trying to avoid the tapping for that reason.

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[HaLo]

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