Thread: makeshift snorkle

Funny thing happened on the weekend up in the Yarra State Forest with the AULRO Vic boys, two of the boys went though a decent puddle, one died in the middle and the other died just as he came out of the hole.... both due to the electrics getting wet or it might of been condensation, in both case's we needed a bit of WD40 on the disty caps to get them going again. Both had snorkel too !!!!

Have a look at the videos.....


http://www.bordignons.net/disco/trips/aulr...erience_LOW.wmv

http://www.bordignons.net/disco/trips/aulr...erience_LOW.wmv

http://www.bordignons.net/disco/trips/aulr...erience_LOW.wmv

Matt.

For <$200 why bother risking an engine rebuild?

Any precaution is better than being stranded witha siezed engine.
There are also a few electrical tricks you can do to help the petrol engines from dieing.

Dave.

Good to see we got a bit of a banter going on this one. My experiences have been only with diesel, I shudder to think of what could go wrong in a petrol engine car when all the electrics get wet. At least my diesel kept on going.
The funny part about going through water is that it is an unknown, you think you are doing everything right then out of the blue something goes wrong.
I wish I could find the link in the Vict pajero site , someone put a post on a few years ago regarding the benefits of having a snorkel and the relative flow rates of the air and so on, it was a good read, convinced me to leave the system as it was, as I too was thinking of going the way of the elephant.
But at the end of the day, providing nothing goes wrong , its all good fun.

john

I decided to fit one to my 3.9 Rangie after a friend drowned the engine with water in cylinders by driving through a big puddle on an outback road at 80KMH. looked shallow was deep.
The 3.5 and 3.9 injection air intake is a sitter for water ingestion. I have also seen 2 cars stall and fill ,out of a group of 12 through a deep water crossing. (Good old Yalwal creek). Both were 3.9 Rangies.

After buying the snorkel, I tested the airflow restriction by tapping the aircleaner before the filter, and measuring with a 0-30 inches of Water Minihelic pressure gauge. The MAXIMUM restriction is 8 inches of water at max revs in first up a steep hill. Under any other circumstances there is NO restriction. There may be a ram effect at speed but I have not tried to measure it. 8 inches is not much, and said by experts to be worth 1% power.
I reckon its cheap insurance, and if you are worried about restriction you can always have an alternate intake, and only connect the snorkel for off road.
I also have now bought a Donaldson centrifugal pre cleaner , which I will only fit on dusty trips.
Regards Philip A

Originally posted by DaveS3
For <$200 why bother risking an engine rebuild?

Any precaution is better than being stranded witha siezed engine.
There are also a few electrical tricks you can do to help the petrol engines from dieing.

Dave.

hey dave

just wondering what other elec tricks you can do. have heard of spraying wd 40 over the electrics as a temporary thing. dont really like water but like a bit of mud.

Originally posted by rangerovin

just wondering what other elec tricks you can do. have heard of spraying wd 40 over the electrics as a temporary thing. dont really like water but like a bit of mud.

On HS I sealed the dizzy shut (points activated) and insulated the coil connections with silecone.

Moved vunerable relays high as possible.

Made sure all the engine gaskets are good and there's no method "gunk" can enter the crankcase or fuel system like down a breather tube.

These simple mods have worked in the few paddles it's been for so far.

Spot in the money.

Another thing i did was to put the coil in a tupperware container on the firewall.

Dave

This is the one I made for my '86 Rangie.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/thebecketts...mod.htm#snorkel

Ron