Re: The Jeep saga

From: Andy Levy (andylevy@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 23:06:19 EDT


Jason Bleazard wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 23:26:49 -0400, Andy Levy wrote:
>
>
>
>>As far as I know, all the running gear (both diffs, the t-case and the
>>tranny) all have vent tubes. The front axle vent tube is up in the
>>engine compartment, and I think the rear axle one is under the bed. As
>>for the rest, I can't find them in my FSM; there's no entry for "Vent
>>tubes" or anything in the index.
>
>
> The T-case on my '95 definitely has one. I looked for it when I extended
> the vent tubes on my axles (they're pathetically short on a stock gen II,
> one of the many things they fixed on the gen III).
>
> Anyway, I finally figured out where the tube on the T-case was. Managed
> to spot it with a lot of searching and use of the mirror. It vents right
> above the tranny near the base of the firewall. I figured it was
> protected enough there (not to mention difficult to get to) that it
> probably wouldn't cause problems.
>
> IIRC, it's shown on one of the illustrations in the transfer case chapter
> of the FSM, but they don't talk about it much.

Closest I could find in my FSM was a picture of the t-case with the
little doodad the hose would fit on, but nothing more.

-- 
-andy
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