snorkel

hey after a recent trip to wales iv decided to purchas/fabricate a snorkel for my x reg jimny any ideas of best place to buy parts or complete kit on the cheap new or second hand ? cheers

Hi mate it all depends of your budget really. There is one on eBay for about £160 I think or you could get some pipe from B&Q or some exhaust pipe. I would save up for a propper snorkel to be honest but it depends on how you want it to look.

I was about to start a thread on the same subject!
There's a spanish company that knock them out for about £90ish. They emailed me back in good time and their next batch is due shortly. They look like good quality efforts.

I have been looking at being able to knock something up that will still look tidy. None of this drainpipe lark! I had a thought that you could remove the airbox and link directly to the inlet hose, into the wing and route the pipe inside the wing as with the short snorkels. Use a 90deg silicone hose to join it at the bottom of the a pillar, run a length of stainless up the a pillar and top with a cone filter. I can't see any reason why it would look shonky if put together properly, i know plenty of people running them in a similiar way when a cage prevents the fitting of a moulded snorkel.
For under £30 it could easily be achieved, I'm itching to fit a snorkel to finish a couple of other jobs - wiring my roof lights up and my breathers, i'm running the light wiring behind the snorkel out of sight.

Yes mate I made one with a mate for his Disco with some stainless pipe and a K&N style filter on top u think it cost him about £25.
Thanks
James

also have a look at jimnybits

www.jimnybits.co.uk/shop/jimny/jimny-snorkel/prod_24.html

some cracking ideas guys thankyou

Not much difference between £25 and £169:ohmy:

after alot of thinkng over diffrent ideas from silcone tube exsaust tube suction pipe ect i have fabricated a snorkel out of drain pipe i brought some 50mm tume and various fittings from b and q iv seen some retty nastey diy jobs but am very happy with how it turned out i have pics if any 1 is intrested

Yep post pics, Its always good to see other peoples modifications, I had a drainpipe snorkle on my last off roader and it held out to lots of abuse.

russell wrote: after alot of thinkng over diffrent ideas from silcone tube exsaust tube suction pipe ect i have fabricated a snorkel out of drain pipe i brought some 50mm tume and various fittings from b and q iv seen some retty nastey diy jobs but am very happy with how it turned out i have pics if any 1 is intrested

thats what i done, bought some 90 and 45 joints too. with 50mm and painted it black

i would like to see a pic

right i started by removing the air cleaner and inner wing i removed the originaol air intake i saved the rubber 90 dergree end witch usally points to the head lamp area you can see in the pics that a 50mm straight b and q drain pipe fitting fits into the air into rubber really snug and with a libral coating of silicone its very watter tight, i then fitted the rubber 90 degree from the original intake pipe to the end of the newly fitted stump on the air cleaner i then routed the drain pipe in side the wing 3 no degree fittings and a 145 to bring the tube out of the wing and up the a post i made a small bracket with i rivited inside the a post and onto the tube i cut the original air intake so i had a nice 90 and ritted a robin relaiant heater filter to the inside to give me a safari snorkel stlye grill to stop leaves or sparows ending up in m y air cleaner i then siliconed all the joints and tested with easy start i used proper gutter glue to glue the pipe fittings together so i should be very water tight fingers crossed