BravoNovember

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Might be a proper noob question, but I passed a disco today in the torrential rain and thunder we had with a snorkel with the air ram bit facing forwards.

Looking at the rain slamming on my windscreen as I was driving along...
Got me thinking... what’s to stop rain being rammed down there as you drive along? Especially if you were on a motorway or something? Would it be enough to lunch your engine???
 
For those that actually have the snorkel plumbed in!

There is a drain at the lowest point of the air intake plumbing that is supposedly designed to be one-way, thereby allowing you to wade - although a properly plumbed in snorkel recommends this drain point being sealed as they are prone to failure (brittle rubber etc)

The safari style snorkel is designed to be reversible to prevent dust ingress more than rain, though the mushroom top versions don’t enjoy this luxury - both don’t have a big enough aperture to allow significant water ingress. Although following a truck in a monsoon of spray recently did make my Td5 a bit wheezy.....
 
Might be a proper noob question, but I passed a disco today in the torrential rain and thunder we had with a snorkel with the air ram bit facing forwards.

Looking at the rain slamming on my windscreen as I was driving along...
Got me thinking... what’s to stop rain being rammed down there as you drive along? Especially if you were on a motorway or something? Would it be enough to lunch your engine???

That would take some really heavy rain to even consider but most likely it would just be soaked up by the filter and clog it.
 
For those that actually have the snorkel plumbed in!

There is a drain at the lowest point of the air intake plumbing that is supposedly designed to be one-way, thereby allowing you to wade - although a properly plumbed in snorkel recommends this drain point being sealed as they are prone to failure (brittle rubber etc)

The safari style snorkel is designed to be reversible to prevent dust ingress more than rain, though the mushroom top versions don’t enjoy this luxury - both don’t have a big enough aperture to allow significant water ingress. Although following a truck in a monsoon of spray recently did make my Td5 a bit wheezy.....

Do people really fit them without plumbing them in? So the are just like the spotlights on a Lambretta.
 
The disco 1 I had before this truck had lost the hose that connected the snorkel to the air box at some point in its prior life in the hills around cheddar. Snorkel looked good but it was basically a length of drainpipe up the side in reality.
 
Sometimes you find this !!...LOL.

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Cheers
 
Do people really fit them without plumbing them in? So the are just like the spotlights on a Lambretta.

Very common, as is having a winch bolted on the front and it not being wired in :rolleyes:

Interesting how many you check when off roading in the mud and water and find they do not stall the engine when sealed off.:p:p

Cheers

Mine sucks the hoses flat and then splutters to a stop.
 
There was a time when it was considered advantageous to have some moisture entering the intake, thereby improving the density of the air/fuel charge :p
 
Did it bend the chassis in the process?
nb: they all look better without 'bars & attract less attention from the anti-FWD brigade :(
Nah was too rusty for that and came right off. Problem was it was in a bomb hole at the time and full of water. I thought I had clipped it onto the recovery point but didn't. Got it out in the end.
 

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