Can't find manual gearbox breather

[mudslinger]

cap comes off with pliers and plenty of twisting etc. running pipe is easy make sure you get hose that is a big diameter as i brought stuff too dskinny and ended up filing the breather to make it fit. works a treat now

[geeves]

If you suspect water in the box dont leave it in there. Rusted gears dont work so well.
you can take a small sample from the drain after it has sat overnight and drop it on a hotish stove element. If it hisses there was water in it.

[4x4SWANNY]

And if it comes out all grey and yucky its has water in it too..

[4x4SWANNY]

If i get time tommorrow i will take a pic of my spare gear box. from the 3.1 motor..And the gear box from a 2.8..
....Just to show the differences...and the breathers..

[lewis]

Thanks guys, yeah will give it a go with some more force haha. Yeah last time the bottom few hundred ml came out milky, and I have been through lots of rivers and bogs and sometimes its quite hard to get into first so I do want to get the breathers sorted and change the oil again.

[lewis]

Ok. I have popped off the passenger side one (drivers side one is bloody hard to get at with pliers at the right angle and if I am sure about what im goign to ask next then I might just dremel it off).

So they are spring loaded. I put my finger in the hole and it appears that it doesn't open. Moving the shifter around there maybe a small gap? but I dont have fingernails so I cant catch an edge to tell.

Mudslinger, do you understand how this works? If I get a large enough tube (havent measured but probably 15mm) and put it over the opening is it still going to breathe properly without the spring loaded thing in there?

Thanks!

[mudslinger]

there is no spring the cap just lifts up with pressure and underwater the cap floats hence why water gets in. with the cap off its just a hole into the gearbox

[lewis]

There is a spring under the cap though? And if I put my finger into the hole it is solid metal at the end...

[mudslinger]

when i took my caps off no spring flew out

[lewis]

I wouldnt say it flew out, but there were springs behind the caps. Did you put your finger in the hole? I swear it feels just like a dead end...