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Sick of drowning. Went and built myself a snorkel!

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Old 05-08-2011, 10:18 AM
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Here's the pics, sorry it took so long, had a lot going on





Old 05-08-2011, 11:07 AM
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You should sell it on Ebay as the alternative to other 500 dlls Snorkel haha
Old 05-23-2011, 06:40 PM
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Modded the snorkel after tearing the bracket up on a real narrow overgrown trail. Seemed like most suggestions leaned toward getting the pipe to match the windshield angle. I agreed with that 100%. Did a lil research and found that the PVC can be heated with a torch and bent. I did a couple practice runs on the left over piece and figured that it takes about 2min of moving the heat around before the pipe becomes pliable and once bent, has to be kept in position before it cools. As not to end up with a kink on the inside I made more of a mandrel bend by leaving the inside and pulling the pipe a bit to stretch the outside to achieve the necessary bend. I dodged the kink but ended up with some nasty stretch marks. Oh well, I intended to Herculine it to match the rest of the damn truck any ways! Now it's more solid than ever and looks like it was made to hug the truck. I know I'm gonna catch hell for the twisted snorkel head but it looks better that it did slightly cocked. It's also a lil lower and less likely to get ripped off at that angle. It took a minute but grew on me. Next is to rip out all that flex pipe and run a single piece of flex straight to the air box to minimize possible joint failure.



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Old 09-16-2011, 06:37 AM
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Looks great. I am considering the same thing. i replaced factory carb with racing carb so i dont have an air box. that is the only thing i have to figure out. your revision makes sence.
Old 09-16-2011, 06:53 AM
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did you do anything as far as electrical or vaccum hoses? i wanna do something similar
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