can someone tell me what this is

hey gents. this is my 3rd second gen Tacoma, but my first 4x4.


it is a 2014 off road and I don't remember my xrunner or prerunner having these capped lines.
the metal end caps spin freely, but will not fall off on their own. it almost seems like a breather for the transfer case but I may be mistaken?
its right next to the oil filler.
thanks

 

breathers

 

Have you traced them to where they come from?

 

that's what I figured. breathers for the transfer case and the rear diff in one location? or are they for something else

 

Frt diff vent

 

not very hard lol. I didn't feel like getting underneath a muddy truck with no safety glasses (cant find them)

 

SWEEET back to a Tacoma those do look to be the breathers like mentioned before!

 

if they bother putting breathers on the front, why don't they do the damn rear high up also?

 

yeah man, im back lol. I loved the evo but I couldn't stand not being in a truck

 

I don't think the older 2nd gens had that tall of a breather actually

nice welcome back!

 

well if theyre gonna spend the time on the front, why not do the back, kinda conflicting lol

 

No difference from my '06. One is the front diff, one is the t-case.

 

a Finger

J/K I think one goes to the power steering and one to front diff. But I am not sure.

 

This, and even if you tried to trace them back it would be difficult. There is a lone 5/16 bolt holding a clip to the top of the front diff, so it's almost impossible to trace them back to their source with the wheels on at least.

 

Yea I get you

Lol I don't have that special 4x4 feature on my truck sorry

 

one is the front diff..and the other is for the trans

 

those creeper breathers are garbage. had one on my 86 and it tore open from the pressure on the first wheeling trip.

 

They were filler in my tg order so I could get free shipping, decided to try them out and yeah like I said garbage, just put a barbed fitting in instead and ran rubber fuel line up high with a breather on the end.

 

I was waiting for someone to reply about my thread on the caps for these.

Just an fyi, not sure why people think one is for the transmission or transfer case, but that is not correct. I traced both of mine, removed and cleaned them.

One if for the front diff, the other us for the front diff actuator.

 

What you have found is the Flux Capacitor. Get you truck up to 88mph and Hols On!