Diff breather

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Re: Diff breather

Post by Anton » Tue Apr 04, 2017 1:31 pm

If you are worried about rolling over, put a tesla check valve into the line just above each diff and next to the tcase breather outlet, set up to let liquid in. Put another one in the engine bay that is the opposite way around, to keep liquid out.

No moving parts, gasses can flow as they need to but oil and water cannot pass the valves so they stay where they are supposed to be - and GL4 won't mix with GL5 either. Just make sure you get the right size valves so oil can't flow backwards through them, but air and steam can.
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Re: Diff breather

Post by ScottieJ » Tue Apr 04, 2017 3:04 pm

where on earth do you buy them from? :lol:

there's always this simple option
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Re: Diff breather

Post by ROBBIE » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:44 pm

Haha all this info on how to run breathers, all this is because I couldn't work out that the axle has a cover inside that covers the hole. As. The sprung cover was seized and the hole full of mud and hung I will just run a hose up onto the bulkhead, maybe with a small filter, same as on the old SJ
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Re: Diff breather

Post by Anton » Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:40 pm

ScottieJ wrote:where on earth do you buy them from? :lol:
Erm... You get them from a guy with a 3d printer...???
ScottieJ wrote: there's always this simple option
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That is probably the best option.
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