Snorkel options...

[hammermachine]

The 4x4 club I joined has told me that I'm going to need to build a snorkel for my K5. Currently I have a K&N 4 inch wide filter sitting in a Summit air cleaner, which is not good for mudding. Does anybody have any designs or know where to go to find out how to build one. I am still a novice at this and need any advice I can get.

 

[steve_kibbe]

Try these

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[Banner44]

Don't mean to hijack.. and I'm sure this is a stupid question with an obvious answer... but every snorkel I've seen points to the front... what happens when you are on the highway / trail during a thunderstorm / huge puddle? I would imagine after awhile you are getting tons of water down the tube. I wouldn't think you would get very far with a waterlogged air filter or worse.


/hijack

 

[dremu]

Don't mean to hijack.. and I'm sure this is a stupid question with an obvious answer... but every snorkel I've seen points to the front... what happens when you are on the highway / trail during a thunderstorm / huge puddle? I would imagine after awhile you are getting tons of water down the tube. I wouldn't think you would get very far with a waterlogged air filter or worse.


/hijack

Personally I question the frequent need of these things. I see a LOT of very shiny Land Rovers and Toyotas with these giant monstrosities on them, and all it does, IMHO, is block the driver's vision and make the trucks look silly.

Anyway, one thing I've seen from the desert people is to run the intake into the cab... if you were playing U-Boat Commander you'd still want to run the intake UP above the water level, but the air inside is cleaner and easier to filter.

I suppose at high speeds the air would get sucked *away* from a snorkel pointed to the rear of the vehicle, which is why they get painted forward.

Ideally, I imagine, you'd have it shaped like a question mark, i.e. folded over all the way DOWN at the top, so as not to suck up anything other than air.

Again, however, my experience is that the vast majority of snorkels, especially the commercially available kits, are aimed at the mall crawler crowd. (Doing it yourself with parts from Home Depot is not only rednecked and un-stylish, but technically superior )

-- A

 

[hammermachine]

U-Boat Captain

LOL, I never planned on building one, until the club told me that I was heading for trouble without one. I hope to find out this week or next when we go out. Most places in NJ are swamp like or sandy, so I think they are right. I'll probally build one and go to it.

 

[cabledawg]

(Doing it yourself with parts from Home Depot is not only rednecked and un-stylish, but technically superior )

-- A

So very true!

 

[xtrmjoe]

I got some 4" pvc from homey d as well as a 4" rubber coupler that mates the metal airbox right to the pvc. I also sealed the airbox and distributor(with vent) and raised all the breather tubes, axles, tranny, tcase. It was on of the best and cheapest mods I have done and the sucker has had water over the hood several times with no ill effects.
It aint pretty but it works.
I hydrolocked a motor and never want to deal with that again.

 

[NorCalKid]

Time to Hijack

Anyone run their filter in the cab? I am thinking of doing mine this way, just think it might be a little loud. Not that the truck is very quiet to begin with just like to hear the radio

 

[oneofthefewbmx]

Don't mean to hijack.. and I'm sure this is a stupid question with an obvious answer... but every snorkel I've seen points to the front... what happens when you are on the highway / trail during a thunderstorm / huge puddle? I would imagine after awhile you are getting tons of water down the tube. I wouldn't think you would get very far with a waterlogged air filter or worse.


/hijack

my buddy's safari-snorkel had a top that could swivel....he turned it where ever he thought was best at the time....

 

[oneofthefewbmx]

oh and for the record.....snorkels look bad ass....good luck water-proofing everything else tho...distributor, ECU, wiring, tranny and t-case....and dont let your **** DIE under-water unless you have stacks as well....

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Just to stick up for the Aussies (as they invented the modern, commercial snorkle) the ARB/Safari Snorkel approved method is to just point it forwards for slow moving and general driving and in very dusty, torrential downpour, and other extreme situations you just turn it so it faces rearwards.

Try and find some of the Aussie 4x4 mags and you'll notice all the competition or general wheeling trucks have them pointed forwards in the pics and then the long range desert trucks have them pointed rearwards in the dusty pics.

Personally I question the frequent need of these things. I see a LOT of very shiny Land Rovers and Toyotas with these giant monstrosities on them, and all it does, IMHO, is block the driver's vision and make the trucks look silly.

Anyway, one thing I've seen from the desert people is to run the intake into the cab... if you were playing U-Boat Commander you'd still want to run the intake UP above the water level, but the air inside is cleaner and easier to filter.

I suppose at high speeds the air would get sucked *away* from a snorkel pointed to the rear of the vehicle, which is why they get painted forward.

Ideally, I imagine, you'd have it shaped like a question mark, i.e. folded over all the way DOWN at the top, so as not to suck up anything other than air.

Again, however, my experience is that the vast majority of snorkels, especially the commercially available kits, are aimed at the mall crawler crowd. (Doing it yourself with parts from Home Depot is not only rednecked and un-stylish, but technically superior )

-- A