Pblesh85
08-09-2008, 05:56 PM
Okay, Im pretty much done with my 5-speed swap. Part of my swap was installing a new aluminum radiator (Powered by MAX), and a new breather tank (Also powered by MAX).
Since for the breather tank setup you need to tap the lower radiator hose and upper water neck I encountered an issue or two. The first issue was the lower radiator hose. I solved that easily enough with a buddy club radiator hose adapter (34 mm just in case someone needs to know the size). The next was tapping the upper water neck. I recently bought a s14 water neck but it did not come with any of the hardware used on the actual s14. So I made due as best I could. Since I wasn't installing my breather tank at the same time I installed the water neck I had to block off the lower port on the water neck itself, I ended up using an oil drain plug. While I was taking out my auto transmission I got the idea to use a banjo bolt in part of the line in order to tap the water neck.
I took the banjo bolt used for the cooling line for that automatic transmission and cut it off about 3 or 4 inches after the banjo part with a pipe cutter for a nice clean cut. I then placed the banjo bolt on the s14 water neck with a little bit of coolant line running off so I could slip the line from the breather tank on it. It seemingly looked and worked fine until I started filling it up with coolant. Apparently the banjo bolt is not meant to seal coolant very well. (It leaks like a SIV):aw:
So for the time being I put back in the drain plug that I initially used and it stopped off one of the breather tank ports. I am going to try to use some rubber washers and hope it will solve my problem.
Does anyone know of a better way I could tap the water neck. Using the holes already provided by the manufacturer (I.E the ones already drilled in it)? How do most people tap the water neck (s14 water neck) for coolant line? What do you use? Where can I get it? Does anyone happen to have it?
Pics:
Pblesh85/breather tank - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m205/Pblesh85/breather%20tank/)
Thank you for looking and any input is appreciated.
Since for the breather tank setup you need to tap the lower radiator hose and upper water neck I encountered an issue or two. The first issue was the lower radiator hose. I solved that easily enough with a buddy club radiator hose adapter (34 mm just in case someone needs to know the size). The next was tapping the upper water neck. I recently bought a s14 water neck but it did not come with any of the hardware used on the actual s14. So I made due as best I could. Since I wasn't installing my breather tank at the same time I installed the water neck I had to block off the lower port on the water neck itself, I ended up using an oil drain plug. While I was taking out my auto transmission I got the idea to use a banjo bolt in part of the line in order to tap the water neck.
I took the banjo bolt used for the cooling line for that automatic transmission and cut it off about 3 or 4 inches after the banjo part with a pipe cutter for a nice clean cut. I then placed the banjo bolt on the s14 water neck with a little bit of coolant line running off so I could slip the line from the breather tank on it. It seemingly looked and worked fine until I started filling it up with coolant. Apparently the banjo bolt is not meant to seal coolant very well. (It leaks like a SIV):aw:
So for the time being I put back in the drain plug that I initially used and it stopped off one of the breather tank ports. I am going to try to use some rubber washers and hope it will solve my problem.
Does anyone know of a better way I could tap the water neck. Using the holes already provided by the manufacturer (I.E the ones already drilled in it)? How do most people tap the water neck (s14 water neck) for coolant line? What do you use? Where can I get it? Does anyone happen to have it?
Pics:
Pblesh85/breather tank - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m205/Pblesh85/breather%20tank/)
Thank you for looking and any input is appreciated.