Topic: D44 axle breather location?

[neale_rs]

Just a quick question:  Where is the Cherokee D44 axle breather located on the housing?


Thanks

[Jeffy]

Just a quick question:  Where is the Cherokee D44 axle breather located on the housing?


Thanks

Seperate from the brake T.  I think around 6" in from where the brake T is.  You could always fill the stock hole and open up the hole that the T uses.  (This is how it is on the YJ and later Jeep)

[jcsanders79]

On the TJ it is not on the housing but the axle tube on the driver side.  It is pretty easy to notice, the tubing from the port goes up towards the gas tank. 

[neale_rs]

Thanks.  I was getting pinion seal leaks and thought it might be due to a plugged breather.  It looks like mine is set up with the breather hose attached to the brake T but I had read somewhere that the D44 had a separate breather hole.

[95 Lowbuck]

Jeffy is right,
I drilled and tapped the original T fitting hole on the D44
to accept the D35 breather fitting and plugged the stock one.
The D35 breather is a larger dia.

[neale_rs]

95 Lowbuck,

Could you tell me exactly where the original breather was located?

Thanks

[95 Lowbuck]

Like Jeffy said,
It is a little pressed in plastic fitting about the size for a vacume hose
that sticks out of the top of the axle tube about 8" away from
the brake T fitting towards the center.
Maybe yours got broken off somehow.

[neale_rs]

Thanks I'll have to look for that carefully.

[Jeffy]

Like Jeffy said,
It is a little pressed in plastic fitting about the size for a vacume hose
that sticks out of the top of the axle tube about 8" away from
the brake T fitting towards the center.
Maybe yours got broken off somehow.

They are easily damaged/crushed so it could be gone.