Technical Hose identification

[SnowieR]

Hi,

New owner of a 1992 Ducato - Hymer Camp motorhome.

It seems to run and drive fine but noticed that there's a random hose that's not connected as attached. It has been tucked out of the way but I'm not sure where it is supposed to go.

It's the 2.5td Sofim engine (although I'm not sure where the turbo on this sits; hard to tell it even has a turbo on a vehicle this old as it's still slow)

Hopefully not that important as I just drove 230 miles

 

[bugsymike]

Check this one one eBay for a clue, I see this one is non turbo.
eBay item number:315216694914
Pic is poor but is it from the metal breather canistor as a T piece from the hose?

 

[SnowieR]

The hose goes into here, but not sure what that part is called.

 

[bugsymike]

The hose goes into here, but not sure what that part is called.

If you mean the metal canistor bolted to the side of the engine with a larger pipe coming out it is a crankcase breather/flame trap.
I did think looking at that old engine on the eBay link I sent you that there was possible a T piece into the hose going into that canistor, so it may be that it was meant to go to the air filter direction possibly?

 

[SnowieR]

Aha, thanks. Once I searched for crankcase breather and similar I came across this post

Ducato - Engine breather Series1 Ducato 2.5 DT re-route

This thread is for the general discussion of the Guide Engine breather Series1 Ducato 2.5 DT re-route. Please add to the discussion here. italiAlex submitted a new guide: Engine breather Series1 Ducato 2.5 DT re-route Mine is a 1989 Ducato 2.5 turbo. Lots of these still going strong but the...

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So yeah designed this way, seems on such an old vehicle it's just vented out.

 

[bugsymike]

Aha, thanks. Once I searched for crankcase breather and similar I came across this post

Ducato - Engine breather Series1 Ducato 2.5 DT re-route

This thread is for the general discussion of the Guide Engine breather Series1 Ducato 2.5 DT re-route. Please add to the discussion here. italiAlex submitted a new guide: Engine breather Series1 Ducato 2.5 DT re-route Mine is a 1989 Ducato 2.5 turbo. Lots of these still going strong but the...

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So yeah designed this way, seems on such an old vehicle it's just vented out.

I don't think at that age any vented straight to the atmosphere from the factory.
As an apprentice in the 1960s it was not unusual to see old cars with oil vapour coming out of a pipe under the engine, but around the 70s most had some form of recycling into the inlet via a breather valve.

 

[Communicator]

I don't think at that age any vented straight to the atmosphere from the factory.
As an apprentice in the 1960s it was not unusual to see old cars with oil vapour coming out of a pipe under the engine, but around the 70s most had some form of recycling into the inlet via a breather valve.

The attached extract from an Iveco Daily manual is dated February 2002, but it was a 3rd edition. The reference to the x244 Ducato is mine.

 

[bugsymike]

The attached extract from an Iveco Daily manual is dated February 2002, but it was a 3rd edition. The reference to the x244 Ducato is mine.

Useful, but I think it was an earlier version with the metal breather/flame trap in the OPs right hand photo

 

[Communicator]

Useful, but I think it was an earlier version with the metal breather/flame trap in the OPs right hand photo

I should have been more explicit. The text refers to discharging fumes to atmosphere, and not into the air inlet via NRV/flame trap.

 

[bugsymike]

I should have been more explicit. The text refers to discharging fumes to atmosphere, and not into the air inlet via NRV/flame trap.

Sorry not concentrating , stress re family member.

 

[Reg 65]

I don't think at that age any vented straight to the atmosphere from the factory.
As an apprentice in the 1960s it was not unusual to see old cars with oil vapour coming out of a pipe under the engine, but around the 70s most had some form of recycling into the inlet via a breather valve.

Yes that was my experience too
As an apprentice in the late 1960's I asked one of the old hands what a pipe under the bonnet was for. Although its so long ago I remember it because of his reply 'Oh thats just to make it eat its own sh!t' So they had already begun re-circulation of gases/vapours back into the engine then. Although, of course, not as much as they do now.