XplorerKid
Rolling on 37"s
- Joined
- July 25, 2002
- Messages
- 4,543
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- City, State
- Winter Haven Fl
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1997 Xplorer
A little bit of background-
Ok, so next weekend, Sunday, if i feel upto it, i will be going offroading with Truoffroad. We are going to a place called Holopaw. This place is just mainly mud, and its wet and nasty. Going with us is a bunch of Florida Swamp Buggys, If uou dont know how big these things are, some of them have tires as big as Volkswagen Bugs! Well since ive read and heard this place is just nasty and wet, i figured i needed to do something about my Air Intake, I have a KKM, the KKM is great, but not nessecary the best for mud and water, especially when the mud always fling under the hood or water rushes in. Now i dont expect to go where these Swamp buggys go, nor do i really plan to follow some of the places these jeepers go, I do pretty good, but i dont really want to screw anythign up
. But trust me i will get it nasty, be ready next Monday or sunday night for some pictures.
Well onto the snorkel-
This aint a pretty snorkel, nor is it really a snorkel, but it is an alternative way to having or making a true snorkel, which if i had the money, and could have had that part, the top part from ARB for the snorkel, that i heard takes months to get, i would have made one of them..... But till this summer when i do all of my other Planned Mods, this will get me by.
Pretty much what this does is mounts where my blower motor went, and breathes through the Vents in the dash. I have a hint, make sure you clean ALL the leaves out of that black box, mine was slap full, and make sure you get them ALL! If i didnt clean mine my fileter for this woulda been plugged. Also another reason to get them all, is when i got most of them vaccumed out, what i thought was all, amd i tested the blower motor again, there were still some leaves in there that had broken loose, and there is soemthing or another on there that is some thermal thing, well the leaves got on it and started to smoke, this could be a fire hazzard, the leafs we pulled off of it after it smoked were black and crunchy. See pictures below to see what im taking about.
I did not do a write up on this, becuase i dont think anyone would relaly copy this, as i tihnk its kinda dumb, but hey it works. If you liek this idea and want to copy it, i could make you one, or either make a detailed right up, i saved our template for the metal bracket and everything. If you have any questions please ask.
If you think this is cool, dumb or see a potential problem please let me know, it wont hurt my feelings as i test drove last night and all of today, and didnt have anyproblems, besides in the hot weather the acceleration was a little more sluggish. Also this is only for weekend Major Water/Mudding trips, i will continue to run my KKM daily.
Pics will be below in anoter post.....
Ok, so next weekend, Sunday, if i feel upto it, i will be going offroading with Truoffroad. We are going to a place called Holopaw. This place is just mainly mud, and its wet and nasty. Going with us is a bunch of Florida Swamp Buggys, If uou dont know how big these things are, some of them have tires as big as Volkswagen Bugs! Well since ive read and heard this place is just nasty and wet, i figured i needed to do something about my Air Intake, I have a KKM, the KKM is great, but not nessecary the best for mud and water, especially when the mud always fling under the hood or water rushes in. Now i dont expect to go where these Swamp buggys go, nor do i really plan to follow some of the places these jeepers go, I do pretty good, but i dont really want to screw anythign up
. But trust me i will get it nasty, be ready next Monday or sunday night for some pictures. Well onto the snorkel-
This aint a pretty snorkel, nor is it really a snorkel, but it is an alternative way to having or making a true snorkel, which if i had the money, and could have had that part, the top part from ARB for the snorkel, that i heard takes months to get, i would have made one of them..... But till this summer when i do all of my other Planned Mods, this will get me by.
Pretty much what this does is mounts where my blower motor went, and breathes through the Vents in the dash. I have a hint, make sure you clean ALL the leaves out of that black box, mine was slap full, and make sure you get them ALL! If i didnt clean mine my fileter for this woulda been plugged. Also another reason to get them all, is when i got most of them vaccumed out, what i thought was all, amd i tested the blower motor again, there were still some leaves in there that had broken loose, and there is soemthing or another on there that is some thermal thing, well the leaves got on it and started to smoke, this could be a fire hazzard, the leafs we pulled off of it after it smoked were black and crunchy. See pictures below to see what im taking about.
I did not do a write up on this, becuase i dont think anyone would relaly copy this, as i tihnk its kinda dumb, but hey it works. If you liek this idea and want to copy it, i could make you one, or either make a detailed right up, i saved our template for the metal bracket and everything. If you have any questions please ask.
If you think this is cool, dumb or see a potential problem please let me know, it wont hurt my feelings as i test drove last night and all of today, and didnt have anyproblems, besides in the hot weather the acceleration was a little more sluggish. Also this is only for weekend Major Water/Mudding trips, i will continue to run my KKM daily.
Pics will be below in anoter post.....
