PSA: Check your axle breathers

Disco95

Well-known member
Mar 20, 2020
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Portland, OR
If you haven’t checked in a while…

I’d noticed a little pressure in the rear diff last time I pulled the fill plug. The D1 breathers seem a little underengineered with that one tiny passage and no filter. The line was gummed up with 90wt sludge beyond the breather, too. Hard to get clear without shop air, but I managed to blast it out with a little portable tire inflator. Kind of made me miss the little jiggle valves on my Series…

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joe b
pdx or
95 Disco 5sp V8