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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: beggers on February 04, 2007, 18:10:28

Title: Axle breathers
Post by: beggers on February 04, 2007, 18:10:28: Can anyone help, I want to fit breathers to my axle and gearbox and don't know which to fit. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Andy
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: MuddyMachine on February 04, 2007, 18:26:48: I got mine off wizard, have had no problems with them.
Title: Thanks
Post by: beggers on February 04, 2007, 18:42:57: Just been to wizard and liked them enough to buy one. Thanks
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: MuddyMachine on February 04, 2007, 18:52:44: No probs, Its easy to fit too.
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: DiscoCWK on February 04, 2007, 19:09:31: I got my breathers kit from ebay (wizrdbilt) easy to fit and good quality
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 05, 2007, 01:42:58: I just used fishtank pipe but then I had the box out anyway. Tip, if it's black piep it will be carbon in the colouring, this can help with resistance to ageing in hot places (and sun), this is the only reason your tyres are black.
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: clbarclay on February 05, 2007, 15:58:18: I'm using pneumatic control piping as we had a 30m roll of it at home, its pritty much identical to the standard breather pipes so i'm just replaing the old pipes and reausing the existing banjo fittings.
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: beatmasterdave on February 05, 2007, 16:22:52: ok, sorry guys, but why do the axles need to breathe? is it a pipe you've all put on them? from where to where?
cheers
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: muddyjames on February 05, 2007, 16:48:14: Quote from: "Range Rover Blues"
I just used fishtank pipe but then I had the box out anyway. Tip, if it's black piep it will be carbon in the colouring, this can help with resistance to ageing in hot places (and sun), this is the only reason your tyres are black.

I thought tyres were black because tarmac is and if we had multi colour tyres as they wore away the road would be multi coloured and even more confusing in places than it already is. You learn something every day!
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: wizard on February 05, 2007, 16:58:03: You need breathers on the axles and gear/transfer box to allow for the expantion and contraction of the air in the respective housing.
If you block the axle breather pipe off then as the oil warms up in the axle it warms the air inside which inturn increases the air pressure this pressure will then force the oil out a seal.
When the air cools it contracts and creats a vacuum effect, this vacuum will suck in air from outside the axle casing, along the standard breather pipe fitted to both front and rear axle (passender side). If this pipe is under water at the time the axle is cooling then you suck up crud into your axle casing. The same applies to the gear/transfer box.
For this reason if you indend to do a bit of wading its advisable to extend the breathers into the engine bay or better still up the snorkel.

regards
wizard :twisted:
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: thermidorthelobster on February 05, 2007, 17:10:53: Fish tank tubing all the way for me. Buy the little t-pieces as well from the local pet shop and you can just add it to the existing tubing, and run all 3 front breathers into one tube; then if you want to get rid of it at any stage, just pull it off again. Plus, it's see-through, so if anything blows oil, you can see where it's coming from.
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: DiscoCWK on February 05, 2007, 20:17:52: One of the advantages of buying a kit is that they usually come with push fittings and a manifold, which means you have to take only one pipe up the snorkel.
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: thermidorthelobster on February 05, 2007, 22:01:39: Quote from: "DiscoCWK"
One of the advantages of buying a kit is that they usually come with push fittings and a manifold, which means you have to take only one pipe up the snorkel.

My fish tank kit uses t-pieces to run everything into one tube, so there's only one run up the snorkel. And it was about 3 quid 8)
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: Telaren on February 06, 2007, 03:01:15: Where can you get a timing case plug from?

Don't fancy getting mud and water into the timing case.

Cheers

Taz :roll:
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: muddyjames on February 06, 2007, 17:12:17: do you mean the wading plug holes? ebay have them on there for a few quid for 2
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on February 07, 2007, 00:50:19: Quote from: "DiscoCWK"
One of the advantages of buying a kit is that they usually come with push fittings and a manifold, which means you have to take only one pipe up the snorkel.

Is it just me or does that sound everso slightly smutty? :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry, juvenile I know, but I have just finished a night shift and that struck me as funny! I'll go away now.
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: DiscoCWK on February 07, 2007, 09:58:45: Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle"
Quote from: "DiscoCWK"
One of the advantages of buying a kit is that they usually come with push fittings and a manifold, which means you have to take only one pipe up the snorkel.

Is it just me or does that sound everso slightly smutty? :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry, juvenile I know, but I have just finished a night shift and that struck me as funny! I'll go away now.

On reading it again I can see where your coming from!
Title: Axle breathers
Post by: SnakeLogic on February 08, 2007, 00:25:53: Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle"
Quote from: "DiscoCWK"
One of the advantages of buying a kit is that they usually come with push fittings and a manifold, which means you have to take only one pipe up the snorkel.

Is it just me or does that sound everso slightly smutty? :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry, juvenile I know, but I have just finished a night shift and that struck me as funny! I'll go away now.

LOL! :lol: :lol: :lol: