3rd gen diff breather

[Ava_Banana]

Putting up this thread for other 3rd gen owners who want to put a front diff breather on.

re: this thread:

http://www.hiluxsurf.co.uk/forums/sh...light=breather

So, I wanted to fit diff breathers after lovely Flat Essex seems to flood more and more. (I drive to work down a road called Watery Lane......named for obvious reasons).

Rear diff breather - piece of pi55......easy to do, fairly easy to run the pipes up along the underside up into the engine bay.

Front breather....not so easy....I couldn't see it from above.......couldn't even see the diff. Couldn't see it easily from below.

Removed the two bash plates........still couldn't see the diff breather plug...

...spent 3/4 of an hour working my way with my fingers around the diff.

...found what I thought might be the breather...but it had something on it..

Eventually had a good look around in the engine bay and found what I think is a factory fitted front diff breather.

Googling throws up that the US spec 4runner had factory fitted front diff breathers.

...it seems mine does too.

Moral....if you have a 3rd gen Surf, check under the bonnet on the passenger side wheel arch....you may have a breather already installed.

[nero279]

learn someat new every day,

...makes sense if you go back to the parts catalogue actually and look at the difference in the picture between the front and rear diff. and the fact that the rear is named as a breather plug, and the front as a breather union.

Any other 3rd gen owners found the same thing?

[Ava_Banana]

I thought that too....once I had been back to the pictures and actually examined them in detail.

...all I gotta do now is put the bash plates back on......and put a decent top on the breather pipe from the front as the breather is just loose in the top of the pipe..

..I am assuming it is the diff breather.....as it just dissapears down the side of the engine.....must be......what else could it be .....transfer case breather I suppose...I wonder if there is one of those on there.

EDIT: ****

I am a silly bugg@r....Nero...just seen page two of that parts link you sent me......it only details the Front Differential Breather tube!!!!!!!

Oh well, you learn something new every day.

[nero279]

on the 2nd gens there is a breather by that same battery for the underslung aircon fans or something.

To be safe i'd trace it right back to the diff so you know for sure that that is what it is.

[Ava_Banana]

Marvellous..........4wd now not working.

...I must have dislodged a pipe or something when fitting the breather

[wpg_kzn130]

on the 2nd gens there is a breather by that same battery for the underslung aircon fans or something.

To be safe i'd trace it right back to the diff so you know for sure that that is what it is.

do you know of a forum or website with a dummy proof explanation on how to do this? preferably with pictures, so i may attempt it on my '93 3.0.
Thanks!

[MattF]

do you know of a forum or website with a dummy proof explanation on how to do this? preferably with pictures, so i may attempt it on my '93 3.0.
Thanks!

http://toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/

[wpg_kzn130]

[QUOTE=MattF;559842]http://toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/[/QUOTE
this site is golden, thanks!