Alternative Oil Breather Pipe

[willard]

Evening all. Trying to locate a thread from last year about an alternative to replacement for the oil breather pipe on a DG engine. Basically it was a home made flexible plastic pipe. Can anyone else remember it and point me in the right direction?....please?....funds are tight and the existing one has been "shortened" to make it last a few more days!

Cheers.

[AngeloEvs]

this thread......https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p ... e#p7415014

[jake1953]

Cruz on here pointed out that they are still available from VW. The part no. is 025-129-493B which is actually for the 2.1 engine but no difference. I bought one and it is about £14.00 inc. vat if that helps

[willard]

You're all stars....of the pawn variety

Jake - thats a top tip cheers. I'll give the local dealer a call.

Tops.

[Nicola&Tony]

Just in case it aint at vw anymore:
Brickwerks pipe

Tony

[waltraud]

I've got a home made one with flexi pipe and rubber ends which fits really well, u can have it for postage. Tim

[CovKid]

There are many things on these vehicles that can't be fabricated (at least easily) including castings like heads etc but there are many parts, particularly hoses and pipes that can definately be made up or in some cases improved upon. The T25 had a definate lifespan as far as VW were concerned and like all manufacturers they try to improve and develop certain ideas on subsequent models. However, with the wedge lasting as long as it has (hoorah for VW engineering), its owners have discovered the vehicles strengths and weaknesses and quite a few parts have emerged in recent years that supercede stock items through the use of better materials or extra strengthening etc and I'm all for this approach and the ingenuity of owners.

The meccano style of the core v-dub range lends itself very well to adaptations and customisation and there are T25s (and bugs, bays) driving around that have been renovated and customised to a level that VW could have only dreamt about. I'm always appreciate of those that like to fit like-for-like but we have to accept that many parts are already obsolete now and recycling and reengineering items to hand is quite satisfying at times. The plus side is that because these vehicles have been as succesful as they have been, there is still a demand for spares and previously obsolete items quite often end up in the chain again as others take up the gauntlet of making them independently. In short, the longer we keep them going, the greater the spares supply is likely to be..

Food for thought anyway. You can't reinvent the wheel, but you can sure make it run better.