gearbox breather

[sierrajim]

I've got a 1.3ltr gearbox in my slapped together red thing and it pi$$es out oil on any sort of angle.

It has no factory breather valve, it breathes (from what i can tell) from the gear selector boot.

I've been told that i can drill and tap a breather into the top of the box. Is there any way that this could be done without removing the whole box? ie can you unbolt the selector housing without taking the whole thing out and pulling it down?

Or is there any other ways to to fix it? I keep getting told by others that my car is on fire, so far it's only been the smoke generated by the dripping oil onto my muffler

[christover1]

I've got a 1.3ltr gearbox in my slapped together red thing and it pi$$es out oil on any sort of angle.

It has no factory breather valve, it breathes (from what i can tell) from the gear selector boot.

I've been told that i can drill and tap a breather into the top of the box. Is there any way that this could be done without removing the whole box? ie can you unbolt the selector housing without taking the whole thing out and pulling it down?

Or is there any other ways to to fix it? I keep getting told by others that my car is on fire, so far it's only been the smoke generated by the dripping oil onto my muffler

I have got 1 box with a breather and 1 without, they both leak out the rear seal equally as much as each other on uphills.
breather really just stops water and mud getting sucked in...which can help seal life, I suppose.
Are you using all the switches at front of box, ie rev, 4th 5th switches, you could use one of them to fit a breather.
christover

[christover1]

ahhh, the joys of a trailer queen. I never connected mine, just ran a switch on the dash

there ya go, pull switch out, fit a breather in there.
christover

[sierrajim]

Chris, just goes to show that you're not just a pretty face

[christover1]

Chris, just goes to show that you're not just a pretty face

It's probably very lucky I don't have to rely just on my looks
christover