Heavy breathing

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Heavy breathing

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Is it possible for the timed breather on a Lightweight to somehow "stop working"?

The reason I ask is that my bike seems to pressurise the crankcase. On the last run it blew quite a bit of oil vapour out through a small gap in the rocker inspection cover gasket. It's not a stuck ring or anything like that: there's plenty of compression and it still "chuffs" out of the rocker cover when kicked over with the plug out. :(

It's not entirely clear to me from the exploded diagram exactly how the breather works (and there seem to be at least three different variants). Mine is the later type, which I don't think can come loose (unlike the earlier type).

I don't really fancy stripping the engine for what seems like a relatively minor issue. Everything else seems fine, so I might just make up a Webco-style breather onto the inspection cover...
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