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Old Dec 3, 2003 | 06:39 PM
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Originally posted by WATRD
No problem. The install is pretty easy, thanks largely to the great instructions and template from ARB. The most stressful part was cutting that big hole through the fender, otherwise it was a walk in the park.

Watch it though... it changes how others look at your rig. You will get stopped in parking lots and asked at stoplights what it does. 99% of folks seem to get it, others comment "if you wanted a submarine, you should have gotten a submarine" or words that that effect...
I have noticed 2 hillbillys looking at my rig and frowning at me like "why would you put that on that?" then I look at their mullet, and nasty Ford on giant tires, that is going nowhere and just smile back. mostly though people just stare at how huge it is.
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Old Dec 3, 2003 | 06:43 PM
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Originally posted by INsr5runner
mostly though people just stare at how huge it is.
Tryin to make up for somethin else eh?
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Old Dec 3, 2003 | 06:47 PM
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Originally posted by Toyo_Runner96
Tryin to make up for somethin else eh?
listen here "tiny feet"
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Old Dec 3, 2003 | 07:13 PM
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Originally posted by INsr5runner
I have noticed 2 hillbillys looking at my rig
C'mon...only 2?
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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 09:33 AM
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Back when I drowned my truck, I looked into getting a snorkel, but that thing is just way too big. There has got to be a way of simplifying it, and making it smaller. Or maybe a way of making it a bolt on thing, that you attach when going wheeling, and then remove when your not wheeling. and in its place is like a patch of some kind.

I would be afraid of parking it somewhere and someone pouring their starbucks coffee down the pipe, just to see what would happen.

On a side note, I would really like to see pics of sschafer on something other then rocks in Az.

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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 09:36 AM
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Back when I drowned my truck, I looked into getting a snorkel, but that thing is just way too big. There has got to be a way of simplifying it, and making it smaller. Or maybe a way of making it a bolt on thing, that you attach when going wheeling, and then remove when your not wheeling. and in its place is like a patch of some kind.
Enter my glovebox snorkel concept

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/show...x&pagenumber=2
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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 10:13 AM
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I fitted one from a Taco to my Runner shortly after a hydrlocked it. Fit like a glove and was very simple with only 3 main parts. The snorkle and the winch both paid for themselfs on the first trail run.
I have the deckplate mod and put it on wen I go offroad.
The glove box idea is cool but it has a very annoying sucking sound

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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 10:18 AM
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Originally posted by sdastg1
On a side note, I would really like to see pics of sschafer on something other then rocks in Az.
This is just begging for that picture of Steve stuck in the mud because he has no idea what he is doing.
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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 10:38 AM
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Originally posted by Hyperlite
The glove box idea is cool but it has a very annoying sucking sound
Yeah, thats why I came up with adding a T-Cuttoff. A lot of hot-rodders use them to switch from using a street legal exhause to basically no exhaust at all. They are air tight so they woudl wrok for water too. My plan was to use one to switch from the glovebox snorkel to the stock intake. There are T-cuttoffs that work off switches...so it would be fairly easy to just say "hey, im going through some water...snorkel time" flick the switch and go. Then flick it again...and back to stock.

Anyway, it sounded pretty cool. My roommate drew up the plans and everything, but we never had the tools to get it done.
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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 12:48 PM
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Originally posted by 44Runner
This is just begging for that picture of Steve stuck in the mud because he has no idea what he is doing.
I must have missed this post! where was that pic???
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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 01:25 PM
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Smells like...

...blackmail!

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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 01:57 PM
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Originally posted by 44Runner
This is just begging for that picture of Steve stuck in the mud because he has no idea what he is doing.

pic please
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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 02:13 PM
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Old Dec 4, 2003 | 02:16 PM
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Originally posted by 44Runner
This is just begging for that picture of Steve stuck in the mud because he has no idea what he is doing.
The one that made him go out and get a front locker? or the one where he had a front locker and still got stuck? Twas a long time ago...cant exactly remember what happened?
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Old Dec 5, 2003 | 04:18 AM
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You will get stopped in parking lots and asked at stoplights what it does. 99% of folks seem to get it, others comment "if you wanted a submarine, you should have gotten a submarine" or words that that effect...
that's so funny!
Around here it's like everyone ticked all the boxes on the "optional accessories" form... even the 4wd shopping trolleys have them.
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