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Calling all river rats or how to water proof a Blazer!

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OK here is the questions. :bow:

What do you do to make a Blazer safe for fording rivers. Water like in Dante's Peak.

Where do you relocate the breathers to.

What do you do to the engine besides a snorkel.

The inside of the truck would be just a stock dash and stock seats.

The vehicle would of been a work in progress basically a 350 TBI; Automatic trany (you pick trany and why you would use it) Dana 60's with 35" (a good all around tire but more off road than street. Give me a brand and style)

Here is how it would break down. The owner has been building the truck for five years. Owner is ex soldier (army) served in first Gulf War. Heads out from the city (lives in a big city on east coast) for the Rocky Mountains.

The world is going to hell and the truck needs to be able to ford rivers.

I know some are asking what I am doing and why the frell is he asking these question. :confused: Some of you know I write and I am working on a screen play and you all have just become my think tank. :doah:
 
Seal the computer but with a vent or breather of sorts
run all vent's to a high central spot, rears ,tranny, t-case probally to where the snorkel is.
snorkel
silicon the distributer cap
route exhaust up high
good sealed gas tank
no carpet :D
 
should silicon every electrical connection.. bat terminals, alt. terminals, bus blocks, and any other electrical terminals that aren't already sealed up somehow. Scrub the wire harness for anywhere anyone used a butt-connector (the crimp type) and get them sealed up too. A few drain holes in the floor would help.. cause water will find a way in anyways, so might as well have a good way for it to get back out. Putting in an electric fan with a fan-kill switch is also a must if you ask me. And make sure all your vent hoses are in good shape and connections are good, then route them up your snorkle. Don't need to worry about exaust untill your engine quits or stalls while you're in the water... then you'll wish you'd have routed it up high like said.
 
I'm tryin to think of places to seal. I'm gonna say the tranny fill tube but it should already be sealed with the grommet it sits in. For the tranny i'd say go with the 350 turbo cause they are pretty easy to find if something is to happen and are cheaper to rebuild if need be than a 700r-4.
Here's a pic from my time in the river. All i had to do was seal up the distributor, breather and run the vents higher on the axles...(even though one popped off and the rear axle filled with water)


There's a big hole right in front and the blazer went down another foot :D
 
If your just writing, make it what you want. I saw in a movie a truck drive across lava, just take it from there. Make it from some spaceage metal able to stop bullets.
 
distributor with silicone and an inner tube..alternator somehow. silicone every gasket in the truck, snorkel, stacks, breathers high high in the truck. if there is a leak in any part of the truck water can get in. etc.
 
The electric fan is a must. Connections sealed of course. Like they said, find every electrical connection and seal it. That will require removing the dash, but if you plan on water being high enough to need a snorkel... As far as the vent tubes go, I once saw a guy that turned his cage into a vent tube. Ran tubing to the bottom of the cage, tapped in brass fittings and hooked the tubing there. Then drilled a hole in the top.

GM4wheeling said that water will find a way in anyway, and he's right. And it's a good thing. If your cab is water proof it will act like a boat. The engine compartment is not water proof and that's a lot of weight. You would turn into a bobber.
 
if you use silicone , make sure it doesn't smell like vinegar, if it does, it will corrode the copper in the contacts.
 
If the world is going to hell, as in zombies.

Just run over as many as you can, pile them into the water, and use them as a bridge. problem solved. :bow:
 
habitatxskate said:
haha at least you didn't sink like i did!

also had this in my bookmarks
http://trucks.about.com/cs/4x4offroad/a/offroad_driving.htm
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Plenty of information there and gives me an ideal of what it can do and how hi the water can go. Now what kind of tires should his truck use? remember he is driving it across country. In the story I have him going back into town and he gets tires just as the manure hits the oscillating device. I was thinking something like the old commando tires from the 1970's.

Once I get this rolling I will put it in the lounge for you guys to see. I have a nice check coming in January from a story I sold. :D

Also he ends up with four drums of gas that he takes into the mountains with him when he comes back after five months. I am thinking a hand pump or high volume 12 volt for getting it out of the ground at a service station.
 
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what was it aboutttttt

and beater skinny tires and then some nice super swamper boggers, if that isn't a good idea, you can go all terrains or mud terrains
 
habitatxskate said:
what was it aboutttttt
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Sci fi Demonic end of the world poltergeist meets the night stalker (old 1974 one). A rich kid discovers a vortex in to another dimension and it opens to revel the fore coming end of the world in which Evil triumphs. The father is a multi million dollar business man. He assembles a task force of scientist and religious people as well as a group of paranormal investigators. He calls a press conference in one of his offices (a high rise tower). During the conference one of the security guards turns into a vampire like creature.

Enter our hero a bumbling tabloid reporter based on Darren McGavin'sCarl Kolchak.

darren24.jpg


He kicks a leg off a table runs with it shoving it in to the guards chest. He then turns and says "See they do exist! You all thought I was crazy. But see see there real."

And so the battle began. I got $500 for it and if it ever gets made into a movie I get 5% net off it.
 
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