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#44934 - 14/10/05 09:27 PM
differential breather?
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Do we have a differential breather? And if so where is it located. Thank you in advance.
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#44935 - 14/10/05 09:38 PM
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 that would be that tube sticking up out of the axle
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#44936 - 14/10/05 09:51 PM
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Once again mud thank you man. SO I take it it runs pretty high up from the looks. Looks like IM going to have to take a look. Thanks man.
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#44937 - 15/10/05 04:46 PM
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Originally posted by shortcut:
Once again mud thank you man. SO I take it it runs pretty high up from the looks. Looks like IM going to have to take a look. Thanks man. yea, it runs up to the body almost, when i took a look at mine after i sunk part of my truck, i noticed that the breather went way up so i wasnt as worried about getting water in there
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#44938 - 15/10/05 06:03 PM
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Cool. Now Im not worried. Yeah Water in the diff. Not a good thing.
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#44939 - 15/10/05 08:13 PM
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Yeah unless you are in water up to your body. I will be relocating my breather much higher. I will post pics when it is done.
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#44940 - 15/10/05 09:29 PM
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Yes, please post as soon as you can. Cuz I might want to relocate it pending on where it is. Havent looked yet.
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#44941 - 16/10/05 01:12 PM
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Originally posted by Alpine Spirit:
Yeah unless you are in water up to your body. I will be relocating my breather much higher. I will post pics when it is done. Where are you relocating yours? I've been going to run the front one up the "A" pillar and the rear one up the "C" pillar or in the back. I've been too lazy to figure it out for now, so I would like to see what you are doing.
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#44942 - 16/10/05 03:58 PM
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Loc: Lawrenceville, NJ, USA
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On the jeep, I used to put a filter on the end of the breathers...it used to make it almost impossible for water to leak in....and I've forgotten what type I used to use that worked...it may have been a plastic fuel filter. 
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#44943 - 16/10/05 08:17 PM
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We used to do that too. Used a small filter that looked like a baby K&N.
Some of the guys put an S bend in the line too, with the filter at the top. (Picture the S lying on it's side.) This way if any water did happen to get in, it didn't neccessarily go down the line to the diff.
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#44944 - 16/10/05 08:49 PM
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Theres one for the front too right? I need to extend both. What size tubing fits those guys anyways?
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#44945 - 17/10/05 09:10 AM
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Originally posted by TJ: On the jeep, I used to put a filter on the end of the breathers...it used to make it almost impossible for water to leak in....and I've forgotten what type I used to use that worked...it may have been a plastic fuel filter.
Did the filters look like the ones being used on this Samurai: Super Samurai (Second picture down on the right) -Bp
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#44946 - 17/10/05 09:17 AM
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The tube extensions on the rear diff., did you guys add those or did they come off the assembly line like that. THe reason I ask is because my rear diff. breather has no extension tube. All it is the little breather screwed right into the axle houseing. When I did my Sl and dropped the front diff. it had the extension tube. It doesnt make sence to me that my front diff. would have an extension and the rear would not. 
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#44947 - 17/10/05 10:13 AM
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#44948 - 17/10/05 11:05 AM
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The front and rear diffs, and the tranny/t-case, have breathers...stock.
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#44949 - 17/10/05 05:32 PM
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Wow this is nice info. GOing to have to start relocating. WOOHOO. Water here I come  . OKay maybe ill wait but, soon.
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#44951 - 18/10/05 05:42 AM
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Originally posted by TJ: The front and rear diffs, and the tranny/t-case, have breathers...stock.
Maybe my wording was alittle off. on the rear is there an extension tube or is the breather screwed right into the axle houseing? ![[Smoking]](graemlins/smokin.gif)
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#44952 - 18/10/05 05:45 AM
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Originally posted by shortcut: Wow this is nice info. GOing to have to start relocating. WOOHOO. Water here I come . OKay maybe ill wait but, soon.just becareful with water, i dont have a pic of it, but on our trucks the alternator sits very low in the engine, frying alternators is a common thing people have happen when doing deep water crossings
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#44953 - 18/10/05 07:47 AM
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Originally posted by airbornenurse: Originally posted by TJ: [b]The front and rear diffs, and the tranny/t-case, have breathers...stock. There is an extension tube that runs up to the body.
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#44954 - 18/10/05 07:51 AM
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Originally posted by UofA_Xterra: Originally posted by airbornenurse: [b] Originally posted by TJ: [b]The front and rear diffs, and the tranny/t-case, have breathers...stock. Maybe my wording was alittle off. on the rear is there an extension tube or is the breather screwed right into the axle houseing? [/b] Hmmm. I guess the "assembly rear differntial extension tube attacher person" must have been on crack the day my X passed by him at a blistering pace. :rolleyes:
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#44955 - 18/10/05 09:17 AM
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Originally posted by airbornenurse: Originally posted by UofA_Xterra: [b] Originally posted by airbornenurse: [b] quote:
Originally posted by TJ:
The front and rear diffs, and the tranny/t-case, have breathers...stock.
Maybe my wording was alittle off. on the rear is there an extension tube or is the breather screwed right into the axle houseing? [/b] Hmmm. I guess the "assembly rear differntial extension tube attacher person" must have been on crack the day my X passed by him at a blistering pace. :rolleyes:
Maybe it's different for Xterras, but my Frontier didn't come from the factory with any breather extension tubes. My breathers are screwed right into the axle housing like you described, airbornenurse.
Here are more links regarding extending the axle breathers:
NOR:
Axle breather
(kev0153 in the above thread didn't have the extensions on his X)
TUNFS:
extending axle breathers?
-Bp
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#44956 - 18/10/05 11:41 AM
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Thanks BP. I'll add alittle color under your screen name. 
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#44957 - 18/10/05 02:54 PM
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Originally posted by mudx4x4: Originally posted by shortcut: [b]Wow this is nice info. GOing to have to start relocating. WOOHOO. Water here I come . OKay maybe ill wait but, soon. It's not the water that's killing the alternators. Clear water has absolutely no ill effect. It's the mud and gunk and all the sticks and branches in the mud that kill alternators. If anything, clean water is only beneficial because it'll clean it out a little.
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#44958 - 18/10/05 02:59 PM
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Originally posted by AHTOXA: Originally posted by mudx4x4: [b] Originally posted by shortcut: [b]Wow this is nice info. GOing to have to start relocating. WOOHOO. Water here I come . OKay maybe ill wait but, soon. just becareful with water, i dont have a pic of it, but on our trucks the alternator sits very low in the engine, frying alternators is a common thing people have happen when doing deep water crossings[/b]
If anything, clean water is only beneficial because it'll clean it out a little.[/b]yea but how often do you cross nice and clean water? all the water crossings ive done contain mud, some rocks, and whatever else is hiding in there
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#44959 - 18/10/05 03:00 PM
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Originally posted by mudx4x4: Originally posted by AHTOXA: [b] Originally posted by mudx4x4: [b] quote:
Originally posted by shortcut:
Wow this is nice info. GOing to have to start relocating. WOOHOO. Water here I come . OKay maybe ill wait but, soon. just becareful with water, i dont have a pic of it, but on our trucks the alternator sits very low in the engine, frying alternators is a common thing people have happen when doing deep water crossings[/b]
If anything, clean water is only beneficial because it'll clean it out a little.[/b]yea but how often do you cross nice and clean water? all the water crossings ive done contain mud, some rocks, and whatever else is hiding in there
True that.
Apparently, mud, you are like me and bored at work so you sit on XOC. You're here every time I post! ![[Laughing]](graemlins/laughing.gif)
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#44960 - 18/10/05 08:04 PM
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I take it thats really the only problem with going through water. What else though. I mean what about inside the X. I think water will be driven around for now. THank you for all this. Now its something to work on. I mean I think it would be fun to cross streams and what not.
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#44961 - 18/10/05 08:59 PM
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#44962 - 18/10/05 09:44 PM
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Starting in 02, the rear axle did not have a breather tube that goes up, just a floater type shutoff CAP.
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#44963 - 19/10/05 05:30 AM
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Originally posted by AHTOXA: Originally posted by mudx4x4: [b] Originally posted by AHTOXA: [b] quote:
Originally posted by mudx4x4:
quote:
Originally posted by shortcut:
Wow this is nice info. GOing to have to start relocating. WOOHOO. Water here I come . OKay maybe ill wait but, soon. just becareful with water, i dont have a pic of it, but on our trucks the alternator sits very low in the engine, frying alternators is a common thing people have happen when doing deep water crossings[/b]
If anything, clean water is only beneficial because it'll clean it out a little.[/b]yea but how often do you cross nice and clean water? all the water crossings ive done contain mud, some rocks, and whatever else is hiding in there
True that.
Apparently, mud, you are like me and bored at work so you sit on XOC. You're here every time I post!
well your close, i'm in college so i'm bored at school ![[LOL]](graemlins/lol.gif) , but right now i'm inbetween classes, gimmie a couple years to get a real job after i graudate, then i'll be bored at work and on XOC like you but since XOC is the only thing that really entertains me on the internet, i'm, usually here when im near a computer lol the rest of the internet is so boring with no drama
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#44965 - 19/10/05 11:52 AM
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Originally posted by airbornenurse: Thanks BP. I'll add alittle color under your screen name. cool - thanks! ![[Wave]](graemlins/wave.gif) -Bp
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#44966 - 19/10/05 12:02 PM
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Originally posted by oleblue:
Starting in 02, the rear axle did not have a breather tube that goes up, just a floater type shutoff CAP. My '02 DOES have the breather tube going up to the body.
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#44967 - 19/10/05 01:23 PM
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Originally posted by AHTOXA: Originally posted by oleblue:
[b]Starting in 02, the rear axle did not have a breather tube that goes up, just a floater type shutoff CAP. Is it also dependant on whether or not you have a dealer installed tow hitch? I think I remember seeing some Nissan bulletin regarding the axle breathers when having a hitch installed,(maybe because they think you will run out and launch boats or something.) -Bp
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#44968 - 19/10/05 04:46 PM
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Originally posted by AHTOXA: Originally posted by oleblue:
[b]Starting in 02, the rear axle did not have a breather tube that goes up, just a floater type shutoff CAP. Correction then, Later 02's. You know, the ones with the newer air dam (at that time). I have the Nissan hitch too.
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#44969 - 24/10/05 10:12 AM
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#44970 - 24/10/05 11:06 AM
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And here is one on my later 02 
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#44971 - 24/10/05 12:02 PM
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I wonder if they are interchangeable...like can the end of the '02 pop onto the end of the '01?
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#44972 - 24/10/05 04:32 PM
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2000 & 2001 has breather tubes that run up to the body.
2002 and up has one-way check valves instead of a tube that only let stuff (air) out of the diff. Problem is, they tend to completely clog, and which allows the diff to pressurize, and you will start seeing some oil seeping out where there are gaskets/joints.
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#44973 - 24/10/05 07:15 PM
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I will post mine up tommorrow.
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#44974 - 25/10/05 05:30 AM
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I have a oil "wet" spot around my breather tube. Any ideas? We had the same type breathers on alot of our military vehicles, we were told just to make sure they could spin and that would indicate a operable breather.
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#44975 - 16/04/06 10:37 PM
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so would it be a good idea to run a tube up high?? If I have one of these caps.. And are they on the t-case and the tranny??
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#44976 - 17/04/06 11:42 AM
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Originally posted by xterra in HI:
so would it be a good idea to run a tube up high?? If I have one of these caps.. And are they on the t-case and the tranny?? Yes, t-case and tranny should have the breathers as well. I think it's a good idea to run the higher in case you are stuck in deep water for more than a minute or so.
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#44977 - 17/04/06 12:18 PM
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I just replaced mine. I drilled and tapped out the diff so I could put a 1/2"ips fitting in there (ARB has now recommended doing this to prevent the oil blowback problem that is common with them) I ran a 3/8"id pressure washer hose from the axle up into the top of the rear tail light. It was really pretty easy.
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#44978 - 17/04/06 12:49 PM
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Is that enough? ive seen the video where u go deeper? Terminate at the rack perhaps :-)
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