Ordered a Snorkel for my Jeep.
For water crossings. Been putting it off but it was time. This happened Sunday and thankfully I didn't suck water into my intake.
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Yep, never know how deep the water might be if you can't see the bottom. On a side note, I love our scenic Ozarks.
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I've seen those. So you can drive into the water so that your engine is under water if you have a snorkel?
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I like the looks of them too. They just look cool.
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Almost every SUV in the Northern Territories AUS had them 20 years ago. First time I had ever seen them.
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Turn around, don't drown
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allen griggs: 29738697848859/comments/29738650801051
I've seen those. So you can drive into the water so that your engine is under water if you have a snorkel?
I don't know how far I would want drive with the hood submerged. The goal is to get a bow wave created like such:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obCrB-xN5AIThis is a trail I purposely haven't been doing in Arkansas as I don't have a snorkel. The Gladiator is on 37 inch tires and is crossing the Buffalo River.
I extended my differential breathers the week after I purchased my Jeep.
This is a pretty good video on snorkels + wheeling in the Ozarks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1n18sVfEISide note, I had a snorkel for my 2006 Nissan Frontier but never installed it and sold the vehicle and snorkel separately to friends.
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Snorkels are a big help from preventing hydraulic lock. If you are going into anything deep, even with a snorkel, you better have a diesel.
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Both ends or just one? Not that it really matters with modern rides with all kinds of electronics.
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How do you keep the plugs from shorting out?
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And you drove into the unknown depth water because?????????????????????????????????????????????????
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It seems to me that if you got your engine half way under water that it would be badly damaged.
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allen griggs: 29738697848859/comments/29738682731163
It seems to me that if you got your engine half way under water that it would be badly damaged.
A salty old WWII Vet (motor pool mechanic) that I knew claimed to have unloaded snorkeled jeeps just off the beach while partially standing up to keep his head above water. I didn't have the courage to call BS!
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Well, snorkels must work, or else they would not exist.
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Out here they say 6" of fast flowing water can push your vehicle off the road.
I'm with jimdeer, fish don't bite in flash floods anyway.
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Mobuck: 29738697848859/comments/29738706442907
And you drove into the unknown depth water because?????????????????????????????????????????????????
Because I've driven through that exact spot 6 times previously and never had an issue.
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love2shoot: 29738697848859/comments/29738706359579
How do you keep the plugs from shorting out?
You realize as you drive through the rain that your engine is getting wet. You don't have a sealed engine compartment. Your plugs aren't going to short out.
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He Dog: 29738697848859/comments/29738706653083
Out here they say 6" of fast flowing water can push your vehicle off the road.
I'm with jimdeer, fish don't bite in flash floods anyway.
I'm not dumb enough to drive through a flash flood. But creek crossings exist all over the Ozarks.
Side note, Toyota advertises their factory snorkels as Desert Air Intakes to protect themselves from the liability of someone drowning when they drive their Tacoma into a flash flood.
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cbxjeff: 29738697848859/comments/29738706227867
Snorkels are a big help from preventing hydraulic lock. If you are going into anything deep, even with a snorkel, you better have a diesel.
If you watch that 2nd video, a snorkel is helpful when you 1st enter the crossing and the water is over your hood. You really don't want to drive through anything over the hood. It's not a submarine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm80oswPetc
Here's another video of mine where the water crossing was just under my head lights.0 -
drobs: 29738697848859/comments/29738667893915
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11445553#Comment_11445553
I'm not dumb enough to drive through a flash flood. But creek crossings exist all over the Ozarks.
Side note, Toyota advertises their factory snorkels as Desert Air Intakes to protect themselves from the liability of someone drowning when they drive their Tacoma into a flash flood.
Some of those are pretty serious creeks! I have done a few creek crossings, but not up to my headlights.
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allen griggs: 29738697848859/comments/29738682731163
It seems to me that if you got your engine half way under water that it would be badly damaged.
Most of the creek crossings around here are at most 1 to 2 vehicle lengths in width. The goal is to get cross them quickly. The snorkel is there for the rare oops!
I got it just about finished:
The snorkel comes with a metal trim piece that gets riveted on to the hood. I went with some door trim on the sharp edges and am debating adding the trim piece.
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