gear box breather

Post by **double diffa** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:19 am

I have a blocked breather on my 84 4runner 5 speed gearbox, can anyone tell me were the breather is?
I removed the plate from under the console, checked on top of the box under the gear shift boots, could feel all the way forward to the bell housing, but nothing there.
Does the transfer have a seperate breather? and, when I find it, how do I water proof it? in those famous words, ......please explain.....
Thanks in advance,
doublediffa

Post by **bear** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:54 am

i have a RN46 and it has 2 seperate beather points , one for the gbox and one 4 the transfer box. these are on the top in the middle. VERY difficult to get to in you have no body lift!

Post by **ausyota** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:29 am

The box has a breather in the plate the shifter is attached through (on mine anyway) and the transfer breaths around the tcase shifter imposible to water proof :(
Paul.

Post by **double diffa** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:14 pm

thanks fellas, I'll have to search a bit harder this weekend.
Eats into 4byun time but.

Post by **objet** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:30 pm

I extended the gearbox breather on my LN106 using bits from Enzed for $11, also had to replace the shifter boots as they had completely perished (I can email pics). No body lift, it was a bit fiddly but do-able.

I was wondering how I was getting all that water and mud in my transfercase - it was coming straight in where the shifter is! So new boots and siliconed in place...

But Paul you've got me thinking, now I've sealed where it breathes from, do I risk water being sucked through the seals instead? Maybe I should put a little breather tube through the boot..

If I ever get the transfer case out I might get a breather tapped into the shifter cover.

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