Home made snorkle, built for under $50 / EUR35. And I think it looks good for a home made one on my Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 :-) (Reggae tune is from: Free Royalty Free Music by Danosongs.com)
What a great video, and what a great snorkle. It looks very pro. Well done I think a trip down the hardwear store and get some black plastic water pipe and fittings at the weekend.
very nice design! im planning on building one for my truck but i have a few questions first. 1: does it take on water if its raining or does it have a system to let it out? and 2: if im taking off my factory air box, should there be a filter inside of this...? or how does the filtration work?
@supdog2112 Thanx, man. 1) No. After the air goes through the slits, it has to go up to enter the 3 inch inner pipe. The rain that comes through the slits, just streams down AROUND the inner pipe and goes out again through a hole that I drilled in the bottom of the "head". And the few raindrops that go into the inner pipe through the extra air holes, can't do any harm. 2) But why would you take out your factory airbox? Just leave it intact. No extra filtration needed.
Depends. I think that if you isolate the electrics from the water, shouldn't be a problem. I have seen an old Land Cruiser gasoline in Venezuela driving through muddy water that came up to its windshield!
@psynthpriest I'm not an expert either, but I was thinking, if there was no pre-filter before, why should I install a pre-filter now? Normally when my standard filter is filthy, I clean it with water and dishwashing soap, just under the faucet, and that works perfect. And now and then I renew the filter.
@lukeman108 That's the thing. It almost costs nothing! And by the way, we did a 8000 km trip with it through the jungle and savanna of Guyana and Brazil, and the savanna, mountains and beaches of Venezuela, and afterwards also in the jungle and the savanna of Suriname. Not even a scratch! And it caught a lot of branches. I even dare to say it is stronger than a Safari snorkel. So please stop yammering about this snorkel and let me enjoy what I can afford.
Looks pretty awesome! Thinking of trying it on my '79/'80/'81 pickup... but... Has anyone tried this in an area that gets a lot of snow & ice? I'm worried about it icing up when it's just below freezing etc. I was also thinking of having the top piece turn 180° so that the water droplets should fall down & against the direction of airflow... but if no one is having any issues with this maybe there's no sense putting more turns in it. ??
@supdog2112 You're welcome. Oh, by the way, you can't see it on the video, but in between the lower bracket and the pipe, where the hose clamps are, I put some soft, rubber like stuff, with two holes in it for the bolt heads. Otherwise the pipe would crack on the bolt heads. And don't forget fluid sealant or something like that where you connect the flexible hose, to prevent water leakage. Success! :-)
At .50seconds I like your vice holding the pipe when you were sawing the slit, just a bit of advice watch ya family jewels mate, cos one slip an they're gone. HAHA.
@BLOTTUK Yeah, why would you spend 500 pounds for a Safari snorkel, right? :-) Good luck with the build. Don't forget to put fluid gasket or something like that in between the pipes and the flexible hose.
warmest regards from Italy Florence a question about the snorkel I see many snorkels on many off-road vehicles that have the mushroom pipe turned towards the rear of the 4x4 off-road vehicle and does anyone have the mushroom pipe turned towards the front of the 4x4 off-road vehicle? (and some off-road vehicles Does the 4x4 have a cyclone mushroom like an agricultural or earthmoving machine?) Christmas 2023 from Italy Florence!)
Sunny regards back! 🙂 Haha, the old discussion about what's best. I don't think it makes a difference. There are people who say that if you turn it forward, the driving wind rams some extra air into the engine, a kind of week turbo, zo to say, but 4x4's drive way to slow to make in difference regarding that. The most important thing is that you don't get water into the snorkle, so in that perspective backwards is robably the best.
+Endie P In the video I am showing what I'm going to do with that top, and there you can see all the parts that I use. Oh, and don't forget to drill a little hole in the bottom of the "pot", as a drain for the rain water. Success! :-)
Hey, Fern, I'm no "sir". That's my father :-) You're welcome, man. I made the vid because a lot af people think they only can have a good working and nice snorkel when they spend a lot of money. Like if you don't have a Safari, you have nothing. Have fun with it. And your pictures would be welcome!
Home made snorkels are easy to make. They can also work very well. However, it is just an insurance policy for the engine.... To truly ford water without receiving damage you'll need to waterproof it. I.E; electrical comments and so on...
Ehm... That was 4 years ago and I sold the truck, so I don't know precisely... But actually everything I used is in the video, Les. There is not more to it. the only thing I forgot to mention, is that I drilled a hole in the underside of the intake at the top, to get rid of the raining water.
Les Trainor Only 14 and already working on your own Bronco?! Great, dude! Keep on wrenching. By the way, have you seen the video about my daughter who is revising the brakes of my previous Cruiser? 17 year old girl repairs Land Cruiser!
im planning the same but with material from Donaldson Filter Solution. they have cool suff and are not expensive. They have dealers around the world, not like Safari. Safari is sold only few countries and expensive .
+Endie P I'm sorry, man, but that's too long ago... :-( I don't even have that Cruiser anymore. As far as I know, everything is in the video. But what do you think you miss?
Hola, Luis! I'm sorry, I would like to tell you, but that was 6 years ago. I really don't remember. The only thing I think I remember, though, is that they were 4 inch in diamater. I think :-)
Aesthetics aside just keep in mind that PVC is pretty brittle when new and it becomes more so with age. I reckon you could have done it in SS for not too much more with the right know how.
+11apples100 You can't get real stainless steel piping in Suriname, and even the "unreal" SS is many times more expensive than PVC. Life is hard and complicated in the jungle! :-)
+DoubleUThings Well shit. I had no idea you were way down there. I guess you're right. I've used fence posts to repair broken axles before so I can sympathise. Some of the rigs down here in Australia have some VERY makeshift gear and they get the job done.
+11apples100 Australia? Yeah, well, in far away places you have to be inventive to survive, right? Yesterday we just finished two years of traveling with a little newer 80-series Land Cruiser through South America (see other videos), including the high Andes Mountains, the Amazone jungle, and Patagonia, and sometimes I had to repair stuff and barf up solutions while in the middle of a desert or places where you only meet one car per day. So fence posts to repair an axle?! Hahaha! Yes, why not?!
DoubleUThings My only concern is that my engine is different, and that I am not sure what I have to connect it to. Plus which holes I have to plug up. I have seen different ways that people have done it. But they do not mention which areas they had to plug. That is a bummer. Right now I have to replace the valve cover and rise the rpms while idling, so I can smog it.
Watch this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-smxmjoyxZMU.html Maybe you can use a big truck cooling hose for the connection with the air intake.
I didn't put a filter in the top, James, because I just used the standard filter under the hood. The only other shocking thing I did to the Cruiser, was add a 2LO to it. Simple modification you can do in half an hour. Very handy for very steep asphalt or concrete slopes. But I already sold the 60. We now have a 1997 Lexus LX450 (Land Cruiser 80), whith which we travel all of South America at the moment. See www.losersinalexus.nl for video blogs or DoubleUthings, my channel on RU-vid.
Kit for my truck is over $1k, diy is my only option, how does the custom snorkel cap handle in the rain? The ones I've seen for sale have drip vents coming out the back
This is at the right wait for me as well as I have a 2 l turbo diesel Suzuki Grand Vitara and it's hard to find snorkel kits for it so making a customer snorkel seems like my only option not less I want to spend $500 on one for a custom shop
Well, many people I know, don't want one, because they are not really reliable :-) Great offroader though, but lot's of problems when overlanding. And you don't want to get stuck in the middle of a desert because some parts just give up.
Oh, wait! I misunderstood you :-) You mean making a snorkle for a Landrover too? Well, we are living in Europe again, where we can't afford driving in a large 4x4, so no snorkles for me at the moment :-)
@@igor6388 :-) Maar het klopt helemaal wat je zei, haha! Toen we dit ding ergens in the jungle in een oude schuur vonden, was hij half weggeroest! Er zitten heel wat kilo's nieuw plaatstaal in!
@@igor6388 Ik vind het nog steeds een waanzinnig gave bak. Hij is ondertussen door de nieuwe eigenaar brandweerrood gespoten en volgens mij wordt hij amper meer gebruikt. We hebben daarna een 80-serie gekocht en daar twee jaar mee door Zuid-Amerika gereisd. Heerlijk, zo'n 4x4. In Nederland niet te betalen, maar in Suri kost het geen drol. 79 euro verzekering per jaar en geen wegenbelasting :D
