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3rd Gen Snorkel arrived!
Hi all,
my snorkel has arrived today, and with it the roughtrax coils.Needless to say it wasn't easy: couriers, customs, more couriers, more duties to pay....anyway it is all here and I am ready to go. Roughtax were very good in helping me with shipping the coil springs to South Africa. Then from there to Malawi it took some creative tinking!
The snorkel is a chinese copy of the safari 143 HF, meant for the Oz and South African KZ-TE pickup, 167series.
I guess it is not dissimilar from the "group buy" snorkels you guys are getting from Mike?
There are no instructions but a good template and all the bits seem to be there. I would be very grateful if someone who has fitted one before could clarify a cple of things.
1)I have found several threads showing the holes in the wing etc, but nothing about connecting the inner part of the snorkel to the airbox (3rd Gen diesel). Since the position of the main hole in the wing, as by template, is close to the air filter housing, I thought it would go straight in there somehow. However the bits provided and the shape of the snorkel seem to suggest that is has to run all the way down to the passenger's side headlamp,and join to the existing air intake. Is this the case?
2) While I can possibly double guess where most parts would go, there is a metal washer type thing, 2 and 1/2 " in diameter, as shown in the picture, that I have no idea about. I thought it might be the washer that goes at the top of the main snorkel body, just before the head, to reduce noise, but it is too small. The top of the main pipe, by the ramhead attachment, is much too big for it. Also there is no guttering or anything, inside the pipe, that would keep it in its place... The Ramhead itself is too big for it to fit in it.
Other than that the quality looks good, quite solid, UV 8 rated (apparently claims by ARB that LLDPE can be higher UV spec are unfounded, 8 is the max that the industry accepts): this matters in these climate. Considering it's a third of the cost of a TJM or ARB one , I am quite pleased.
I ' ll post some pictures if I get round to fit it sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Some advise from someone who has fitted one before would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
my snorkel has arrived today, and with it the roughtrax coils.Needless to say it wasn't easy: couriers, customs, more couriers, more duties to pay....anyway it is all here and I am ready to go. Roughtax were very good in helping me with shipping the coil springs to South Africa. Then from there to Malawi it took some creative tinking!
The snorkel is a chinese copy of the safari 143 HF, meant for the Oz and South African KZ-TE pickup, 167series.
I guess it is not dissimilar from the "group buy" snorkels you guys are getting from Mike?
There are no instructions but a good template and all the bits seem to be there. I would be very grateful if someone who has fitted one before could clarify a cple of things.
1)I have found several threads showing the holes in the wing etc, but nothing about connecting the inner part of the snorkel to the airbox (3rd Gen diesel). Since the position of the main hole in the wing, as by template, is close to the air filter housing, I thought it would go straight in there somehow. However the bits provided and the shape of the snorkel seem to suggest that is has to run all the way down to the passenger's side headlamp,and join to the existing air intake. Is this the case?
2) While I can possibly double guess where most parts would go, there is a metal washer type thing, 2 and 1/2 " in diameter, as shown in the picture, that I have no idea about. I thought it might be the washer that goes at the top of the main snorkel body, just before the head, to reduce noise, but it is too small. The top of the main pipe, by the ramhead attachment, is much too big for it. Also there is no guttering or anything, inside the pipe, that would keep it in its place... The Ramhead itself is too big for it to fit in it.
Other than that the quality looks good, quite solid, UV 8 rated (apparently claims by ARB that LLDPE can be higher UV spec are unfounded, 8 is the max that the industry accepts): this matters in these climate. Considering it's a third of the cost of a TJM or ARB one , I am quite pleased.
I ' ll post some pictures if I get round to fit it sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Some advise from someone who has fitted one before would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
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