Oil Fill Tube Clearance Suggestions

[namredla]

Hi All, I have a clearance issue with my oil fill tube / breather cap and carb. Just polling the group to see if anyone has any good ideas to remedy the situation. I realize that "get a different carb" is an option, but I do want to run the one that I have (which is a 670 Avenger, kind of a long carb). The oil fill tube runs through an air gap intake and is a little bit farther back (toward the rear) than I typically see. Thus, the float bowl is almost touching the tube, and would be well into the big breather cap that goes on top. The carb is just sitting on the intake for a fit test right now. The options as I see them are:
1) buy a new carb
2) cut the fill tube down as low as I can and find a low profile cap that does not extend much (if any) past the diameter of the tube. The problem with this is that I would like it to be a filtered intake for PCV.
3) cut my big filtered breather cap and tack a piece of metal over what I cut, so that it would not be round but kind of D shaped. This would be to eliminate that part of the cap that would be into the carb.
4) reverse the PCV and make the fill tube the vacuum side.
5) nix the PCV all together and put a low profile cap on. There is a crank case vent right next to the distributor that would prevent any positive pressure.

I have included some pictures for reference (none show the big filter cap that would also need to go on, but you will see it's tight):

[Dead Parrot]

Angle it to the side enough to clear things. If the manifold hole only fits straight up, see if you can get a tube with a bend in it.