Removing the breather and just plugging the hole looks like the path we are going to take.
Thanks for the info about the watchdogs. I didn't know anything about them until I came to this site. My old site used the bulb tryco oilers.
Thanks for all the replies.
The oil ring was turning smoothly. The only abnormal splashing seen was the oil coming off of the radial bearing itself. I moved the breather to port that wasn't getting the splashing. I'm going to monitor for further leaking and oil level change.
Just checked everything and the oiler is in the correct spot and the breather was where the drawings said it should be which was the closest to the impeller with the middle port plugged which is over the slinger ring and the third port was over nothing really. The oil was slinging off of the...
I don't think it's a new occurrence, but I've only been at this site since Nov 2017. While looking at other pumps nearly every sulzer pump we have with that breather is doing it. It was brought to my attention when one of the pumps was written up for an oil leak.
The sight glasses are showing...
I have some Sulzer pumps that have oil coming out of the breathers. The pumps aren't that big, mostly driven by 15-25HP motors at either 1800 or 3600rpm. They all have the Watchdog oiler sight glass combo.
What could be the cause of this?
Could a different breather be utilized that could fix...
