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Posted : Dec 17, 2006 12:32 PM
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Instead of buying one of the gay looking ARB snorkels, try building your own home made snorkel for your vehicle. If you build your own snorkel, you will save a couple hundred bucks and end up with something that is just as good. Now I'm not talking about building your own diving equipment, that would just be stupid. Though you could probably win some darwin awards with your homemade dive tank made out of a propane tank.
So if your thinking about building your own snorkle, here are some good write-ups that I found useful. I will be posting my own instruction on how I did my friends next week. Were still getting together the materials and deciding whether to do a hummer style snorkel on his jeep, or if we will do an ARB style snorkel
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Jeep Snorkle - Make your own (freecarkits.com)
"I’m not a daily mudder, in fact
hate mud, but I’ve come close to testing the
limits of the current intake system, and it only
takes 2 Tsp of water to destroy an engine. Also,
a cold air system would be nice to have, and I
needed to install the welder too."
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Homebrew 3" ABS Snorkel - Good Looking! (pirate4x4.com)
"The snorkel is basically constructed from 3" flexible aluminum ducting, and 3" ABS pipe."
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Do it Yourself Snorkel Project (bc4x4.com)
"The premise of a snorkel is obvious; move your air intake up higher
by relocating the stock intake. To do this you need to have some kind
of filter box that has both an inlet and an
outlet (to allow filtered air to get to the engine). This needs to all
be connected using air tight fittings. It took me all of an hour to decide on the basic set up."
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Custom Deep Water Air Intake - in cab snorkel (madxj.com)
"After seeing the deep-water snorkels on the market I knew that something like
that was needed. The only thing is that I don't need a snorkel that would
allow the Jeep to cross streams up to its roofline on my daily driver and
the price was a turn off on top of that. So I came up with my own system
for about $11.00."
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Grand Cherokee Snorkel How-To (Jeephorizons.com)
"As
you may know the
snorkel for the Jeep Grand Cherokee is expensive
and hard to
find. I hate to spend my money on parts that cost a lot and give me
little by
way of return.. Meaning, why spend $400 when I can spend $40? So when
it came time to put a snorkel on my rig"
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Do It Yourself Cheap Snorkel (jeepaholics.com)
"Well
I made this snorkel about two years ago now, and I figured since so
many people have asked about it, I would go ahead and do a write up.
Now, as I said, its been a while since I put this together, so the
prices may not be totally accurate, but I pieced it together for around
40 bucks or so."
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I would honestly avoid the ARB style as much as you can, and go for the hummer look. The hummer style snorkel is less prone to damage and is more effective in my opinion. I hope these awesome write-ups I've linked can help you guys.
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