Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Hiya Paul! (Where have you been? )

Had a Google, and think that equates to a one way flow valve?

A bolt and a load of mastic is cheaper? :lol:

It's just not worth fitting a snorkel if the air box can fill up with water through the drain hole! I wonder how many people have fitted a snorkel and not plugged the drain hole?!...

Also now looking at the charcoal filter canister I mentioned above as needing a bracket made to support it... it would seem that would need some kind of connection to the breather / snorkel solution?



(Thanks to Martin for the diagram and advice, and Riccy for advice too)

This is the Suzuki FSM test for the charcoal filter... it would seem that COULD also fill with water if the vehicle was left submerged for a prolonged period?... :ohmy:

The snorkel tube arrived with a carrier this morning, so after tea (8:30pm in our our house as the shop currently shuts at 8pm), I slipped out into the garage with a can of Stella and my camera... funny how bemused wives and daughters look at this point?! They simply don't understand do they fellas?!

I had to check it all lined up okay, didn't I?









Held roughly in place... Yup, chuffed with that... good measuring by me and good bending by Tom the "pipe-bender" on eBay...

It will obviously have to sit forward of there once the A-pillar tubes of the "roll cage" / tree protector bar goes in, but you can see rom that that the angles are ok, the tube follows the line of the windscreen in both plains, and then kicks out a little to match the angle of the Southdown snorkel top, as it's designed for the rake of a LandRover Defender windscreen :ohmy: !

As mentioned earlier this is the intended position of it coming through on the passenger side* though -



Just under the "bent" box section of the bonnet slam area, and just behind the front wheel arch... so we look on target for that, and it obviously needs cutting to length to suit, the snorkel head is only a quarter of an inch onto the steel tube for demonstration purposes...

It's 1.5mm thick walled steel tube, so should hold up nicely to the rigours of T&S (Tight and Scratchy) greenlaning that I eventually intend to return to, with Brett and the rest of his little group... And the snorkel head is "only" £24.50 to replace if it gets broken or stolen by those pesky trees that tend to jump out in front of us! :woohoo:

* Brett asked why it's on the passenger (Alan's!) side rather than the traditional driver's side on a Jimny... I explained that it's because (1) I didn't want it in my line of sight, (2) most other 4x4s are on the passenger side, and (3) it was only after constructing the driver's (my!) side of the reshaped bonnet and "wing" that I thought about the snorkel!... :lol:

I'll probably carry on with the snorkel on Wednesday next week when I have a quite quiet day to save disturbing our eldest daughter who works from home in this pandemic, so Sunday I'll hopefully return to welding up the back "trayback" hoop section of the buggy...

More soon

I did intend the snorkel head to be half way up the windscreen / just above the top of the mirror, as by then the half-doors would have let the water in and Alan and I will be disappearing under water!... so I think that would be high enough... time will tell though!



So just after the 10 degree kink in this photo...

Or like this...



(Sorry I don't "do" photoshop, I'm 52!)

I gave myself the day off yesterday

It's been busy in the shop, and I've been working every Wednesday and Sunday on the buggy, so this Sunday I had a nice lie-in, cooked family breakfast, a nice long walk with the dogs, and then caught up with some other things in life, before having a nice steak tea, a few beers and a family movie night...

Back to it on Wednesday though! :woohoo:

X8GGY wrote: (Sorry I don't "do" photoshop, I'm 52!)

Don't worry about it, I can't see where the photos been edited :woohoo:

Your snorkel solution looks neat. I quite like the snorkel head which looks better proportioned than the ones I have seen on the mass produced moulded snorkels. Nice work, can't wait to see it finished.

Just be careful if it's in line off site
you'll be able to hide a double decker bus behind it