Live axle breather

[dalongbloke]

Is the ital axle beather hole threaded? Just got a replacemrnt (nylon) breather which appears to have a thread in it??? Does anyone know what fitting could fit so I could make a breather tube? Ta.... Andy

[ChrisHawkins]

Hi Andy,

 

I can have a look when I get home, I managed to fit a aeroquip fitting to mine and run it to a small catch tank, have a look here

 

Chris

 

K93 AMJ

[ChrisHawkins]

In fact looking at the link I listed the sizes

 

Chris

 

K93 AMJ

[Ralph]

Ital Axle shiuld have a thread.

 

I replaced one not so long ago, the last owner changed the axle but broke the breather in the process.

 

 

[Ralph]

Ital Axle shiuld have a thread.

 

I replaced one not so long ago, the last owner changed the axle but broke the breather in the process.

 

 

 

 

[Ralph]

Ital Axle shiuld have a thread.

 

I replaced one not so long ago, the last owner changed the axle but broke the breather in the process.

 

 

 

 

[Ralph]

Ital Axle shiuld have a thread.

 

I replaced one not so long ago, the last owner changed the axle but broke the breather in the process.

 

 

 

 

[Ralph]

Ital Axle shiuld have a thread.

 

I replaced one not so long ago, the last owner changed the axle but broke the breather in the process.

 

 

 

 

[Revin Kevin]

Hi all,

Whether you put a carch tank on the end or not just remember it must be able to vent to atmosphere or it could force oil past the seals. I've enlarge the threaded hole (not absolutely necessary) then have an open end pipe running up to the boot floor level and back down to the lower chassis tube, to allow it to breath but not have oil forced out on heavy corner loads. works fine for me.

 

Cheers

Chris

[john g]

Looking at the breather on my Ital axle is nothing like yours Chris. Best can be described as a piece of plastic tube about 4" long which seems to be fitted from inside the axle tube unlike the 'threaded' version you have.