What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[ADVAW8S]

I didn't know if I should put this on the joke section or here. But story of a Cyber Truck over landing stuck in middle of know where.

Willamette Valley Wheelers | Anybody missing their cybertruck on Cadillac Hill | Facebook

Anybody missing their cybertruck on Cadillac Hill? Edit, From another group - Here is the story that I know about it: they started at loon Lake early Monday morning, and they made it to the springs...

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[Nadir5]

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.

 

[Asnes]

Wild Camping in Rosevelt national forrest close to home with my daughter overlooking Boulder Colorado. Fun times.

 

[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!