What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[parb]

Installed the Agile Offroad Diff Breather kit. There were a couple of differences between the list of parts in the instructions and what’s in the box, but everything shown in the photos in the instructions is present.

Instructions say a 13mm deep socket can be used to fit the new breathers, but that wasn’t the case - the fitting for the hose is sufficiently wider in diameter to prevent the socket from fitting. Used a ratcheting wrench instead.

The 8mm hose retains its coiled / spring shape, making threading it through/around things a test of one’s patience. This is definitely a job to do BEFORE you fit skid plates if at all possible.

EDIT: as John says in the YouTube video, both differentials hissed as the factory breathers were removed, indicating both were holding pressure.

Any advice for someone who has a full set of skid plates on the car?

 

[Clark Kent]

Any advice for someone who has a full set of skid plates on the car?

Outsource it?

I've just replumbed my camper with new 12mm John Guest poly tubing that was also tightly coiled. The best thing I did was uncoil the tubing and hung it over my shed beams with a couple of weights attached. After a week the tubing was straight and much easier to work with. You could do the same by tying it along a fence under tension, or peg it out on the ground in the sun, etc.

I used a length of strong cord as a leader to run in the pipe. Same idea as pulling ethernet cable. Route the cord where you want the pipe to go then pull the pipe through. I drilled a small hole through the end of the pipe and looped the cord through the hole and tied it off. Discard that bit of pipe when you're finished pulling.

 

[Tom109]

Any advice for someone who has a full set of skid plates on the car?

Route the breather tubing out to the sill area, then forward to the engine bay.

 

[Nadir5]

Agile’s proposed routing is good - I wasn’t objecting to that, just the difficulty of controlling the tubing. @Clark Kent ’s method of getting some of the “coil” out of the line would be worth a try if you have time.

 

[AaronS]

Agile’s proposed routing is good - I wasn’t objecting to that, just the difficulty of controlling the tubing. @Clark Kent ’s method of getting some of the “coil” out of the line would be worth a try if you have time.

Agreed... it's not hard. Just sorta a PITA.

 

[Tom109]

I wonder what tubing they are using?

The tubing I purchased from McMaster was super straight after I removed the zip ties. I capped the end and fed it straight through.

 

[DenisM]

Any advice for someone who has a full set of skid plates on the car?

Nylon tubing is cheap. 8m is plenty. Don't waste time, just replace it with the non coiled and route along sill plates with cable ties as advised by @Tom109. I did this ages ago with full set of skid plates already installed. Once I installed the breather, I threaded 2" of heavy duty heat shrink tubing (3:1 shrink) over the nylon line before inserting into the breather. Once finished I used a heat gun to shrink the tubing over the breather and line connection to seal the joint from mud, dust and other rubbish. Job done!

 

[Jeremy996]

Took son back to Newcastle with more stuff for his basement flat; a round trip of 378 miles. We started around 0830 and were back home for 1830, with a break for a pub roast dinner.

The next big adventure will be a 36k service for the Grenadier on the 13/08/2025, my 62nd birthday. (Not able to find a 62 year service for me; it would be useful as I'm taking enough tablets to rattle like a football whistle).

 

[landmannnn]

Took son back to Newcastle with more stuff for his basement flat; a round trip of 378 miles. We started around 0830 and were back home for 1830, with a break for a pub roast dinner.

The next big adventure will be a 36k service for the Grenadier on the 13/08/2025, my 62nd birthday. (Not able to find a 62 year service for me; it would be useful as I'm taking enough tablets to rattle like a football whistle).

You can find a type of service fairly easily.
Possibly not the one you are looking for.

 

[Eric]

Took son back to Newcastle with more stuff for his basement flat; a round trip of 378 miles. We started around 0830 and were back home for 1830, with a break for a pub roast dinner.

The next big adventure will be a 36k service for the Grenadier on the 13/08/2025, my 62nd birthday. (Not able to find a 62 year service for me; it would be useful as I'm taking enough tablets to rattle like a football whistle).

Ah, nice to hear from a youngster..

 

[abbeyroad]

Decided to swap out the stock Bridgestones for 295/70/17 KO3s in prep for my 1,200 mile trip to the PNW for a couple of weeks.

Alignment guy taking it around the block to verify flight worthiness.

 

[RY-Journeyman]

My grenadier has started to eat butterflies. Seems to be the preferred food.

 

[RY-Journeyman]

Exploring QLD. Flinders and dinosaur trails.

 

[Green Gren]

Took the Grenadier up to Crystal Peak Mine, north of Truckee and then back down and over to Hunter Lake Trail, just West and overlooking Reno.
Crystal Peak Mine was easy, and the peak is covered entirely with loose quartz. Hunter Lake was ROCKY, and slow going…took me 5hrs to cover 19mi. Pretty tired, 8hrs total in the driver seat.

 

[TheDocAUS]

Just picked up the IG from its 30,000km service. Purnell Adventure also did 8 campaigns, including the door button and locks, as well as new firmware.

The buttons really started to play up over the last 2-3 weeks. So I am happy they are fixed.

No dramas during the service.

I only had to change tyre pressure back to PSI after picking it up.

I also learnt what the INEOS system monitors for service requirements: kilometers traveled, days since last service and total number of engine hours. That explains a second message I recently had pop up, it was the engine hours total. So service requirements can be triggered by any of the three: time, distance traveled or engine hours. I should have looked closer at the Rok Dr Guide.

 

[Jeremy996]

Just had to change the front nearside tyre at the roadside - not a job for the slight of build, the standard(ish) wheels and tyres are large and awkward. I was able to do it with the supplied tool roll and jack, but if any of the fittings had been a fraction tighter, I'd have been calling the road rescue organisations. (At 6' and 100kg, I am not slight of build!)

Looks like I have a slow leak getting faster from the valve stem. Something to deal with at the service tomorrow.

 

[Eric]

Just had to change the front nearside tyre at the roadside - not a job for the slight of build, the standard(ish) wheels and tyres are large and awkward. I was able to do it with the supplied tool roll and jack, but if any of the fittings had been a fraction tighter, I'd have been called the road rescue organisations. (At 6' and 100kg, I am not slight of build!)

Looks like I have a slow leak getting faster from the valve stem. Something to deal with at the service tomorrow.

Was that a steelie or alloy? Had your spare been loosen at any time prior, or were you able to remove that from factory fitting. In ask because I keep meaning to loosen my spare from factory fit, it's just I keep forgetting. Must put a "post it" on the house back door .

 

[CRH]

Was that a steelie or alloy? Had your spare been loosen at any time prior, or were you able to remove that from factory fitting. In ask because I keep meaning to loosen my spare from factory fit, it's just I keep forgetting. Must put a "post it" on the house back door .

Does your dealer not rotate all 5 wheels during a service?

 

[Tom109]

Does your dealer not rotate all 5 wheels during a service?

Mine rotated 4. Which is fine, as the wheel on the rear door has been plugged, and the ‘Stones sidewall is a bit light for the weight of this vehicle off-road.

 

[Jeremy996]

I guess mine have been cracked off in the past as I could move the bolts in the rear cubby with the provided tool. It was the larger alloys.