Update on the separator,,, All is fine for a long time,,, until.....
Several things happeded at once and it took me a while to figure it out... First, I started to develop a leak from the acessory case gasket,,,, then my mags needed points,, put new points in and put mags back on.. but at this time I decided to pipe the drain out of the oil separator into the acessory case....
I tightened up the acessory case bolts snugly.... Go fly,,, come back and walk around the plane opening up cowling doors.... OIL ALL OVER THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PLANE,,, now I am not talking a little,,, BUT A LOT,,
Go into emergency thinking mode.. pull all cowling off...
The hose going out of the engine to the separator slowly kinked itself because of the tight bend,,, thus causing no breathing,,, which caused the engine to breathe backwards... up through the oil drain,, and back through the separator and out the breather tube onto the belly and side of the plane....
So I cut the kink out and replaced it with a (not sure what the correct name is) conduit that electricians use (the grey stuff).... anyway you can buy a 90degree bend and I heated it up with a propane torch to bend it to about a 180 or a little less...plugged it in both ends of the hose and wala,,, no more kinks at all,, and cant kink... I was going to use metal conduit, but dont think I could get it to bend that short and tight without kinking..
Thus, now the engine breathes and the acessory case is not leaking now...
So,, No kinking allowed... Fortunately I had just hooked the oil drain hose up to the separator and it could breathe backwards,,, or there was a good possiblility of blowing out the prop gasket...