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Pic of breather hose on front Dana 44

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#1 ·
Can someone post a good, clean pic of how the breather hose attaches to the axle on the front Dana 44? I have a 2016 JKUR and just had the Artec truss installed:

http://www.wranglerforum.com/f274/a...m/f274/artec-industries-axle-armor-pics-review-183282.html?highlight=truss+hose

The breather hose now goes inside the truss and I'm feeling around in the dark inside the truss to try to figure out how it attaches. I'm planning to extend the hose and my original plan was just to run all new line, but I don't want to pull the old one off until I'm sure I can get a new line attached.

Thanks!
 
#8 ·
I finally got a chance to crawl under a stock Rubicon at the local dealer. Couldn't get a good pic, but the front is a little different, which is what I suspected. The hose actually attaches to the back of the diff housing, not on top of the axle tube like the rear. So, on the pic above of it feeding thru the truss, it basically just goes straight in and attaches there. My question is answered: I should be able to just pull the hose straight out and easily re-attach it by feeding it back through that hole in the truss. My concern was it bent downwards and attached to the axle, which would have made it a lot more difficult, if not impossible, to re-attach.