rotten breather hoses

[Lyle Seaman]

Yeah, I saw that article just a few minutes ago.  Given that my breather
hose failed in several places, including right at the fitting, I'm skeptical
that a metal tube with two unions made of precisely the same (wrong)
material used for the original part will last much longer than the original
part did.  Maybe it won't collapse, but it will still rot.  Whatever is in
the vapors coming off the crankcase, it goes through rubber like candy.  


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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:13 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: 20V, oil in spark plug tubes

Pretty simple matter with an I5. 20V.org has an article on collapsing 
breather hoses with mention of a repair kit. I happened to be in a boneyard
and saw a 
largely disassembled '91 100. A metal breather hose was visible, so I
grabbed 
it. I compared the numbers to the 20V.org "repair kit" and saw they were the

same. So, I installed it. I expect the repair kit became standard in '91.

As to your question on installation the metal tube is connected at either
end 
by what plumbers would call "short nipples". In this case they are short 
lengths of rubber hose between the metal hose and the previous connections
for the 
rubber hose. The short lengths of hose are held by screw clamps at each end.

Except for some of torturous bends, I can't see any problem with making one
up 
out of ordinary tube.