CharlieS
GOLD Star
This is probably "preaching to the choir" for anyone that offroads, but I thought I'd bring it up again.
The factory diff breathers on the 80 series aren't very high in the chassis. They are easily submerged and/or smothered in mud. They can suck in water, or get clogged up pretty easily.
I put extended breathers on my 200 when I regeared and added lockers, but didn't get around to it until today on the 80.
This is the front from 300k miles of unknown service and one weekend of pre-running class 4 roads. I was well over "wading depth" in mud several times.
The rear looked about the same.
Slee installed the lockers under prior ownership, so I assume the breathers were working properly when it was in their shop.
I don't think they were functioning optimally anymore.
Lots of ways to do this, but what I do is run rubber fuel line from the breather nipples to the engine bay where I have installed a filtered breather cap.
I need to do the remaining breather(s) and expect to do that when I do my final drive rear seal in the next couple of weeks (waiting for parts).
Also, I have arb lockers and see minor drips from the breathers, and am hoping this will relieve any back pressure that might contribute to this.
The factory diff breathers on the 80 series aren't very high in the chassis. They are easily submerged and/or smothered in mud. They can suck in water, or get clogged up pretty easily.
I put extended breathers on my 200 when I regeared and added lockers, but didn't get around to it until today on the 80.
This is the front from 300k miles of unknown service and one weekend of pre-running class 4 roads. I was well over "wading depth" in mud several times.
The rear looked about the same.
Slee installed the lockers under prior ownership, so I assume the breathers were working properly when it was in their shop.
I don't think they were functioning optimally anymore.
Lots of ways to do this, but what I do is run rubber fuel line from the breather nipples to the engine bay where I have installed a filtered breather cap.
I need to do the remaining breather(s) and expect to do that when I do my final drive rear seal in the next couple of weeks (waiting for parts).
Also, I have arb lockers and see minor drips from the breathers, and am hoping this will relieve any back pressure that might contribute to this.
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