HELP - Where is this oil leaking from?

[JCAT Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JCAT]

Can someone please tell me where this oil is leaking from?

Its something at the back of the transfer case?

[Heath74 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Heath74]

Is that grease splatter from the drive shaft?

[JCAT Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JCAT]

No Heath it has just started dropping a few drops of oil on the garage floor.

I am researching it at the moment and it may be something called a diff actuator. I was hoping someone could confirm that for me.

[JCAT Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JCAT]

I am hoping that I have located the problem. The little rubber tube just to the right of the electrical switch (on top of the actuator) was split and as soon as a I knocked it, it came clear of the plastic lug it was attached to on top of the actuator.

I cut the split end of it and re attached it.

My question now is:

Is that tube supposed to be carrying oil from the actuator back towards the engine bay (that's where it runs towards) or have I not found the problem at all?

The manual I have for the Prado (Max Ellery) shows no pictures whatsoever of the diff actuator.

Hoping someone has knowledge of this diff actuator and associated tubing.

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Couple of pics showing where I think the leak came from





Could I be right?

Does anyone now anything about this piece of plastic?

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The plastic part is the trasnfer case actuator. Here is a diagram of it which is Fig 36-11


It then says refer to Fig 36-09 which is this one


So you can see that it goes back into the transfer case (see 36111T). So it looks like oil is being circulated through the transfer case and the actuator.

Once you have repaired the tube and give the entire area a good clean, drop the transfer case oil and fill it up with new oil.

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

Crikey, mine must have fallen off. It's not there.

[JCAT Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JCAT]

AMTS

thank you so much for replying and the drawings. I think I can now stop panicking.

I will drop the oil and replace same.

Is there a specific brand/type I should be using ?